That being so, here’s the million-dollar question: What the hell are they waiting for? Go on, chaps. Bloody well do it.
Seriously, try it. Start the process. Stop whining about it on Twitter, and on HBO, and at the Daily Kos. Stop playing with some Thomas Jefferson quote you found on Google. Stop jumping on the news cycle and watching the retweets and viral shares rack up. Go out there and begin the movement in earnest. Don’t fall back on excuses. Don’t play cheap motte-and-bailey games. And don’t pretend that you’re okay with the Second Amendment in theory, but you’re just appalled by the Heller decision. You’re not. Heller recognized what was obvious to the amendment’s drafters, to the people who debated it, and to the jurists of their era and beyond: That “right of the people” means “right of the people,” as it does everywhere else in both the Bill of Rights and in the common law that preceded it. A Second Amendment without the supposedly pernicious Heller “interpretation” wouldn’t be any impediment to regulation at all. It would be a dead letter. It would be an effective repeal. It would be the end of the right itself. In other words, it would be exactly what you want! Man up. Put together a plan, and take those words out of the Constitution.
"Cliff’s Notes version: Come and take them, you lame fascist fucks." \\Cold Fury
I was thinking about Etta James and found "Shortnin' Bread" which was a wonderful treat. When I was very little my mom used to sing it to me and laugh. We'd sing it together, making our voices real low on the "give those chillens some shortnin' bread". So, with all due respect to Ms. James (whose version is below the jump) I will point out that everybody in the known universe, it seems, has done this song. Kay Kyser, Fats Waller, Spunk Holler Boys, Flatt and Scruggs, Dave Brubeck, Ethel Mertz), the Andrews Sisters, the Blisters (so good I put it below the jump also), the Beach Boys...maybe even Perry Como (it could have happened). The one I had the most fun with is this:
North Hollywood 1969. I played the album over and over -- can still remember the little click where the record had a scratch. Just -- one of the best ever.