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On the recordJuly 26, 2022
Now, do our colleagues really believe that the Constitution explicitly and repeatedly gives the government the power to suppress violent insurrections but the Second Amendment in invisible ink gives the people the right to engage in violent insurrections?
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin questions the logic of the Second Amendment allowing insurrection.

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