Is it too early to start thinking about "activism" for the presidential November election? Jacob Sullum at Reason outlines a reason why we might want to get active (especially if you know people in "swing states"... I mean, Hawaii's popular votes and electoral college votes are a foregone conclusion...). #NeverHillary?
Hillary Clinton's Second Amendment: Why abolish it when you can ignore it?
http://reason.com/archives/2016/05/25/hillary-clintons-second-amendmentExcerpts:
Accepting the National Rifle Association's endorsement last week, Donald Trump warned that Hillary Clinton "wants to abolish the Second Amendment." CNN corrected him, noting that Clinton "has never called for the abolition of the 2nd Amendment."
Although that's technically true, Clinton has done what amounts to the same thing. She has interpreted the Second Amendment so narrowly that it imposes no practical limits on gun control laws, and that interpretation is sure to guide her Supreme Court nominations if she is elected president.
On the same day that Trump addressed the NRA, one of Clinton's policy advisers told Bloomberg Politics the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee disagrees with District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 decision in which the Supreme Court overturned the District's handgun ban. The adviser, Maya Harris, said, "Clinton believes Heller was wrongly decided in that cities and states should have the power to craft
commonsense laws [empahsis added] to keep their residents safe." [I.e. Banning firearms by cosmetic features ala
Friedman, banning bearing arms for self defense ala Hawaii, etc..]
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Rather than trim her policy agenda to fit the Constitution, Clinton wants to trim the Constitution to fit her policy agenda. "We have to make this a voting issue," she says. I agree.