Reply #7: After over half a century of using the 14th Amendment as a bulwark of civil rights... [View All]

[SteveM]

legislation and court cases, some "civil rights" advocates have catastrophic memory loss when it comes to the right to keep and bear arms. That has never ceased to amaze me, and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of not only the 14th, but also the entire purpose of the Constitution.

This is where "conservatives" have a legitimate bone to pick with so-called liberals: Amendments (and cases which flow from them) are cited only when it serves a government policy deemed "desirable;" if an amendment gets in the way, ignore it or declare it "obsolete" or "dead letter."