It is starting to really blow my mind (actually I am not surprised at all) that when our government is actually working as it is designed to, the Dems and the Left call it shameful and broken and are disappointed. Yesterday the Senate voted on a bill with amendments to expand and add restrictions on guns and the second amendment, and voted them all down. Let that sink in. The Senate, with a majority of Democrats, brought up a bill written by Democrats, and it was defeated with votes. Amazing. Those 50+ who are on the right side of this issue voted “no” for their constituents, the constitution or both. Those 40+ who voted yes, did so not to “save even one child” as so many of them said, but as a continuation of the Liberal/Progressive/Democratic war against private gun ownership and the constitutional right to do so. They are however in favor of the arming and over arming of every and any government agency. Another problem and another discussion for another day. So, many on the left, for weeks, have been calling for a vote. Give the bill a vote! Let the children have a vote! For the children! They were scared of a filibuster. The filibuster was averted. And, well, they got their vote. And, they lost. Now they are sad. Some are even mad. They really didn’t want a vote, they wanted an outcome. They are sad and mad because the vote didn’t turn out how they wanted it to. I know how they feel. Barack Obama is a two term president. Moving on.
Back to the vote. There were lots of numbers thrown around
by the Left yesterday and over the past few months. There was "the 90%
of Americans want this bill." Take the actual number of Americans who wanted that bill passed, then multiply by 2 or 3 and you might get 90%. That being said, so the eff what! What if 90% of Americans want a
law against Islam or a law against or for MSNBC or a law against black girls getting abortions. Too bad! The
rights of each of those people or groups are and will always be greater than a
real or imagined desire of 90%, or what the mob wants. The individual right is what is protected in the bill of
rights. Disclaimer: I am not a constitutional lawyer, but I voted against one
in the past two elections. Here is a scenario, and I will say up front, I don’t
know the details or procedures that would be needed to do this. Let’s say there
was a big enough push for a constitutional amendment to repeal the second
amendment. Is that even possible? Can you repeal one of the rights in the bill
of rights? I don’t think so, I hope not. I see those as the ones we start off
with and get to keep no matter what mob is in charge. We can make more, but we
can’t change the ones we started with. They are protected. I really thought
something like that should have happened during the health care debate. Many
were spouting off that health care was a right. If so, why not then make it an
actual right. Amend the constitution to make health care a right. Then the
funding of it would not be an issue. Then it would have had to pass all the
hurdles of a House, Senate and state vote. They didn’t do that. They rammed it
up our (you know what/where)!
So the right to keep and bear arms is just that a right. It is one of the, if the most regulated and limited right, but it still is a right. I hope, but don’t expect, future generations will regain some ground lost and repeal gun laws not compound gun laws.
So the right to keep and bear arms is just that a right. It is one of the, if the most regulated and limited right, but it still is a right. I hope, but don’t expect, future generations will regain some ground lost and repeal gun laws not compound gun laws.
As always, Reason.com does an excellent job talking about
this today.
And this one too. It’s never too early for a lame duck, especially
one with dangerous and radical ambitions like Obama. I think even the ACLU agrees. Best line, “Gloating in
victory, adolescent in defeat – the Prez doesn’t make it easy to work with
him.” NSS
Russians had the right to bear arms before their Revolution, too. East Germans had the right to cross to West Germany before the Soviet occupation/colonization. The list goes on and on, but the point is simple: any right can be forcibly removed, or in the case of the American people, simply given away in pursuit of what they perceive as the "greater good." We've become a country ruled by popularity, where movie stars become "public servants" and legislation passes on emotion, not logic. Until people recognize the danger of governing with the heart and not the head, we will continue our slide to Socialism and the relinquishment of freedom it entails; one can only hope that the American people finally reach a breaking point that causes them to vigorously fight the erosion of their lifestyle, their prosperity, and their rights.
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