Any links to that ‘slip’? Once again, that is NRA fear-mongering - remember Obama taking away all the guns and putting gun owners in FEMA camps? Me neither, as it didn’t happen...
Re ‘respect their wishes’, that’s why they leave a legal framework, Constitution, and Judiciary - people (be they States, cities, groups, or individuals) can’t just say stuff and expect it to be so, such as ‘we’re going to secede if you do something we don’t like’; if that is a valid premise, what’s to stop Cities leaving States?
I’m sure a lot of Americans think our NHS is a Socialist single-payer conspiracy, but I can live with that, rather than being one of the 600k who get bankrupted each year by medical bills (in the USA).
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tbf, Republicans in SC have form for this sort of thing (putting forward Bills that have no chance - they have recently put foward SC H3473
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Make Application By The State Of South Carolina Under Article V Of The United States Constitution For A Convention Of The States To Be Called Restricted To Propose An Amendment To The United States Constitution To Impose Fiscal Restraints On The Federal Government Through A Balanced Budget Amendment.
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Amusing, coming from a State that receives 8 times the amount of money from the US Governnment than it pays in Federal Taxes.