Posted on 05/14/2013 7:09:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The more militant members of the N.R.A. and most of its leaders may be un-American.
By “militant” I don’t mean those who wish to protect recreational shooting and hunting; nor do I mean those who, like Justice Antonin Scalia, believe that there is a constitutional right to defend one’s home and family with firearms. These are respectable positions (although I am deeply unpersuaded by the second). I mean those who read the Second Amendment as proclaiming the right of citizens to resist the tyranny of their own government, that is, of the government that issued and ratified the Constitution in the first place.
The reason this view may be un-American is that it sets itself against one of the cornerstones of democracy — the orderly transfer of power. A transfer of power is orderly when it is effected by procedural rules that are indifferent to the partisan, ideological affiliations of either the party exiting power or the party taking power. A transfer is disorderly when it is effected by rebellion, invasion, military coup or any other use of force.....
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these are the types that are running things now.
I suppose General Washington was unAmerican when he resisted the tyranny of his government.
“I mean those who read the Second Amendment as proclaiming the right of citizens to resist the tyranny of their own government, that is, of the government that issued and ratified the Constitution in the first place.”
And his point is? It’s exactly why we have the second amendment. And the IRS scandal and going after the press is bordering on tyranny.
The government neither issued nor ratified the Constitution. The Constitution of the United States was issued and ratified by "we the people," as it states in the first sentence of the preamble."We the people," formed the federal government by delegating to it certain powers that are inherent in the people themselves.
We have a President who feels “constrained” by the Constitution, and the professor is not the least bit worried where that might lead??? What universe does he inhabit? /s
This Nation was founded with the overthrow of what was a legitimate government. The Declaration of Independence clearly spells it out.
This communist twit of a “professor” is un-American.
He’s an idiot. The govt did NOT issue and ratify the Constitution. It was written by delegates of the states and ratified by the states, not the government which was only created by the ratification process.
No the NRA is not Un-American but those who write Nazi propaganda for the New Yawk Slimes are.
If he has to say he is a professor then he is not much of a teacher.
During the Cold war, armed citizens were a invasion deterent.
The USA has more armed citizens than countries with standing armies. The fact we have had orderly power trasitions for (even in the civil war nobody stopped the president from becoming president) for all our history.
The NYT is.
this is google search manipulation for the nra.
[[A professor who doesn’t know we aren’t a democracy?]]
He’s unAmerican, what do you expect?
Perhaps this twit might be brighter than most of his colleagues. Perhaps he knows his liberal ass is in our sights.
Is this idiot trying to say that the Fed Gov created itself rather than the States?
His other premise is wide of the mark as well. The idea that the "government" grants the rights in the Constitution requires ignoring that the "government" exists only throughout the authorities granted in the Constitution. It is scary that someone so devoid of understanding makes a living teaching people.
By his logic the founding fathers were also radical extremists.
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