A Modest Proposal: Repeal the 2nd 4th and 5th Amendments

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As this is written, many are calling for much stricter gun laws.  Given that us honest gun control advocates will admit that they believe that in order to accomplish any significant reduction is firearms deaths, nearly all of America's 360 million guns will have to be confiscated, it is clear that the 2nd Amendment has to be repealed (or just ignored).  After all, Columbine was committed with two handguns and a pump shotgun - so doing away with so called assault weapons won't solve the problem.  Given how often background checks have failed, expanding them won't cut it either.

We just have to accept the fact that freedoms cost lives.  That's why were have to do away with with not only the 2nd Amendment, but the 4th and 5th Amendments too.  Clearly, we can never confiscate 90%+ of those 360 millions guns without door to door warrantless searches.  Those cannot be conducted under the 4th Amendment, so that has to go.  Plus we cannot possibly handle all the court cases that these confiscations will generate - so we have to do away with the 5th Amendment too.

However, we should not think of this as a bad thing.  There are many other advantages to doing away with these pesky civil rights protections.  In fact, many more lives could be saved if police could just search anyone, any time.  Just look at this chart:

Since in order to achieve our gun control goals, we need to repeal the 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendments, we should make the most of our new ability to search where and when we want.  Drugs are killing far more Americans than firearm assaults.  Repealing or just ignoring these rights would save most of those 52,000+ people who die from drug overdoses.  We can take away their drugs and stop them from killing themselves.

Just think of the lives than could be saved and the crimes that could be prevented if only these so called freedoms were done away with.  Think of how rapidly the police could respond if they could see what is happening behind closed doors.  Since we will need to do away with these amendments in order to make gun confiscation work, it just makes sense to make the most of these new found abilities

Just think of what we could do on this front.  We already can place surveillance cameras anywhere we wish in public - think of how many lives we could save if we required them in every room of every home?   We could stop domestic violence, even when no one reports it.  We could prevent suicides by seeing people preparing to do so.  Privacy costs lives!!!

Sure, it will take a while to get the people on board with all this - but going after guns first is the perfect way to do it.  Not only do we get people used to the idea, even if they want to resist, they will have no way of doing so.  We just have to make sure they don't realize that seizing guns is only the first step.