Posted on 05/27/2022 9:33:02 AM PDT by RandFan
@RepThomasMassie
ZERO. That’s the number of murderers who have been deterred by the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act.
The GFSZA was a knee jerk reaction in 1990 that has cost more lives than it has saved.
REPEAL it now. Let bad guys know unceremonious death awaits them if they target our kids.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
He's your Number 1 defender of the 2A in Congress.
Support him!
Wooo now.
Making too much sense will get you the brown outta Congress.
Thrown
They’ve tried but he’s still there
Thank goodness.
It's an unconstitutional violation of an inalienable right.
It is even worse than that. The legislation RESULTED in a 3 times increase in school shootings. And who wrote, sponsored and pushed for it’s passage?!?
None other that Joe Biden.
Rep Massie is usually the LONE Rep standing up for our last vestiges of freedom/rights.
Why is that?
God bless him!
It's almost as though they wanted dead kids, and wanted also to deny our side from using the "good guy with a gun" narrative. "Law enforcement" is not what it was when I was a kid. Now the FBI is weaponized for a single party, and even Marshalls can't be trusted. Scary times, folks.
If anything it’s made schools the perfect defenseless target.
Militia-related federal laws aside, since the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime gun-control laws, this post-17th Amendment ratification, vote-winning, federal gun-control law is unconstitutional imo.
"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.
If a state had made such a law, then in stark contrast to politically correct federal gun-restricting laws, Congress has only the enumerated power to counter it with a 14th Amendment (14A)-based, 2nd Amendment (2A)-supporting law to discourage state actors from abridging 2A protections.
Excerpted from the 14th Amendment...
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws [emphasis added]."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Note that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime penal laws, not even for murder.
"Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union [emphases added]. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day.” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
In fact, the congressional record also shows that when Bingham read the Bill of Rights as main examples of constitutionally enumerated privileges and immunities that 14A gives Congress the specific power to legislatively protect, he included 2A.
“See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about middle of 2nd column.” — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe
Again, the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to regulate peacetime, non-militia use of guns, either restrictive or 2A supportive. But Congress now has the express 14A power only to make 2A supportive laws.
Conceptually, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) could have included the regulation of firearms in the 1st Amendment's list of powers expressly prohibited to Congress. But since Con-Con delegates had already given militia-related gun control powers to Congress, the 2nd Amendment was the remedy.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia [emphases added], and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
So based on Clause 16 above, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but where citizens in good standing are concerned, Congress has only the express constitutional power to arm people (militia, constitutionally proper federal property), not to weaken their gun rights in any way.
Finally, consider that unconstitutional (imo) gun-control laws started appearing in the federal books when Constitution-ignoring FDR was president.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Corrections, insights welcome.
But how many law abiding citizens have disarmed themselves than risk the destruction of their lives by force of government?
It is the government that is criminal, folks.
Not only has it not deterred anyone, it has encouraged them.
Gun Free School Zones are merely resulting in an advertisement to nut-cases.
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