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Originally Posted by Slims
What most Americans want is irrelevant. The Constitution guarantees a right to bear arms, and Obama has posted his intention to severely curtail that right on the whitehous.gov website.
The Bill of Rights was put in place, in part, to prevent the "will of the majority" from denying rights to the minority. The preamble to the bill of rights states that the bill of rights simply enumerates rights which are inalienable and no government has the right to take away (nor does a majority of the population). An opinion poll has no impact on that whatsoever.
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What Americans want is absolutely NOT irrelevant...it is at the heart of a representative democracy...as long as it respects the Constitutional rights of the minority.
There is NO absolute right to bear arms...that has been decided.
The extent to which that right can be restricted or regulated is a matter for the "people" to express their will, the legislature to act, and the judiciary to be the final ejudicator.
Oh..and polls are another expression of opinion...just as a protest march.