Do you believe the Bill of Rights is outdated and should be either dropped in its entirety or at least rewritten?

Too many responses...won't read them (no offense) as to not be influenced by other's opinions.

Leave it as is. Tell your goddaughter that the "Bill of Rights" are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, if she wants the "Bill of Rights" to be amended or dropped all together, we would have to look at all the other amendments as well, such as the revocation of slavery, or the right to vote for women and minorities.....not sure she would be as keen with that.

She needs to actual read the history/learn the history behind the "Bill of Rights" and why the were established, and maybe she would understand why they created in the first place. It was the simple fact (though there were many causes leading up to this point) that the British were going to confiscate firearms that the Revolution went into a Hot status....would she rather be British or American?...the British didn't think we "needed" to have them....and the colonists wanted them and believed they needed them.

You should pose the question to her why she thinks no one "needs" to have a handgun, or a firearm in general. The only way you might get her to be neutral on the subject is for her to actually give her logic, and if there are holes in that logic, to show her where those holes are.

I have a very liberal friend who's anti-gun period. Then I ask him if I should be able to have one and then he says yes, because I have been trained...(first hole in his logic) and he starts giving excuses....I ask him if someone should be able to have one for home protection, then he says maybe....very few are people are "absolute" anything......just have to expose it to them......another example (not trying to start another debate)...if someone is pro-choice.....ask them if a person should be allowed to have an abortion 1 minute before giving birth...if the answer is no, they're not an absolute pro-choicer. Then ask what about 5 minutes, 1 week, 1 month....ask what's the difference between the 3 month mark and 3 month 1 day mark.....etc.....catch my drift how to have a convo with something contentious/highly charged such as that? Make them defeat their own argument.

I am always troubled by the attacks on both the 1st and 2nd Amendments. imho, both sides are wrong on this...

Any laws that old need to be updated, including the 2nd. Unstable people shouldn't be able to get their hands on weapons capable of the kind of massacres we've seen in recent years.

Several others have posted solid responses regarding the Bill of Rights, so anything I would say would be redundant. I do have a question, however: I'm new here and so far this is the most thoughtful question that I have seen asked, and being military forum, the sum of the responses here is/was a forgone conclusion. Do we go deeper here? Just curious...

Your grand daughter's view is exactly why the Bill of Rights is so hard to amend. We have plenty of people that would willingly give up freedoms hard fought for to a government out of control.

The first amendment does not guarantee freedom from religion it ensures freedom of religion. As you can see today, religion, in this country, is under assault non stop. It needs to be protected.

We can only hope to survive a generation as out of touch as the current one. A lack of instruction in the Constitution and Bill of Rights as well as other organic documents and historical content has gotten us here.

Seems redundant to even say it. The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, advanced weapons technology, or anything like that. It's there to make sure the citizens of this country always have the ability, should it be needed, to replicate what our forefathers did. To throw off the yoke of tyranny and oppression by our own government.

As to the 1st Amendment, I'd ask how does the guarantee of a religious person to worship as they see fit detract from or prevent an athiest's unbelief?

There are provisions for changing the amendments. If people want them changed... they can exercise their rights to try to do so.

My limited knowledge of world history, b and c in world civ on college, led me to believe countries which turn from their founding ideals fall. Is this incorrect? Must we repeat what so many before us have done?

Our youth are not just being sold a load of crap but are buying it with the currency of warrior blood. She needs to visit battlefields and veteran grave sites, study the history of countries without our freedoms to see what can happen without the Bill of Rights. Better yet, go to some of them to see, hear, and smell it for herself.

I have so much more to say, but feel it wouldn't matter to her generation. It's scary to see and hear what they believe and are willing to give away. Very sad too.

Too much blood was lost for the Bill of Rights plain and simple.