When moving to DC a few months back, I took the opportunity to get rid of a lot of junk I’d been accumulating over the years. Old magazines went in the trash and some clothing which no longer fit went to charity.

Perhaps it’s time we apply this logic to our government, too. Today’s AJC shows us just how we can accomplish such a constitutional house cleaning.

For example, the First Amendment - which guarantees the rights to freedom of religion, speech, the press, peaceful assembly and to petition for redess of grievances - is so often misunderstood by government, the courts and the people that we’d probably all be better off if it were simply repealed. Few people really understand anymore why it might be necessary to “assemble” anyway, and who worries in this day and age about something as arcane as a “redress of grievances”?

Then take the Second Amendment - that pesky sentence constantly getting in the way of efforts by big city mayors in New York, Washington, San Francisco and elsewhere to disarm the populace. Insofar as many government officials view the clause as applicable simply to a “militia” - which they in turn believe we no longer need because, after all, we have the military and the police nowadays to “protect” us - wouldn’t it greatly simplify their jobs to just repeal the amendment?

Once we’ve finished this task, we can focus on the really important things in life. As the author suggests, “Now back to Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith.”

From US Libertarian Party

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