Kansas City News Cartel Demands: Repeal Second Amendment

We notice that newspaper posted this screed but then thought better of it and seemingly deleted their sketchy syndication. 

Fun fact, the New York Times ran this same kind of editorial from the author in 2018 and it was rightfully & casually dismissed.

Sadly, now the local prog blogs are throwing this scrap content toward Kansas City, 

Here's the basics and then a link to the whole thing . . .

What we need  are rules and regulations like those we apply to motor vehicles: Minimum age limits, effective training and licensing, uniform registration and licensing of the firearms, along with laws requiring proper safe storage thereof. Improper use, handling or storage of guns (including the threat of bodily harm to others) would be subject to confiscation of the firearms and possible legal action against the owner.

Obviously, anyone who harms or kills another with a firearm without a valid self-defense argument is subject to criminal prosecution.

As for assault weapons such as the AR-15 and 50-caliber weapons, these have no legitimate use in the civilian world, any more than tanks do. They need to be restricted to the military alone.

Some have argued that vehicles are not protected by the Constitution, whereas firearms are. This is a bogus argument. Just as the framers of the Constitution did not foresee the ubiquity of motor vehicles, neither did they anticipate the technological revolution in firearms that makes mass shootings so much a part of our reality today.

John Paul Stevens, a former justice on the Supreme Court, argued in 2018 that we should repeal the Second Amendment with these words:

“Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.

“That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

“Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that ‘a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.’ Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

To break stalemate on guns in Kansas and U.S., let's look at how we license and regulate vehicles - Kansas Reflector

Most of us drive cars or small trucks or motorcycles. To enjoy this privilege, we must do numerous things, some of which cost money.

You decide . . .