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T99: RE: women voting was prohibited by the US constitution.
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Not completely true...it was a state decision. There was some wording in the constitution that some states felt allowed for men only to vote...but this point is non-applicative to this debate. Also this was a human rights issue as opposed to a civil rights issue that guns fall under.
Less than 1 year ago the US Supreme Court ruled that the banning of handguns was unconstitutional in DC. This fight has been waged many times...and it keeps coming up with blanks.
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3. The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to self-defense) violate the Second Amendment . The District’s total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of “arms” that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html
So unless the President/Congress/House and the SC all go against the wishes of the citizens....there will be no amendments to the US constitution as far as the right to bear arms.
Now i agree that there is NO neeed for assault rifles and similar weapons to be available to the average joe.
No problem with the second amendment myself tho...and i hate guns.