mrreynolds

NEWS RELEASE

BELLEVUE, WA – The Chicago Tribune’s call for repeal of the Second Amendment following the historic Heller Decision is an “unconscionable attack on the entire Bill of Rights and the freedoms it protects,” the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

In an editorial published on the day after the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 ruling, the newspaper called the Second Amendment an “anachronism” that should be repealed. The newspaper supported its argument by falsely claiming that a 1939 case, U.S. v Miller, established the amendment as a “collective right” that applied only to service in some type of militia.

“The Chicago Tribune’s editors have demonstrated an appalling short-sightedness,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “If they are so willing to abandon one civil right for an entire class of American citizens, what’s next? Perhaps they would strip some citizens of their First Amendment rights to free speech or religion. Heaven help us should the Chicago Tribune editorial board one day decide that they don’t care for the editorial slant of their competitors at the Sun-Times, and call for a restriction on that newspaper’s freedom of the press.

“Once you make it acceptable to destroy one civil right,” Gottlieb observed, “it does not take a very big leap to embrace limitations on, or the abolition of, another civil right.

“Not once, in all the years that gun rights organizations have been vilified in the editorial columns of the Tribune and other newspapers did anyone from the firearms community suggest we should repeal the First Amendment,” he stated. “Unlike elitist newspaper editors, gun owners understand that the Bill of Rights is an all-or-nothing document, not a civil rights buffet from which we can pick and choose the rights we want to enjoy and those for which we have no stomach.

“We have always known the Second Amendment affirmed an individual civil right, and a truly objective reading of history by the Chicago Tribune would – if they had any notion of objectivity – lead them to the same conclusion,” Gottlieb concluded. “A generation of parents and grandparents of those now writing such nonsense in the Tribune risked, and all too frequently lost their lives to defend all of the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights. The Tribune editors may as well just spit on their graves.”

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deadeye72

Do they not realize that it is that same 2nd amendment that protects their precious freedom of speech? Without the 2nd, the other amendments with vanish very quickly. What morons.

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StevePVB

The really bad news is that we have four Supreme Court justices that agree. Does this year's election mean anything????

SammyIamToday

Let them try to amend it out of the Constitution. They'll never get 2/3rds majority for it because most of the states in this country aren't full of retards.

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falcon1

Oh, they both realize it...it's just that neither of them care.

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SelfDefense

Have you been to California?

CR2008

A lot of patriots did not die serving this country so these same morons could trip such rights away... If this sort of thing ever happened in the future, censorship and other things with the quality of a dictatorship will surely follow.

Thank goodness for the fact that these pinko communist scum never were in the position to formulate the constitution during American Independence... Thank goodness! If they hate the fact that Americans have such rights, these POS should move to Cuba or China.

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TravisABQ

I think it's GREAT!

After all these years of the Antis claiming that their agenda was not a total ban, the mask is off, they reveal their monster face, and they are screaming and gnashing their teeth advocating repeal of part of the Bill of Rights.

Scratch an anti, find a fascist.

Tweak them a little more and we can goad them into admitting they would love to herd people into extermination camps.

--Travis--

airslot

If your an AMERICAN in Chicago, CANCEL YOU SUBSCRIPTION!!!
If your an AMERICAN ADVERTISER in Chicago, CANCEL YOUR CONTRACT.
Hit em where it counts. IN THEIR WALLET.
Lets figure out who the parent corp. is and CANCEL THEM ALL.???

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goawayfarm

They won't have to amend it.........all they have to do is get ONE MORE LIBERAL SUPREME COURT JUSTICE! Then they can declare it un-Constitutional..........remember, we only won by ONE (5-4 split).

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