Salon.com profiles the Second Amendment repealists, including at least one special snowflake candidate for Congress.

So, the next time you hear someone say that “nobody’s talking about taking your gun rights” with a straight face, you can point them this way and know they are full of fecal matter.

Sorry, we’re not linking to these folks any more.  You’ll have to google the story if you want to read it.

Inevitability or pipe dream?: Meet the Second Amendment repealists

A handful of people are taking gun control activism a step further. Is anyone listening?

“Why is nothing happening?” Katie Couric asked filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig in the aftermath of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, after Congress failed to pass reasonable gun control legislation supported by more than 90 percent of Americans. In response, Soechtig made “Under the Gun,” one of an unprecedented four firearm-centric films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

But anybody who has spent any time in the gun control effort already knows the answer to Couric’s question. Nothing happens because the Second Amendment stands in the way.

Thanks to Supreme Court precedent set by the Scalia-led majority decision in 2008’s Heller v. Washington, which decided the right to bear arms applies to individuals for self-defense in the home, most activists are forced to give up dreams of assault weapon bans and magazine limits and play small ball: closing loopholes and expanding background checks, Heller-friendly measures that, an AP review found, will not keep guns from mass shooters. Even Karl Rove says that the only way to stop shootings would be to repeal the Second Amendment.

Some people are trying to do it.

In Stanislaus County, California, out in rancher country where carrying a firearm is a necessity to guard against man-eating feral hogs if not a tyrannical government, Mike Barkley knocks on the doors of Ammon Bundy-types and tries to convince them to send him to Congress so he can “shut down the gun madness and make guns a privilege, not a right.”

…Barkley stresses that his plan does not call for confiscation. It would simply replace the current Second Amendment with a new one, much the same but with new wording that allows for more innovative legislation. For example, he wants a tax placed on each firearm per household.

Kinda like a poll tax.  Or a literacy test before voting.  Keep those undesirables from exercising their constitutional rights, right?

Barkley estimates that only one in a thousand voters gives him a hard time. “For most of the people I speak with,” he says, “guns are not a priority.” Maybe six voters out of 100,000 have been supportive of his plan, he says.

Maybe six voters of 100,000 support his plan?  That sounds like a clue that Mr. Barkley is flippantly ignoring.

If you search Amazon for a book about repealing the Second Amendment, you will find exactly two options, and neither from a mainstream publisher. The most recent is Lee Goodman’s “Too Many Rights and Too Many Guns: Repealing the Second Amendment to Make America Safer and More Free“ (2015, Professional Education Resource Corporation).

Goodman is a Chicago-area attorney and 2004 congressional candidate who has founded an organization, Peaceful Communities, to “educate, agitate and organize to repeal the Second Amendment.”

And they profile Illinois’ very own village rocket surgeon, Lee Goodman.  I’ve spoken with Mr. Goodman personally.  He instantly rejected an opportunity to appear at a Guns Save Life meeting to discuss and debate his extremist viewpoint on the Second Amendment.

I guess he’s too busy demanding grocery stores post dangerous signs on their doors.

Goodman says that aside from having to stare down the expected hostile crowds and thinly veiled threats from gun rights supporters, he has mostly found a receptive audience.

Receptive audience?  Having ten or twenty people turn out in a metropolitan area of ten million is “mostly receptive”?

If he were that influential, national chains wouldn’t tell his group to go pound sand.  From Guns Save Life:

It would seem that these social justice warriors have given up on Kroger and Staples, having been told by these chains to go pound sand – lots and lots of sand.  Closer to home, despite multiple appearances by Goodman’s insane clown posse last fall, Mariano’s told them to go urinate into a stiff breeze as well.

Yep.  Shop where you see the sign.  And you too can be present when the store turns into a crime scene.

Got blood?  These two walked right past the sign in the door photographed in the picture above it and tried to rob the place this past winter.