Posted on 06/05/2016 11:32:01 AM PDT by rktman
Government has a right to regulate the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton said in an interview on the June 5 airing of This Week With George Stephanopoulos,
Clinton contended that Americans have historically recognized the government’s “right” to regulate the bearing of arms, suggesting that it was not until District of Columbia v Heller (2008) that anyone thought otherwise.
Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you believe an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right? That it’s not linked to the service in the militia?”
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The People have the RIGHT to remove tyrants and correct a government hellbent on returning to the days of King George III (and those before him) when he stepped on the necks of patriots too, H-hole.
Exactly what you said.
That’s why they are called inalienable rights.
Who wants to look at that ugly face for four years?
(Or even four seconds).
Don’t know if they support mclame or not. With all advertising, money is money.
The Australian confiscations worked because all guns in Oz were already registered. The police sent letters ordering semi-autos turned in, and that was that. Most owners brought their guns to the police station rather than risk a visit.
Now, what was the overall compliance rate, I don’t know.
Lots of folks think that BATFE Form 4473 is de facto gun registration: the gun is now `papered’. But that would be true only if a law existed that required the owner to report transferring the gun to a new owner whose name would then be recorded as such.
Currently you can freely buy, sell, or transfer guns in private transactions - the so-called “gun show loophole”.
We don’t have a national gun registry - yet. Al Gore ran on that in 2000 and lost. Try getting a Federal gun registration bill through Congress. Such bills usually originate from some crackpot Congressthing in an airtight district, like Rose DeLauro. Most other Dems aren’t that stupid. Not going to happen.
Obama may fuss & fume, but he hasn’t really done anything to send out the flying monkeys. He complained last week that gun sales continue to rise, nobody’s coming to take your guns, I’m leaving office soon, blah blah blah.
Intentions must be backed by capabilities. We should all remember that.
Does The Beast believe that the government has a right to regulate free speech?
Does she believe that the government has the right to regulate the many unwritten “rights” that liberals have miraculously discovered in the constitution?
Governments don’t have any rights. They have powers, except in monarchies and dictatorships. I didn’t even go to law school, and I know that.
Noting that Hillary attended Yale Law School, whatever they’re teaching at Yale, it’s certainly not the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.
For example, one thing that Hillary evidently didn’t learn in law school is that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, so-called federal power to regulate privately owned firearms for example, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government 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.
In fact, it is disturbing that federal gun laws regulating private firearms don’t seem to have appeared in the books (corrections welcome) until FDR was president, FDR and the Congress at that time infamous for making laws that they couldn’t justify under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Also, note that Attorney Stephen P. Holbrook has indicated in his book “Securing Civil Rights” that one of the purposes of the 14th Amendment with respect to the 2nd Amendment was to prohibit the states from preventing freedmen from using firearms to protect themselves.
Finally, note that the courts have been clarifying that police protection is not a constitutional right.
Just Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection
The Founding States had made the 2nd Amendment so that individual citizens could be their own police.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision to make America great again, but also repeal all federal laws that Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Basically she is stating the Government has the right to regulate our Constitution. Does she include the 1st? How about the right to vote? What else does she think the Government has a right to regulate over our Constitution?
Let me rephrase that. Governments don’t have any rights, except in monarchies and dictatorships. They have powers, which are limited by individual rights, and the federal government’s powers are also limited by states’ rights.
“Sorry, lady, you fail Civics 101. People have rights, government get its just powers as a derivation from the people.”.........
Hiltary Clinton cannot be wrong, she is Hitlary Clinton after all and NO ONE challenges her athourity, mind you, NO ONE! (She has spoken)
It’s what leftists think. All rights come from government. So on your knees and thank government for all you have.
The communists are inside the gates of a once blessed, nation.
We left the guard towers, let them in, and partied on.
Now many are to old to fight and the young don’t know anything’s wrong.
Well, “attended” and actually learning something are two different things. Apparently she only attended. Kinda like moochie somehow “attended” some prestigious schools but obviously nothing stuck there either. Affirmative action at it’s finest.
“One dead Mexican would denigrate the entire Trump Movement for good. Bank on it.”
I don’t agree. I depends on the -type- of Mexican. A peaceful protester attacked without cause, yes of course. A violent thug who attacked the wrong victim? Not so much. A Mexican gang member attacks some elderly Trump supporter who is a CCW, and that supporter blows out their lamp in self defense....Americans will cheer.
Heller was a two-edged sword.
The government doesn’t have any rights.
This is getting tedious. The only people reading the Second Amendment in a "nuanced" way are the liberals. I'm still baffled by how difficult it is for people to understand the text. As much as they want to muddy it up, it's actually quite clear: Just in case a militia is needed, the people have the right to bear arms.
Simple as that.
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