• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    You can’t undo the 2nd amendment, there are over 400 million guns in the country.

    The fact that there are only 11 deaths per year on a population of 400 million guns shows just how insignificant the problem is.

    It’s not even a “1 in a million” kind of thing.

    It’s a 1 in 36 million kind of thing.

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      9 days ago

      It seems Trump has no problem advocating for undoing the 14th Amendment to ban birthright citizenship. If he does that, I see no problem undoing the 2nd Amendment.

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        9 days ago

        Yeah, no amendment can be undone in the current climate.

        Doing it requires 290 votes in the House, a body that last needed 15 tries to get a 218 vote simple majority to decide who their own leader will be.

        Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate, a body that’s blocked from doing anything by a 60 vote majority to break a filibuster.

        If by some miracle, both of those things happen, then the change needs to be ratified by 38 states.

        In the last election, Trump won 31 states, so he’d need 7 Harris states to back him on repealing an amendment. Aint happening.