"I can't believe we're so lazy and defeated as to live like this. Not a nation of cowards. Just a nation of bored narcissists and cynics, biting our nails and waiting and playing the odds. No one will ever believe that we let this happen because of idle violent fantasies, an industry lobby, and our obsession with what long-dead men believed within an utterly different reality. Parsing centuries-old words in abstraction while the state bleeds out."
I've been think this over Marlo has a point.
"long-dead men believed within an utterly different reality." He's right, the Bill of Rights was made in 1789 but today it's stupid. We need a guy like J. Edgar Hoover again. What's this Miranda rights crap. You think Elliot Ness cleaned up Chicago the last time according Hoyle? Chicago is one of the murder capitals now. Let's bust down some doors, kick some ass. I got your search warrant right here. You have the right to remain silent if you are dead. No more 2nd Amendment and let's get rid of the Fifth Amendment as well.
"Idle violent fantasies." [IVF] Let's stop video games that the kids play and all these bloody murders in Movies are idle violent fantasies. It all started when Clark Gable said "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." So let's cut back the 1st Amendment, at least that part.
Talk about IVF [things sound better if you can come up initials] most of the mass killings are done by people who are crazy and want to get one point across, often just that they are pissed. Go out in a flash and make the evening new nation wide. Were going to have to take another small piece out of the 1st Amendment. TV stations can only report it happened in a short statement and not give the name or picture of the person. He's usually dead anyway, if he's not that can be fixed by the first paragraph above.
The Tenth Amendment is already gone de facto so we don't have to worry about that one. We'll leave the Religious part of the 1st Amendment alone for now.
The Second Amendment just needs to be gone, no need to parse "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." Did I quote that right, doesn't matter it's going to be gone anyway.
No worries about "an industry lobby" they can only influence Congress. We'll just do everything by executive order. Congress can be bought, but as long as we have Progressive Democrats as president they will set a new standard for transparency. The rest of the Bill or Rights and some parts of the larger document written by the long dead men from a different time can be decided by executive action as needed. Yeah some of the rural people kill a deer, duck or quale or something for food, but when we go to tofu and artificial meat to save the planet we there will be no need for guns for hunting. As the deer population soars we will run over them with our electric cars.
Marlo for president.