Posted on 06/12/2017 6:36:29 AM PDT by marktwain
High school shooting teams are increasing. They were common in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. Increasing government and media hostility to private gun ownership caused a huge decrease in the teams from 1968 through 2000. Now the numbers are growing. A Wisconsin representative is suggesting that Wisconsin develop a high school class on gun handling and gun safety. A Wisconsin writer commented on the bill. From mediatrackers.org:
State Representative Ken Skowronski (R-Franklin) introduced a bill Thursday that would have the Department of Public Instruction develop a firearm course for Wisconsin High school students. In an era of gun-free school zones and zero tolerance policies that punish students for liking pictures of guns on Instagram, the notion of firearm training in schools likely will be anathema to many in the education establishment. But Skowronski says his Firearm Education Bill would address a need:Later, the article reverses causality with this gem:
It was after school shootings became more frequent in the mid-1990s that school officials decided their buildings were no place for guns.It wasn't "school officials" that decided to ban guns in schools. It was federal legislators. School shootings shot up after federal legislators passed the bans on guns in schools.
Gun handling and safety classes need to start in grade school. Rifle teams in Jr or High school.
OMG! What’s next...a resurgence in rifle racks in the back of pickem’up trucks?
Seriously though...would love to see gun safety classes taught as indicated in comment #2. That would go further in saving young lives from accidental shootings than anything else.
My oldest sister was our state Jr. 4 position smallbore indoor champion her junior year in high school. Her team, consisting of 3 other boys, two who went to her high school, the other a different school, had their pictures (team with gunz) in both of their HS year books, even though their shooting was not a school activity.
Four years later, my brother and me along with two other boys each from different schools had a similar experience and a yearbook photo. My sister was class of 1972, I was class of 1976. Times have changed.
The anti-gun movement began with the murder of John Kennedy and picked up steam with the murder of Bobby Kennedy.
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-LBJ signing the 1968 Gun Control Act into law.
How’d that work out for you America!
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"It wasn't "school officials" that decided to ban guns in schools. It was federal legislators. School shootings shot up after federal legislators passed the bans on guns in schools. [emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
Regardless that the Founding States constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate military firearms, such power reasonably justified by Clauses 12, 16 and other clauses in Congresss constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, please consider the following.
It remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific powers to regulate either civilian-related firearms, or to decide policy for non-military INTRAstate school activities. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
So federal gun regulations for non-military related school purposes are unconstitutional imo.
In fact, it is disturbing that federal gun regulations for non-military related arms seem to have started appearing in the books during FDR Administration, FDR and the Congress at that time infamous for making laws which they had no express constitutional authority to make.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Regarding unconstitutional expansion of federal government powers, when the states quit sitting on their hands and repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, that amendment effectively repealing the whole Constitution imo, the repeal amendment should include a provision that does the following.
The repeal amendment needs to expressly required the judicial system to presume guilt on the federal governments part for attempting to unconstitutionally expand its powers by means of any legislation, regulation or action by the federal government which is not clearly justified by any of the powers that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November 18 !
Since Trump entered the 16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the 18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February 18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably havent been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitutions Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal governments powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal governments limited powers listed below.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added]. Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
I appreciate your posts. So, how do we get around the “general welfare” and “interstate commerce” nonsense?
How’d his Great Society work out??
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