Children have met a violent end, nothing particularly out of the ordinary there. Only the other day ten girls were killed by an old mine, have we (the UK) or anybody else outlawed mines or scatter-munitions? No.
Is not the murder of the innocents as old as Christmas itself?
It will take much more than a reappraisal of the US Constitution to make life precious. We all, you and me, allow this to go on, and so encourage yet more of it.
What can I do? You may ask, or you may have already unconsciously shrugged your shoulders.
You can register to vote and be ready to vote, or we can all be stuck on the first item in the list below.
I have long admired the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the USA, the so called right to roll-up ones sleeves (or some such).
Unsurprisingly, the roots of this stem from the Prods vs Papists, or Papists vs Prods shenanigans in England and the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
"In no particular order, early American settlers viewed the right to arms and/or the right to bear arms and/or state militias as important for one or more of these purposes:
deterring undemocratic government;
repelling invasion;
suppressing insurrection;
facilitating a natural right of self-defense;
participating in law enforcement;
enabling the people to organize a militia system."*
"In no particular order" as the author has it, but it is the first item on his list that has struck me as being the sticking point, the point on which the President's efforts may well founder.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_ConstitutionIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
