Posted on 07/13/2021 7:36:17 PM PDT by PROCON
Keith Olbermann owned himself on Twitter.
The left-wing former ESPN and MSNBC commentator unveiled a novel argument for the constitutionality of gun control — that the Second Amendment doesn’t use the word “own.”
~~SNIP~~
“Consider again the holy Second Amendment to the Constitution and ask yourself this question. Why doesn’t the 2nd Amendment have the word ‘own’ in it? Why does it not say the right to own guns or a synonym for own?” he asked sarcastically before reciting the existing amendment.
It says “‘keep and bear’ … not ‘own.’ ‘Keep’ doesn’t mean ‘own’; ‘bear’ doesn’t mean ‘own,’” he said to his close-up camera.
In his tweet promoting the video he declared that “the 2nd Amendment does NOT authorize gun OWNERSHIP!”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Here's some reading for you... I'll give you just a few sentences so you can keep up...
Federalist #29:
The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice...Federalist #45:To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.
If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm...The above is what "gun ownership" in the 2nd amendment was all about.That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of men ready to betray both...
That the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads...
Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government...
The State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger...
To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties...
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of...
Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.
Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it.
-PJ
Keith becomes anymore unpopular his next screed will be published on shortwave radio.
CC
Hey dummy, keep means own.
Wasn’t a keep also a prison in those days?
He means it’s okay for inner city yutes to buy and possess illegal guns which they do not technically own for defense on the streets the white man has segregated them to- but not okay for a homeowner to protect his fam with a legally purchased firearm
A castle keep was a safe room that sometimes was a prison.
This is the stuff of an undergrad dorm room debate.
What an imbecile. Only a liberal could look at “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” and say that it doesn’t mean you can own firearms.
And only a liberal could look at the Constitution and say that “the right of the people too keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” doesn’t really exist yet find that a woman’s right to murder her unborn children is there as plain as day. And absolute.
You really need to read the out of print and highly suppressed 1982 Senate report on the 2nd Amendment. I have a paper copy.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html
“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”
19th century cases
16. * Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878).
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the (p.17)penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”
17. * Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).
“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”
18. * Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am. Rep. 8, at 17 (1871).
“The passage from Story (Joseph Story: Comments on the Constitution) shows clearly that this right was intended, as we have maintained in this opinion, and was guaranteed to and to be exercised and enjoyed by the citizen as such, and not by him as a soldier, or in defense solely of his political rights.”
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
And the SCOTUS case that led to the Civil War..
Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Now he just needs to get himself and a few like minded “fellow-travellers” onto the Supreme Court, and his opinion will matter lol.
Who cares what Olberdouche says?
Is NO ONE ever gonna call this devil’s bluff, and get him to confess if he really believes and means everything he says ,or not?
And if he really does believe everything he says, PUT HIS MAN CHILD ASS OUT OF IT’S MISERY!!!!
Keith Olbermann the Less Nessman of news.
Hey there, Keith. How about this: you convince “President” Biden of this, and get him to re-purpose his door-to-door vaccine checkers into gun confiscators, and then you’ll see how many millions of Americans believe that your are a self-important, stupid twit who just cannot come to grips with the fact that America is a nation founded on the idea of a government created for the SOLE purpose of protecting the basic rights (specifically including the right to own weapons - not merely firearms) of the people of this country, and that most people actually believe it.
Molon Labe, bitch!
He’s nearly as stupid as the fake president..?
What a dweeb!
Was it the 33” barrel or the carbine?
The 33 inch
That was considered the rifle as opposed to the carbine.
The bayonet projects 18” beyond the end of the barrel. It is a long weapon.
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