Skinning Cats: Legal Means to Disarm the Second Amendment

Vanity | May 6, 2007 | Mark Edward Vande Pol

[Carry_Okie]

It starts slow, but it makes its point.

There are lots of ways for to skin a cat, this is but one of them.

[Carry_Okie]

My take on a get-around the gun-grabbers may take to invalidate Parker v. District of Columbia.

[padre35]

Private property as a concept is under enarly conatant assualt, the Government carves out exceptions to the idea all the time, and the justify under there idea that anyhting but building a building on the taken property is not a “taking”.

Teh moderates are planning on running on Environmental Protections this coming election, no surprise really as to people in large cities it is easy to support stealing property under color of law out in “Flyover Country”.

[Filo]

Yeah, we might be up for that revolution thing sooner than even I thought. . .

[mamelukesabre]

Absolutely terrifying. When you add to this the trend in the world nowdays for corporate mergers and also governmental mergers(the EU, nafta, etc), ever larger and more powerfull entities...I’m scared spitless what the world will look like in 50 years.

[barb-tex]

Lest we forget, the Battle of Lexington-Concord was over Gun Control.
barbra ann

[PghBaldy]

Well done. I never thought about the 2/3 present. The other thing to remember is Senators weren’t originally popularly elected. They were chosen by their state legislatures.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

All this is from an evil obsession with control that seeks to systematically empower despots to outlaw and seize all firearms so that they can impose a totalitarian regime upon a defenseless America.

Some prefer not granting final authority to the Citizens, but rather to the judges who ultimately serve at our pleasure and on our payroll.

It’s at OUR pleasure. It’s OUR payroll.

And our judicial recall/impeachment process, when necessary.

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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. — C. S. Lewis

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Two-thirds of the senate present not two-thirds of the senate got my attention straight off.Pack of sneaky runts.

[Carry_Okie]

Is this a ping or a bonk?

[Carry_Okie]

The other thing to remember is Senators weren’t originally popularly elected. They were chosen by their state legislatures.

Correct. Effectively, treaties were to be ratified by the states.

[neverdem]

I think we’re in a mess. I’m close to being fed up. I can’t believe all the nonsense that is happening. We’re supposed to have the world’s greatest deliberative body, the U.S. Senate! How does anyone debate with those who said we lost? Who lost to whom? I am fuming.

[Carry_Okie]

Pack of sneaky runts.

"I smell a rat." Immortal words uttered by Christian Statesman Patrick Henry when he refused his invitation to attend the US Constitutional Convention in 1787.

[Carry_Okie]

I think we’re in a mess.

It's up to us. It always has been.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free -- Ronald Reagan

[Carry_Okie]

Shameless self-promotion bump.

[o_zarkman44]

Congress appears to represent everything that the people are for. But when it comes to a vote, rarely do they vote as they tell the people how they would vote.

Tell us what we want to hear. Stab us in the back.

congress is a bunch of overpaid, underworked wimps.

[El Gato]

If we do win in the Supreme Court, don’t think for a second that the gun-grabbing thugs of the left will let the situation get away from them without a fight. The threat we face is unambiguous. The motives are obvious. The enemy is committed. If the Second Amendment is hosed by treaty, we won't get the chance to let it happen again.

But blue helmets make such wonderful aim points.

[Carry_Okie]

With credit to Joe Brower.

Here's my new flag.

It's GONE!!!

[philetus]

Yeah, we might be up for that revolution thing sooner than even I thought.”

Nice thought, but too late.

You couldn’t get three people together to plan a revolution without one of them being a snitch.

[Frohickey]

bang