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One is a right that shall not be infringed, and the other one is a state-regulated privilege (at least for operating the machine on public roads).
Very simple to understand actually. You can't put paywalls in front of rights, so this will be dunked right down the shitter if it passes, by the courts.
historically the courts have allowed many restrictions to the second amendment, its only modern revisionism thats reinterpreted "well regulated militia" as "literally anyone except felons" and "the right to bear arms" as "gun companies have a right to unrestricted gun sales"
Oh don't worry, they're revising that part too. They want no limits whatsoever. They want felons to have guns.
The irony that the establishment considers the boom-boom death sticks as a "right" and the quite-literally-required car for modern society is a "privilege."
You should need to have insurance for your stupid yee-yee adventures to shoot the melanin-enriched customers at a Walmart..
What a childish response. Your opinion is garbage.
Rights are something that nobody should ever agree to give up - especially a critical right that enables effective self-defense to the common citizen.
Fortunately there's nothing you can do about it, as that right at least is well protected by law and the courts.
You can still buy, own, and shoot it. You just need to pay insurance (a very small one at that) to carry it around outside w/ you.
The LW motto should be "your opinion is garbage" because there is clearly no sane argument to be made against this law
That's just the current reading of the 2nd though. The court, as Dobbs clearly shows, can easily reverse precedent. What's interesting is that the conservative side of the SCOTUS is currently so wedded to originalism and "historical practice," which puts them in a bit of a bind since the 2nd as an absolute right to bear arms in self-defense is purely a 20th century doctrine with little or no real antecedents in the 18th and 19th centuries. I expect they'll find a way around it regardless, thus further lowering their legitimacy in the eyes of the American people.