Kellyanne's Fake Constitutional Rock

"The Second Amendment is a bedrock principle of our Constitution..." Kellyanne Conway Dear Kellyanne, Thanks so much for standing in for the apparently unavailable and dull, predictable Constitutional lawyers, and the U.S. historians, and also the legal philosophers of social justice and moral ethics with your own fresh minority opinion of one NRA wanna-be lobbyist. Before I saw your latest entry in the OutRageous JunkNews competition, which has become more hotly contested as of post-Trumpian patriotic late, I had actually, you know, read, once or twice, what the Constitution itself has to say about what are its own bedrock principles. Here are our bottom-line goals as stated in the Preamble itself: 1. "to form a more perfect Union" which would probably leave out most forms of investment in domestically competing violence, fear-mongering, and even anti-feminist anger-mongering. 2. "justice" which does not seem to be later defined as private and public sector arms racing to see who can first acquire the most or biggest or fattest or fastest or longest ballistic toys. 3. "Tranquility" with a capital T not a capitol Trump Business As Competitively Usual as you might spell that word, a synonym, here, for Peace, with a capital and capitol P, for Please could you get over your unprincipled verbal garbage for just one contemplative retreat, it would do you, and possibly those around you, so much ecotherapeutic good. 4. "common defence" Not spelled UnCommon Offense amongst our otherwise Unioning selves, so specifically, explicitly, clearly, transparently excluding domestic rights to bear ballistic arms, not even talking about knives, or sling shots, or those really big rubber bands that my brother used to snap me with on the back of my own patriotically stiff Republican redneck. Which is why we had to have a Second Amendment because the bedrock principles of the Constitution explicitly exclude what we had to include in the Second Amendment, because, unlike the First Amendment, which actually is, arguably, redundant with remaining bedrock principles, the Second Amendment most extravagantly and democratically and transparently clearly is NOT also intending to necessarily: "promote general Welfare" "Liberty" to the signers and us, and our "Posterity" kids too which are the real original health care giving and receiving framework, or bedrock, for the standard democratic justice terminology of that time, as well as our own post-millennial time and mental space and nation growing regenerative place, and not so much over-investment in degenerative ballistics. So, if by "bedrock principle" you mean seminal values of the Signers' Historically Manifest Intent, on one side of recorded history you have the Preamble then the Body of the Constitution then the First Amendment. Then you have the "Oops, British rights of citizens to own self-defensive armaments within unspecified borders, which, by the way, did not necessarily include the right to bear arms across state lines, or even county lines, or even outside one's own village, or even outside one's own home, but, regardless, is hopelessly outweighed in the competition for "Most Bedrocked Constitutional Principle for Preserving this More Perfect Domestic Union" by most anything on the Preambling list above. Which, actually, I think is good news for you. Because if the right to shoot at each other were a bedrock principle rather than the responsibility to play nice, and talk non-violently correctly as compassionately, and cooperate with as much good-humor as bicamerally possible, then your own enfranchised health, happiness, and matriotic prosperity would be in some serious LeftBrain-RightWing fascist ****, counter-historically speaking. By the way, did you happen to notice the Constitution's summary remarks? just before the last Article on Ratification, "...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." What is not defined is the difference, if any, between a religion and idol or icon worship. When I read bedrock justice and peace principles, and think about them, and grow passion about them as explicitly documented Constitutional original historical intent, and then I read your statement that the Second Amendment isn't really an amendment at all, it's more of a gun-toting religious faith in Up Yours! Better Government Through Ballistics! it makes me have second thoughts about how far we can reasonably stretch the First Amendment, to protect non-violent and co-responsible and informed speech to also cover religious allegiance to violence and irresponsible blabber.