5 thoughts on “First We Have To Hide The Flag From Schoolkids”

  1. Is the country becoming an insane asylum?

    No. In an insane asylum the inmates don’t run actually run it.

  2. I’m speechless only because I can’t type as fast or as LOUD as I can scream and cuss!

  4. Well, the acceptance of sexual discrimination in the Constitution is one issue worth mentioning. As is the blatant and obvious untruth in the Declaration: “All men are created equal”.

    There is the obvious problem of linguistic shift; “well-regulated” means something very different now from what it meant at the time when the Second Amendment was drafted. I’m sure there are other examples of this sort of problem. Further on the subject of the Second Amendment, in those days the amount of damage doable by someone running amok with a gun was severely limited compared to a similar situation now – because of technological change.

    I am not an American; but perhaps the 2nd Amendment ought to be taken in its entirety, and the right to bear arms coupled with an obligation to train properly with them? After all, that approach works for Switzerland – and in the USA as almost everywhere else on Earth, one is required to train and pass a test before being allowed to drive a car in public. The lethality of a car and of a bolt-action rifle are probably quite similar, and perhaps a similar approach would therefore work.

    The “freedom of religion” clause IMHO ought to specifically exclude religions that clash in fundamental ways with the rest of the Constitution; the obvious example of this is Islam, which is a legal system completely different from that of the USA as well as a religion – and the two are inseparable.

    The rather long delay between election and inauguration of the President is yet another example.

    The real point is that the Constitution is now over two hundred years old, and the world has changed a great deal in very many ways since then. Perhaps it needs looking at.

  5. “Further on the subject of the Second Amendment, in those days the amount of damage doable by someone running amok with a gun was severely limited compared to a similar situation now – because of technological change.”

    Of course this argument could apply to the 1st amendment, and probably the 3rd (the typical US house circa 2010 could easily accommodate couple soldiers vs. the typical house of 1780). I suspect a reasonable case could be made for others. But the authors made a specific mechanism for changing the Constitution, which is why the president takes office 2 months after election now vs. 5 months it was until the 1930’s iir, and why women, and 18 year-olds can vote, etc..

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