RE: The School Shooting in Minneapolis (and the Issue of Gun-Control in the US)
August 28, 2025 at 9:07 pm
It's clear that the only Constitutional right that our right-wing cares about is the right to own a firearm. Speech? Get fired, get arrested. Religion? They'll nail Ten Commandments to the walls and persecute anyone else. Assembly? That's what the National Guard is being used against now. Petition the government? lol!
Wait, there's more. Equal treatment under the law? Well, what's your party affiliation? Cruel and unusual punishment? How does a prison in El Salvador sound to you? And most of all -- and not restricted to our current administration, this shit has been going on for decades now -- unenumerated rights guaranteed by the 9th Amendment? What are those? No one listed those, therefore they don't exist, even though the authors explicitly acknowledge that they might have missed something.
But no, no, they got it all right and what is not enumerated must not matter. So kiss reproductive rights goodbye, freedom of association goodbye, the right to privacy.
The only right these people care about is the right to own a gun, because it makes them feel powerful even as they are just as fucked as any other of us. It's a shame they won't use those guns to protect any other right, but only to feel strong.
Wait, there's more. Equal treatment under the law? Well, what's your party affiliation? Cruel and unusual punishment? How does a prison in El Salvador sound to you? And most of all -- and not restricted to our current administration, this shit has been going on for decades now -- unenumerated rights guaranteed by the 9th Amendment? What are those? No one listed those, therefore they don't exist, even though the authors explicitly acknowledge that they might have missed something.
But no, no, they got it all right and what is not enumerated must not matter. So kiss reproductive rights goodbye, freedom of association goodbye, the right to privacy.
The only right these people care about is the right to own a gun, because it makes them feel powerful even as they are just as fucked as any other of us. It's a shame they won't use those guns to protect any other right, but only to feel strong.
