05-16-2019, 02:19 PM
(05-16-2019, 01:20 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: On this we have to 100% disagree as the right to own a firearm is expressly stated in the second amendment. It's very black and white and is also the only amendment that definitively states that it "shall not be infringed". There is, obviously no mention of abortion in any way shape of form in any amendment.
We would definitely have to disagree, because the interpretation of this right has changed over the decades since its drafting. Its application has not been static as the courts have introduced different interpretations, even to the point at which Scalia's opinion in Heller still disagrees with you as it states that the right is not unlimited, meaning it can be infringed.
It may very well seem black and white, but that's not the way our government looks at it. This is why these civil liberties are almost entirely rooted in judicial interpretation.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
