aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Cherry-picking amendments

The Second Amendment to the US Constitution:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Let it be known that I believe on its face it is cruel and unusual punishment to lock up a kid for life. Any kid for any thing.

But my question here is where is our moral outrage, where are the pundits and plaudits and legal scholars, and where is the organizational equivalent of an NRA in defense of the Eighth Amendment?