Beto O’Rourke riding gun confiscation back into relevancy

Washington Examiner ^ | 09-17-19 | Emily Larsen

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Beto O’Rourke is ratcheting up his new emphasis on confiscating assault-style weapons and is taking a looser, more aggressive campaign style in order to push himself back into relevancy, even if it creates a liability for other Democrats. “

The new narrative. “Assault Style” weapons.

[Texas resident]

22 People were killed in El Paso. The dims go nuts.

22 People are killed every weekend in Chicago and they ignore it.

[justme4now]

The vast majority of people who believe that the government has the right to regulate gun ownership by passing new laws ... have a poor understanding of our Constitution!

Most of the arguments about the Second Amendment ... made by both sides, revolve around a single assumption - that the Second Amendment grants a citizen the right to bear arms.

What both sides fail to understand is that the Second Amendment grants no such right, in fact, the Constitution grants no rights at all!

What the Constitution does do is identify what powers the people grant to the government.

This is the whole purpose of the Constitution - to tell the government what it can and cannot do, our Constitution is a limit on government.

That is why Marxists, Socialist, Progressive Democrats, et al. have such a disdain for our Constitution ...
It is a limitation on Government not a limitation on We The People.

Read the Second Amendment closely.
Nowhere does it state that the people have a right to bear arms but rather that the government cannot infringe on that right.


The framers of our Constitution believed that our right to bear arms is a natural right , not a right to be given to us by government.


Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

That’s it, that is the whole 2nd Amendment. Where does it say that the government gives us any right?

It doesn’t, it only says that the government cannot infringe on this right.

The following quote sums it up nicely ...

Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen’s protection against the government.
(Ayn Rand)

[Rapscallion]

Losing more votes daily.

[windsorknot]

He let the cat out of the bag.

[chopperk]

BEETOFF AND MOST OF THE OTHER RADICAL DEMS’ IDEAS COME FROM CARVILLE, STEPHANOPOULOS’S AND OTHER CLINTON CRAZIES. RECENTLY, LESLIE MARSHALL HAS PICKED UP THE BEAT AND REALLY BELIEVES MOST OF THE NONSENSE OF THE DEMS.

[elcid1970]

Beto spilled the beans, and at the worst possible moment, for the Dems seeking to wheedle PDJT into a gun control deal.

Schumer and Feinstein want to punch his lights out.

[myerson]

I wonder how much Trump paid Beto to insist that guns will be confiscated? The Dems should hate him for this.

[MachIV]

Even pimped out Ruger 10/22’s would qualify. They want everything

[Howie66]

You are right on target.

If there are any in the GOP with just half a brain, they would fully adopt President Trump’s approach to dealing with the loons. I realize that is a huge “IF”, though.

[maddog55]

Hope he has gloves.....

[Hazwaste]

I know a guy who is naming his new AR pistol “Francis”, because he was on the fence about getting it but Francis pushed him off. He may even get it engraved.

[Who is John Galt?]

If there are any in the GOP with just half a brain, they would fully adopt President Trump’s approach to dealing with the loons. I realize that is a huge “IF”, though.

Way too true! Unfortunately, we're currently stuck with choosing between 'The Dishonest Party' (Dems) and 'The Stupid Party' (GOPe)...

[Howie66]

More exactly we are stuck with choosing which faction of the UNIPARTY to go with.