Warp wrote:
> Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>>         I think you're assuming that the ban will be sudden. Make it happen
>> slowly (over, say, 2 decades), and the outcome may be quite muted.
> 
>   I don't think it's possible to repeal an amendment over the span of
> 2 decades. It's instantaneous: At one moment the amendment is valid,
> the next moment it has been repealed. I don't think there's any middle
> ground there.
> 
>   It happened with the 18th (in December 5th 1933, to be exact).

I think Neeum meant a slow ban on guns in spite of constitutional 
protections. For example, it's now very difficult to own machine guns, in 
spite of the 2nd amendment not giving them special treatment.

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