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The armed forces all vowed to uphold the constitution.Shooting at or disarming the citizenry isn't going to fly with them.

Gun owners tend to be more in touch with history than non-gun owners.

I am not going to the gallows without a fight, are you?

Communication is better, faster today then back then. (Even with the crap on social media)

Communication is better, faster today then back then. (Even with the crap on social media)

Once the tide of public opinion has turned among the majority of American voters. It might take less than a year to repeal the 2'nd Amendment.

There is a big difference between enacting a new amendment (18th..your reference) and repealing that amendment later (21st). The 2nd Amendment is part of our Bill of Rights. That makes it an integral part of what makes our country unique. These first ten amendments are rights that we the people are guaranteed. At some point there may be severe restrictions as to where we the people can exorcise those rights, but in order for our republic to survive, those rights must remain sacrosanct. If not, we will no long remain a United States.

Those in charge will just call you a terrorist. That's all they need for a check in the box.

There is a place and time for the citizens to take up arms against their government.

The Jews had every moral right to fight for their lives in Europe when the Nazis were slaughtering them by the millions.

Every citizen of an occupied nation was right to combat the new German government.

But only a lunatic would advocate initiating combat against US Armed Forces simply because his views are becoming unpopular among the population at large.

A repeal of the 2'nd will not happen this year or next. My personal prediction is, the 2'nd Amendment might have another fifty years left in it.

But as more lunatics squawk about armed insurrection, the 2'nd amendment becomes less and less popular.

The 18'th Amendment was presented by Congress on 12-18-1917. It was ratified and became law less than 13 months later on 1-16-1919.

The 21'st Amendment, to repeal the 18'th, was presented 2-20-1933. And ratified less than ten months later on 12-5-1933.

Once the tide of public opinion has turned among the majority of American voters. It might take less than a year to repeal the 2'nd Amendment.

The Second Amendment is more than a mere amendment to the Constitution. It's foundational to the legitimacy of the government the Constitution brought into existence, absent which (therefore) said government ceases to be legitimate. You see, the reason it's not a mere amendment is that it's actually one of the ten planks of the Bill of Rights, absent which the Constitution would not have been ratified in the first place, i.e., it was ratified on the condition that a Bill of Rights would be attached, which stipulation all parties agreed to, one of which plank was required to have been a statement regarding the right of the people to keep and bear arms being inviolate. The amendment process was merely the method by which they chose to attach the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

So, is it your contention that the "Bill of Rights" is immune somehow from being amended?

Care to expound on the legal theory behind that?