Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: The alignments that led to the Civil War are still evident in U.S. politics, including in our paralysis over gun violence.
The South insisted that the Constitution endorsed slavery while the North argued that the Founders envisioned freedom as the national rule and merely tolerated a temporary exception for the Southern states.Those who now call themselves “originalists” and claim to be the true arbiters of what the Founders intended — on guns and everything else — willfully ignore the political brawls throughout our history over the meaning and spirit of the words put on paper in 1787.
It is maddening and heartbreaking that our country is so deeply mired in the past that we are incapable of regulating weapons whose ferocity our Founders couldn’t have imagined. The fight for sane gun laws is, first, about the innocent lives extinguished by the failure of our politics. But it is also about moving, at last, into a more humane future.
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