Posted on 06/09/2016 5:44:28 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton declined to say if she thinks the Second Amendment guarantees the constitutional right to bear arms during an interview Sunday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos asked Clinton, “Do you believe that an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right, that it’s not linked to service in a militia?”
Hillary Clinton won't say if the Second Amendment makes gun ownership a right photo/screenshot Hillary Clinton won’t say if the Second Amendment makes gun ownership a right photo/screenshot
“I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice Scalia, and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulations,” she replied. “So I believe we can have common-sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment.”
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Clinton called her proposed legislation “constitutionally permissible.”
Stephanopoulos interjected that “the Heller decision also does say there can be some restrictions, but that’s not what I asked.”
“I said, do you believe that their conclusion that an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right?” he pressed.
“If it is a constitutional right, then it, like every other constitutional right, is subject to reasonable regulations, and what people have done with that decision is to take it as far as they possibly can and reject what has been our history from the very beginning of the republic, where some of the earliest laws that were passed were about firearms,” Clinton said.
She acknowledged that “reasonable people can say – as I do – responsible gun-owners have a right,” but “the rest of the American public has a right to require certain kinds of regulatory, responsible actions to protect everyone else.”
Hellary believes to regulated it out of existence.
I believe lying snake ass traitors ought to be hung, very quickly after trial.
The Ninth Circuit doesn’t think much of it either.
Der Hildebeast fits right in with her supporters who have no clue what is a Constitutional right. The only ones they believe in are equal rights and the right to have an abortion (the right to personal privacy). For them, rest can go the way of the white old men who wrote the Constitution.
This bitch needs to be no more. She is a direct threat to life and liberty.
Her position on the issue should be pretty clear to everyone by now.
Huck Fillary
It’s not a Constitutional Right. There are no “rights” in the Constitution. The Constitution limits the Federal Gov’t. as to what laws they can pass. Our rights are granted from GOD and inalienable which means they can’t be taken away. Where do these people learn this stuff?
Whatever they’re indoctrinating students with at Yale Law School, it is evidently not the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.
Noting that the 2nd Amendment (2A) is clearly not a delegation of power to regulate arms, a previous generatons of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified, in terms of the 10th Amendment, that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are prohibited to the feds, the power to regulate civilian arms originally prohibited to the feds.
”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.
And the way that 14A later applied 2A to the states is that Congress can now make gun laws to prohibit the states from making unreasonable gun control laws. This is evidenced by the following excerpt from Minor v. Happersett.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So Hillary’s statement that all constitutional rights are subject to reasonable regulation indicates that she either doesn’t understand or respect the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Hillary hopefully had somebody else pay for her law school indoctrination.
The Ninth Circuit...the most overturned court in history.
Bttt.
Exactly right. The 2nd Amendment does not grant nor guarantee our right to keep and bear arms. It specifically prohibits the federal government from infringing upon that right which is self evident.
Hillary Clinton appeals to people who, by and large, do not love or cherish America. Period.
She can’t. As the Whore of Babylon, the truth burns her mouth!
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