Dems want $50 million for biased research to attack gun ownership

Democrats in the U.S. House are likely to approve spending $50 million in taxpayer funds for public health research on gun violence. While that may sound like a good idea at first glance, it really wouldn’t do anything to reduce gun violence in our country.

I testified Thursday before the House Appropriations Committee’s health subcommittee to inject facts into the discussion of the Democratic bill.

Thank you for referencing that article rogerantone1.

Regarding federal firearms laws, patriots are reminded that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend ONLY for military purpose arms evidenced by a few clauses in Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, no express power in Section 8 to deal with peacetime civil firearms. (Note no express constitutional power for constitutionally undefined EPA or IRS (others?) to buy and use firearms imo.)

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In fact the constitutional record shows that constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham had clarified that, until the 14th Amendment (14A) was ratified, the states had never given Congress the express power to make civil penal code related to firearms, not even for murder.

"... our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union, The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See bottom half of third column.)

Bingham was pointing out that 14A gave Congress limited new power to make civil penal laws, such laws limited to discouraging state actors, not ordinary citizens, from using state powers to abridge rights that the states amend the Constitution to expressly protect.

In other words, in addition to having power to regulate military firearms, consider the irony that corrupt Congress now the 14A power to make 2A-related gun laws that STRENGTHEN the gun rights of citizens, such federal laws limiting state powers to regulate guns.

The Supreme Court put it this way about Congress’s enumerated rights-related 14A powers in Minor v. Happersett.

“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

It is disturbing that federal civil gun control laws seem to have started appearing in the books during the time of Democrat FDR, FDR and Democratic Congress at that time infamous for making laws that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

Corrections, insights welcome.

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