This guy has probably never seen a gun.
I believe that we should have mandatory 2 year service of all able bodied citizens where they would learn respect for weapons and their country.
They would have to volunteer for overseas service but could serve in this country with coast guard, border guard, or other civil services.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I will at least give this guy credit for honesty, which is more than I can say for the Bradys, Feinstein, Schumer, Lautenberg, Nutso McCarthy and the rest of the hoplophobic blissninnies and would-be tyrants.
That being said, I would ask Mr. Wittes to COME AND GET THEM - yourself: http://www.moviesonline.ca/TheFeed/index.php?id=300-laydownyourweapons
The Bill of Rights forbids the government to attempt to deny these rights to the people. In fact, the entire body of Amendments to the Constitution are a restraint on the power of government over the people. A few of the Amendments define more clearly proper procedure, but the bulk are restraint of government power over the citizenry.
The first ten amendments are exactly that, and any attempt by government to set them aside should be viewed as an attack on the rights of the people. The Bill of Rights is, and should ever be, inviolate.
Gotta salute him for his honesty!
But gotta deport him for his treason.
Where to take this useful idiot’s positions apart first....
1. Can one of the Amendments in the BOR be canceled? Was not the whole point of the BOR that these freedoms MUST be guaranteed?
2. If the 2nd Amendment is repealed, where will the repealing stop? The 1st Amendment is already infringed concerning Christians. Maybe the socialists will repeal it also and have state run media, a state ‘religion’ (or the “State” as “religion”), tear down churches, shut down the Internet/radio/TV (hey, it’s the “fairness Doctrine”!) and stifle ALL dissent. But then, the leftists “Question Authority” bumper sticker only means to ‘question’ when the left is out of power. Questioning leftist ‘authority’ usually gets one audited by the IRS or “investigated” by the FBI.
But why stop there? Why not repeal the 5th Amendment? Why not force people to testify against themselves (unless they are leftists of course)? Oh, and let us take out that pesky “cruel and unusual punishment’ part too. While we are at it, why not repeal ALL the Amendments? After all, women voting ‘offends’ the Islamics, and the left tells us that we are mean and cruel to ‘offend’ these monsters so let’s get rid of women’s suffrage. Heck, why stop there?
And who would stop the government from just repealing Amendments and outlawing natural rights? Without the 2nd Amendment, NO ONE could. Which brings me to #3.
3. One of the things that they believed was that the right of states to organize militias, and therefore individuals to be armed, was necessary to protect the liberty of those states against the federal government,” Wittes said. “This is something we don’t really believe as a society anymore.”
He does not get out much does he. Others have already taken this obvious deceit and torn it to pieces. What the left/socialists/fascists/Islamists fear IS an Armed People. It really puts a bummer on their totalitarian schemes.
4. Barnett recommended that gun control advocates “not favor methods of interpretation [to criticize the legitimacy of the Second Amendment] that you wouldn’t want to put in the hands of political opponents.”
The leftists caught projecting again. Akin to the "Bush Police State" charge. The left practices police state tactics, but claims others want use it. I do not know Barnett's politics, I am just speaking to the point he brings up. The left’s lust for power and unfounded sense of moral supremacy leads them to believe that they will NEVER do any ‘wrong’ and if wrong happens then it is for the “Greater Good (tm)”. Just like Stalin’s purges, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and Hitler’s “solutions”. 200 million plus people have died for the left’s “Greater Good (tm)”.
The 2nd Amendment gives us the opportunity to ensure this NEVER happens in the USA.
Obviously this statement may be countered by:
This is something we believe is necessary for the continuation of America.
Oh, believe me, this country wants this amendment! I would LOVE to see these idiots try to take it away! They won't know what hit them...
Actually, I kind of agree with everything he says on this portion of the post. I don’t necessarily agree with how he got to these statements, but I think he inadvertently hits on a couple of things that are essentially correct.
Namely, that the public is no longer concerned with individual liberty and freedom and that we should just attempt a repeal of the RKBA rather than backdoor prohibition.
The founding fathers wisely included the first ten amendments to the US Constitution to protect citizens from government officials who would usurp and deny them their freedoms, and this guy should be widely proclaimed to be the fool that he is.
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This is an honest Liberal idea. I actually like it. Of course I think it would fail miserably, at least it would be intellectually honest.
Opinions are like... Well we all know.
Modern society is "much more ambivalent than they [the founders] were about whether gun ownership really is fundamental to liberty," he said.
Modern society can be as ambivalent as it wants, that doesn't give the moderns the right to infringe my rights.
Oh, I forgot this is 21st century America where 50.1% of the voters can tell the other 49.9% what to eat, drink, smoke, what trees can be cut on one's own property, etc., etc., etc.
Exhibit A: I live in Houston, TX around two temporary section 8 apartments for the Katrina evacuees. These lazy good for nothing bums are raping, robbing, and murdering... and are the product of the Liberal Plantation of New Orleans.
If they did repeal it, it would work as well as Prohibition.
What a strange choice of words for an anti-gun guy, one wonders if he has a secret.