Marine Schools CNN Anchor on 2nd Amendment! (Video)

youtube ^ | january 6, 2013

[lowbridge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETF6XFiQe7I

[Gator113]

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[IYAS9YAS]

Those - like felons - who have demonstrated that they do not feel the need to be bound by the law, have removed themselves from the 'body politic' who comprise 'the people.'

That is why felons serve time, or are put to death. Once that time is paid (to include all probation and/or parole), one should receive all rights back. If you are concerned a violent felon is able to have a gun once all time is served, then maybe we shouldn't look at the restriction of guns, but the length of incarceration for the crime. If said violent felon can't be trusted with a firearm, then why is said violent felon not still behind bars. Not only that, but there are too many ways to become a felon today.

[Phlyer]

You're addressing ways in which a convicted felon could 're-enter the body politic' which is something I said we as a 'people' needed to address. However, it's not automatically true that every felon who completes his sentence has demonstrated that he is ready for full responsibility as part of 'the people.' That's why we have a lot of repeat offenders.

So, while we may differ on the details of what requirements should be met, we can agree that there should be a path for someone who has demonstrated enduring repentence to re-enter 'the people.'

[marktwain]

If the gun contol act of 1968 (due mostly to NRA (as I understand it) impetus)

The NRA fought GCA 1968. Johnson is the primary culprit there. It was passed in another time of high emotions, after the assassination of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. In a time when the MSM was overwhelmingly dominant. Johnson was another disaster as a President.

[absalom01]

I was thinking the same thing. He was calm, prepared, well informed, and affable.

[Hulka]

“I think it’s true in the military, that an unlawful order must be followed”

Actually, you have an obligation NOT to follow an illegal order. Moreover, you are obligated to report up-the-chain the illegal order.

If you follow the illegal order then you are committing a crime and will be punished.

[Terry L Smith]

“Unconstitutional laws are not laws.” correct!
As someone pondered ... I was taught, many moons squared ago, if an illegal order is given in the military, by a commanding officer, the choice is the subordinate’s to follow or not, but be ready to defend your actions.

The blonde twit had that, “yeah right, buster, you don’t know anything!” smile. Not a good practice.

Geaux Boston, geaux!

[saleman]

“That is why felons serve time, or are put to death”

Um, No. It’s not the time you serve that makes you a felon.

[oldfart]

Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845, said in reference to the Constitution, “Certainly all those, who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.”

Pretty sweeping, I think. But it does leave the interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary citizen rather than a group of politically appointed lawyers. In other parts of his commentary he also pointed out that our Constitution was written in plain english so that the ordinary citizen COULD interpret it correctly.

So when the Amendment says “... shall not be infringed,” what do YOU think it means? More importantly in these troubled times, what do you think those who would “infringe” on your Second Amendment right should be called? Misinformed or traitors?

[IYAS9YAS]

Um, No. It’s not the time you serve that makes you a felon.

I didn't state that. I merely stated that once time and all probation/parole was served, that people should get rights back. If they cannot be trusted with those rights, all of them, when released back into society, then they should not be released.

[IYAS9YAS]

However, it's not automatically true that every felon who completes his sentence has demonstrated that he is ready for full responsibility as part of 'the people.' That's why we have a lot of repeat offenders.

True. My question is asking why they're out again, if they are repeat offenders. If the punishment truly fit the crime, then maybe, they wouldn't repeat offend.

[Bshaw]

It’s really difficult to ascertain whether her ignorance is exceeded by her arrogance.... She’s clearly lacking in neither.

[Lancey Howard]

...then I should be allowed to keep and carry without having to justify that keeping and carrying other than, I am an American.

I believe the framers referred to that as an "inalienable right".