Posted on 03/09/2017 6:24:42 AM PST by rellimpank
What do you call a regulation that summarily deprives law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights without any evidence that they pose a danger to others?
If you are a New York Times editorialist, you call it “sensible.”
That was the newspaper’s take on a Social Security Administration rule that Congress canceled with a bill President Donald Trump signed last week. The objections aroused by the rule’s demise show that its supporters do not understand it, do not value the constitutional right to arms — or both.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
There is only one reason for a state or nation to require that its people be disarmed; to do things to them that they would not endure if they had the means to resist.
There’s a phrase for elderly people with no means of personal defense: “victims”.
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