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When that second amendment was written and you did the analysis of it, we were talking

about the likelihood that a person could purchase a muzzle-loading musket.

We are now talking about virtual military weapons that can kill hundreds of innocent people.

It is a much different circumstance.

One of the chances that Dick Durbin knows what end of the rifle the bullet comes out of,

right around zero probably.

And by the way, wasn't it just last week that the media reminded us that Mike Pence was

man-splaining to Kamala Harris.

And yet here's a politician who's been in office since the 1970s, very few accomplishments,

acting like Amy Coney Barrett, who's a gun owner by the way, doesn't know anything about

firearms.

Was that man-splaining?

Why don't we just retire that phrase forever?

I would agree.

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