Posted on 05/03/2018 8:58:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Continuing his cross-country book tour, former FBI Director James Comey railed against the National Rifle Association and disputed claims that he was considering running for political office. According to the Miami Herald, Comey briefly touched on gun rights in the wake of recent mass shooting tragedies, telling readers at a book event in Miami that the NRA "sells fear" to gun owners.
As for specific gun laws that should be put in place to prevent similar shootings like the Parkland, Florida School shooting in February, Comey said he would support "reasonable restrictions" to current laws. He shot down criticism that changing such laws would be a slippery slope.
"It's not a slippery slope, it's a concrete set of stairs built by America's founders," he said. "Let's have these conversations standing there, holding the rails."
As for making his way back to Washington and running for political office, he told supporters that he'd make a "crappy candidate," pointing to his disdain for political fundraising.
"I hate the idea of asking people for money," he told the crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
An absolute RIGHT. Here are what the jurists thought of the 2nd Amendment in the 1800s.
This is from the suppressed 1982 Congressional Report on THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. Betcha can’t find the complete version on line or in print. I have a a copy from 1982 from the US Government printing house.
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/68101
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(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.”
20.
Simpson v. State, 13 Tenn.
356
, at
359-60
(1833)
.
“But suppose it to be assumed on any ground, that our ancestors adopted and brought
over with them this English statute, [the statute of Northampton,] or portion of the
common law, our constitution has completely abrogated it; it says, ‘that the freemen of
this State have a right to keep and bear arms for their common defence.’ Article II, sec.
26. * * * By this clause of the constitution, an express power is given and secured to all
the free citizens of the State to keep and bear arms for their defence, without any
qualification whatever as to their kind or nature; and it is conceived, that it would be
going much too far, to impair by construction or abridgement a constitutional privilege,
which is so declared; neither, after so solumn an instrument hath said the people may
carry arms, can we be permitted to impute to the acts thus licensed, such a necessarily
consequent operation as terror to the people to be incurred thereby; we must attribute to
the framers of it, the absence of such a view.”
21.
Bliss v. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.)
90
, at
92, and 93
, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822)
.
“For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing concealed
arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be
unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise.”
“But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the
constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the
constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part
may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by
the constitution.”
(p.18
Why is this has been in the news each day? The liberal media.
I wish someone would just shut this commie A-hole up.
He shows his true stripes, and he’s crappy at everything.
Comey certainly made a crappy FBI chief. He KNOWS “crappy!”
Been an NRA member for almost fifty years now, and I have yet to see the organization “selling fear”. Just reality.
Gun grabbers are the source of the fear not the NRA.
Well, given that he is already a crappy individual the rest logically follows...
Comey, a fellow UniParty member? I'm sure he fit in quite nicely.
If only Attorney General Sessions was alive... /s
Comey was a crappy FBI Director. He would likely be crappy at anything he tries besides being a scumbag. He is good at scumbag.
“Sessions is doing a great job.”
Prove that assertion. Because from where I sit he ain’t doing jack other than showing up at a press conference or two.
Your standards are very, very low.
L
I am more afraid of the dirty cops in the DOJ having watch the Ruby Ridge \ Waco hearings on C-Span fast & furious also & the Bundy ranch siege The DOJ needs a house cleaning that would make one of Stalin’s purges look like a Sunday school class singing Jesus Loves me
Like Rudy says - Comey is a pathetic liar with an ego that won’t let him shut up and go away.
Crappy candidate? I got news for you Jimmy...you make a crappy human being.
James Comey on his Book tour:
“I hate the idea of asking people for money,” he told the crowd”
Thee irony runs strong and went way over this Clowns head.
Yes, I'm certain that it's preferable for people to come to you *offering* money - like, say, one of the Clintons' toadies.
Yep. Crappy humans make crappy candidates.
You bet he would make a crapy candidate. It’s difficult to run from a federal prison.
“I can see why Obama liked him.
But what the hell was he doing in George W. Bush’s Justice Department?”
The same thing Robert Gates was doing as CIA Director under George H.W. Bush, Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, and as the President of the Boy Scouts of America who decided to embrace gay scout leaders.
George W. Bush also gave us Chief Justice John Roberts and tried to give us Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court. When Congress passed a law authorizing the construction of a 700 mile wall along the southern border, Bush decided to implement a “virtual wall” instead of a physical wall. Over $1 billion that could have been spent on a physical barrier was wasted on a boondoggle for Boeing which was ultimately terminated because it did not work. At the 2009 cost of $3 million per mile, that wasted $1 billion would have funded 333 miles of physical barrier which would still be functional.
George W. Bush was not a conservative or the “compassionate conservative” he claimed to be. He was and is a globalist crony capitalist and social liberal. He and is father are firm members of the elite urban establishment. He has more in common with his friends Bill and Hillary Clinton than the average American middle class or working class citizen.
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