Posted on 10/07/2015 6:26:33 AM PDT by PROCON
In August, my colleague Charlie Cooke wrote an epic rant daring the Left to stop talking about repealing the Second Amendment and start doing it. Introduce the repeal to Congress, work it through the states, and tell the American people what you want to do — take from them a fundamental, enumerated right from the Bill of Rights. As Charlie eloquently outlines, repealing the Second Amendment is an impossible task. Even worse for the Left, it’s political suicide.
But if the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges teaches us anything, it’s that the age of judicial supremacy means that five justices can amend the Constitution far more efficiently than Congress and the state legislatures. And right now there are clearly four Supreme Court justices who are committed to the absurd view that the operative clause of the Second Amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — doesn’t actually mean “the right of the people” and therefore doesn’t encompass an individual right to own a weapon, even for self-defense. This view defies history yet is received, conventional wisdom on the judicial Left, in much the same way that it’s received, conventional wisdom that the Constitution actually protects rights to abortion and gay marriage.
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SCOTUS can’t repeal anything in the Constitution. Any repeal would have to take place through a Constitutional Convention.
A convention of states my be the only solution to save the republic... unless of course the SCOTUS deems even that “unConstitutional”. Despots have few limits in their lust for tyranny.
I read somewhere recently that, if you go by hunting permits issued and assume each is a single armed citizen, just Ohio would have the 10th largest standing army in the world.
Just an aside, when was the last time a justice was assassinated?
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The Supreme Court can’t repeal an amendment, but they can render an interpretation of an amendment which could change how the related laws and amendment itself are interpreted and administered.
Worshipping Caesar would be immoral. However, not registering a gun if Caesar demanded it? That’s not so morally clear cut to me as Christian.
BTW, I’m only expressing my own thoughts on the matter and not advocating for or against any other position. I’m simply saying it (gun registration or confiscation) would not be a simple issue, clear cut issue for me. It would also be a deadly serious decision of course.
render unto Caesar —
bo is not Caesar.
The Constitution is.
I don’t really see any spiritual issue here with not registering or turning them in.
The Scriptures tell us that we obey the laws when they do not directly conflict with Scripture itself (Rom. 13:1, Titus 3:1, I Pet. 2:13-14, etc.)
HOWEVER.
In our system, what is the highest earthly law? It is the Constitution. The Constitution is what it is- Not what the SCOTUS says it is, for the Constitution itself nowhere gives SCOTUS any prerogative to interpretively overturn its provisions, or even to engage in any kind of “judicial review.”
Ergo, whenever any act of government goes contrary to the Constitution (which we the people are to decide through our states, since that was the scenario for ratification), it is null and void.
No SCOTUS decision that “interprets” the 2nd amendment as a collective right only has any standing. No federal law which seeks to restrict or overturn, in practice if not in word, the right to keep in bear arms has any standing.
If the Christian wants to obey the law, then they first and foremost obey the Constitution. All other powers are subsidiary to it, are instituted by it, and therefore have no legal standing to overrule it.
Obeying the Constitution, in our system, is fulfilling Rom. 13:1, etc. We obey it - not any subsidiary power which conflicts with it.
Or confused by all the Trumpites hating on NR.
It is a RINO lead conspiracy with a few rogue conservative writers between the brain farts of Atheists like George Will and Charles C. I. M. A. BRIT Cooke.
LINK TO 30 MINUTE RADIO RANT (mainly on islam, gun control, etc.) OF 10/7/2015
You can access the show by clicking on this link to the Gradick Communications site: http://www.gradickcommunications.com/
Go to “PODCAST” and click on the link to the show. You can play it from the site or download it to your computer and play it there.
HOW MUCH TROUBLE ARE WE IN? CAN YOU SAY “EXISTENTIAL”??
Agree, but...where in our Constitution does it say the SCOTUS has authority to unilaterally force government healthcare upon us and our required support of homomarriage?
While there is a lot of competition out there, I believe this one rates as dumbest headline of the day.
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Be prepared. Be very prepared.
“What they would do instead is ban ammunition.”
Without ammunition guns are not arms, but cleverly shaped pieces of metal, wood, and/or plastic. The right to bear arms includes the ammo that is part of them.
That is why the dems want to bring in UN troops to police us along with the huge population of illegals. This invasion has a purpose.
I do not think dems have thought this through or know who Americans are, power and insulation from the population has left them clueless.... The consequences will be devastating.
Never surrender your guns to authorities without a Supreme Court decree requiring surrender.
Never surrender your guns to authorities with a Supreme Court decree requiring surrender.
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