Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
Posted on 10/26/2016 9:22:26 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Add HEAVY medication to all the free foods they are passing out to the welfare crowd. Set up free medicated BBQ in Detroit.
Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
“Well, I understand where it comes from, the right to bear arms because the Revolution and that stuff and tyranny and the right to defend yourself, and I still agree with that, but it’s kind of out of balance at the moment,” he said at a recent press junket. “...Something has to be done in order to stop some of the heinous violence that has [occured] just like sporadically and shockingly...”
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You’re right Mel. Vote the crooks out of office, because they’ve been breeding and importing criminals for 50 years. However, cracking down on already law abiding citizens is going to hurt rather than help.
Although the Founding States would have probably liked to prohibit the federal government from regulating arms altogether by including the language of the 2nd Amendment in the specific powers prohibited to Congress by the 1st Amendment, they necessarily had to give Congress the power to regulate guns for the specific purpose of maintaining a militia.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Otherwise, the problem with the 2nd Amendment is that patriots are embracing that amendment to the extent that they seem to be completely overlooking the following.
While the Constituton’s only express delegation of the power to regulate arms is limited to militia purposes, patriots seem to be overlooking that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate civilian-use arms imo.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that powers not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are 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.
Given no express power to the feds to regulate civilian arms, it is disturbing that federal gun control laws for civilian-use arms seem to have started appearing in the books during the time of the FDR Administration, FDR and Congress at that time infamous for making laws which Congress could not justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
On the other hand, consider that the Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that powers not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds, the power to regulate civilian-use arms in this example, are reserved uniquely to the states. But also consider that when the states later ratified the 14th Amendment, they limited, but not prohibited, state power to abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, including the 2nd Amendment.
yikes !
Mel Gibson is a liberal American, born and raised in Westchester County New York
Well Mel, as one who has pretended to be a champion of justice many times...what do you usually do to the bad guys?
That's right, lock 'em up...or just shoot em.
No kidding.
Wow...”Zionist cabal”?...didnt see that coming, SS.
SS...get it?
Perhaps so, but I’ll still watch it. Various others suggested that the message is more about PFC Doss’ commitment as a Seventh Day Adventist than about his refusal to use weapons.
My only issue here is the Fox News statement that he “won” a Medal of Honor. He did not “win” it. It was awarded to him on the grounds that he had more guts than some brigades.
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