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Hillary on guns: There’s a Constitutional right to life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness, too
Hot Air ^ | February 25, 2016 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/25/2016 4:28:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

There is? Perhaps Hillary Clinton's copy of the US Constitution has bleed-over from a page containing the Declaration of Independence. Pick this up at the 2:12 mark for an interesting lesson in American civics (via Twitchy):

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Hillary Clinton
✔ ‎‎@HillaryClinton

Joining @IAmSteveHarvey today to continue the conversation he's
been having on guns in America. Don't miss it!

"We've got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns. But there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country. where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence."

This is, of course, sheer nonsense. The phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" does not appear in the Constitution at all, but in the Declaration of Independence. While that is a foundational document of our nation, it does not override the Constitution. The Declaration proclaimed the United States to be its own sovereign; the Constitution created the governmental framework for it -- and more importantly, limits the authority government has and ensures that the people of the US remain free and its master....

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Arkansas; New York; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: 17760407; 2016election; 2ndamendment; 4thofjuly1776; arkansas; banglist; declaration; election2016; gunconfiscation; guncontrol; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; newyork; secondamendment; wipewater
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1 posted on 02/25/2016 4:28:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And guns help us to keep it that way.


2 posted on 02/25/2016 4:29:20 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, arguendo, if gun control policies promote a disadvantage to self-defense from criminals—who will be armed absent the Singapore solution of death for their possession—don’t they work against life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?


3 posted on 02/25/2016 4:30:28 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right to life? Tell that to the 60 million butchered babies, you murdering witch.


4 posted on 02/25/2016 4:31:26 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ‘smartest woman in the US’ just proved she’s really the dumbest “female dog” on Earth.


5 posted on 02/25/2016 4:36:22 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bill once asserted that the Constitution said our government was "of the people by the people and for the people."

Shows how much liberal lawyers care about the Constitution.

6 posted on 02/25/2016 4:36:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The evil “gun lobby” as she calls it, actually consists of thousands of law abiding, loyal, American citizens.


7 posted on 02/25/2016 4:37:15 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If all these infringements on gun ownership are such a good idea why don’t opponents of the Second Amendment try to get it repealed ?


8 posted on 02/25/2016 4:37:30 PM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s right Thunder Thighs...a right to LIFE (protected by guns), a right to LIBERTY (guns protect UN from a government run amuck), and LIBERTY, (guaranteed by an armed populace). None of those can exist in an evil world without guns. Most of the evil is generated by liberal, socialist policies.

The lefties are so telling of their desire to run a dictatorship, of which an armed populace is the only thing in their way. The Desparation by hill, Obama, and the rest, is so obviously bent on that one goal, it would take an idiot not to see it.

Would-be dictators, tyrants, and criminals would love a gun-free society, but I’m pretty sure the people wouldn’t.


9 posted on 02/25/2016 4:38:35 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Timocrat

I fear they were just waiting for the correct SCOTUS “mix” and do it via the legal system rather than legislation.


10 posted on 02/25/2016 4:38:55 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eferytime she says this ask how abortion of a baby protects that baby’s constitutional right to life.

I sure damn hope someone does that to her and its captured on video.


11 posted on 02/25/2016 4:40:44 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t she a lawyer? Does she know the difference in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
Doesn’t she know better? Of course she does.
Has she ever read that the writer of the Declaration said that, ‘’No man should be debarred the use of firearms?’’ Does she understand what that means?


12 posted on 02/25/2016 4:42:48 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who is the uneducated harridan that claims the right to lead us?


13 posted on 02/25/2016 4:44:34 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s a moron wrapped in stupid.


14 posted on 02/25/2016 4:46:00 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: nascarnation

We have always known that they would attempt it.....I would like to hear the logic that they would use to overturn it.


15 posted on 02/25/2016 4:50:05 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: SkyDancer

Yes, that is why the Bill of Rights guarantees such things as being secure in our homes, secure in our possessions, having the right to not just keep, but also to bear arms.


16 posted on 02/25/2016 5:01:00 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Hillary is a BITCH!


17 posted on 02/25/2016 5:01:32 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Sasparilla

Apparently she doesn’t. That is the first thought I had, this is not in the bill of rights, but neither is the right to marry your queer friend, or the right to kill unborn children.


18 posted on 02/25/2016 5:03:12 PM PST by nobamanomore
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Constitutional right to life..this coming from a woman who supports abortion right to the moment of delivery


19 posted on 02/25/2016 5:08:50 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And that’s exactly why we aren’t giving up the guns.


20 posted on 02/25/2016 5:20:47 PM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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