Originally published at: Ronald Reagan on Gun Control circa 1989 | Boing Boing
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Reagan was a major proponent of the original gun control movement because it was in response to armed Black Panthers patrolling in Oakland. The Mulford Act.
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Lionised though he is by conservatives, and as steeped as his ideological fellows in “free”-market fundamentalism and racism, St. Ronnie would still be considered too liberal by most modern GOP voters.
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For whatever it’s worth Reagan was less insulated from gun violence than most conservative politicians given how John Hinckley Jr.’s access to a handgun nearly ended Reagan’s life.
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Even Scalia in Heller said that some restrictions on gun ownership would be constitutional. "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited . . . the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” This idea that the 2nd Amendment precludes any and all restrictions or regulations on any firearm ownership is relatively recent. And it’s preposterous.
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The modern Republican party has explicitly turned on some of “St. Ronnie’s” advocated policies, describing them as socialist/communist. It would be funny if it weren’t so horrifying.
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