Posted on 09/16/2015 8:24:38 AM PDT by HomerBohn
This past week Jeb Bush was a guest on The Late Show with new host Stephen Colbert when Bush said something that some conservative voters might find shocking.
When Colbert asked the Governor if the Constitution implied a national right to gun ownership, Bush seemed to indicate that he believed each state had the right to legislate gun ownership as they see fit.
Stephen Colbert: Well, the right to have an individual firearm to protect yourself is a national document, in the Constitution, so shouldn't that also be applied national…
Jeb Bush: No. Not necessarily…There's a 10th amendment to our country, the Bill of Rights has a 10th amendment that says powers are given to the states to create policy, and the federal government is not the end all and be all. That's an important value for this country, and it's an important federalist system that works quite well.
After the story broke, the Bush campaign contacted the Daily Caller to explain that Bush is a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment and that he wasn't trying to argue that states have the right to limit the 2nd Amendment.
Governor Bush is a strong 2nd amendment advocate and reiterated his view that the federal government should not be passing new gun control laws. He believes in states rights and as Governor of Florida he used the 10th Amendment to expand gun rights with a "Six Pack of Freedom" bill and received an A+ ratings from the NRA.
While I appreciate what Governor Bush was trying to say in the interview, that the states are supposed to have as much power as the federal government (thus creating our federal system), on this issue, he is wrong. See, that's the whole point of the Bill of Rights. It's an enumeration of our specific rights that the federal government AND the states must respect. If the 2nd Amendment did not exist… then his 10th Amendment argument would make sense.
Colbert wasn't asking if the government could expand gun rights, he was saying that since the right to gun ownership is nationally mandated so too should gun laws be nationally mandated.
While Jeb tries to use a states-right argument here, he should have simply turned Colbert's argument back on itself. Because the Constitution mandates the right to gun ownership, this means that the federal government (and the state governments) have no right legislating against gun ownership. If we can't trust Jeb to counter a simple and easily refuted attack on the 2nd Amendment, how can we trust him with more complex issues?
With a statement like that, he'll sure give Hillary a hard time getting the nomination................oh, wait.........................
No, but they did catch us off-guard with their "aw-shucks" routine. Totally unpleasant Jeb is showing how misguided we were, falling for their routine.
Obviously Jebbie don’t understand the 10th Amendment too good. :-)
And for the second time in history, man sees a burning Bush!
Stay. Out. Da. Bushes.
Dear GOP,
I’m not going to do it this time. No more voting for Romney/Dole/McCain.
I will never vote for Jeb.
Jeb NEVER had a chance with me, I will not vote for him, I will stay home first.
Stay out daLiveralleftwng caraway Booshies, Worse than ‘Rats
Just lost any chance he might have had for my vote.
+1.
Amendment X
The powers NOT delegated to the United States by the Constitution, NOR prohibited by it to the States, ARE reserved to the States respectively, OR to the PEOPLE.
“PEOPLE” has always been interpreted by the SCOTUS to mean INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS but liberals want it to mean government when applied to the Second Amendment. Jeb is either too stupid to understand the Constitution or so liberal he wants to reinterpret it’s meaning to suit his liberal/progressive agenda. Either way he must be kept out of the WH, he’s no better than clinton, sanders, biden or obama.
Doc Carson also has some idea of rural ownership over city ownership......
Reason Number. 96 that I’m not even going to think about supporting Comrade Jeb!
Haven’t we had enough of RINOs?
Can we at least stop the insanity for once?
No, YOU need to actually READ the first Ten Amendments which in fact IS a Bill of Restrictions on the Federal Government and no one else.
Have read them? Read them. How does each one read?
“Congress shall make NO law respecting...prohibiting...or abridging...”
“...the right of the people...shall not be infringed.”
“The right of the people...shall not be violated...”
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments makes it clear these are NOT a Bill of Rights (Communist Russia has a huge “Bill of Rights”), but “the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall NOT be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” AND “powers NOT delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the states, are RESERVED to the states respectively, or to the people.”
I think YOU’RE the one needing a NON-LEFTIST civics lesson.
He never had a prayer with me regardless of his 2nd stance.
Jeb Bush just found a way to suck more. Amazing
I really think this fat fake Mexican can’t distinguish the difference between Mexico and the US. Gawd, I can’t wait til he drops out . . . dumbest of the dumb of the bushes.
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