Posted on 09/08/2019 3:58:18 AM PDT by WWG1WWA
A back fire may help save some homes from a wildfire but the same principal doesn’t apply when it comes to our civil rights A Republican Senator is saying the we should sacrifice some of our 2nd Amendment gun ownership rights so the democrats don’t take all of our gun rights in the future. Listen, you don’t negotiate with terrorists or the devil. This is quite possibly the dumbest thing a Republican has ever suggested.
The Hill reports that Republican Indiana Senator Mike Braun is ready to sacrifice some of our gun rights in hopes that that the rest of our gun rights will be saved.
“I look at it this way, if we’re not willing to do the commonsense stuff probably legislation will occur that we’ll regret that will actually I think will infringe upon Second Amendment rights down the road,” Braun said.
And what, pray tell, is the “commonsense” stuff?
“I think for those of us that want to always make sure that law-abiding citizens can own and bear and use a weapon, that we’ve got to talk about it and start doing some things or else I think we’ll get overwhelmed to where we’ll lose down the road that Second Amendment right,” said Braun.
For a guy who says “I think” that much, he sure isn’t thinking at all. There are numerous problems with his willingness to capitulate some of our gun rights to the democrats.
First, there is the 2nd Amendment, which guarantees our right to keep and bear arms. This right is backed up by a Supreme Court decision that says gun ownership is an individual right and the we are all allowed to own guns “in common use.” The democrats can try to pass whatever gun control laws they like, but they can’t get around the Constitution on this. To negotiate away our rights when they have absolutely nothing to bargain with is incredibly stupid.
Second, there is no negotiating with democrats. It either their way or nothing. Period. They won’t give an inch and expect the other side (our side) to give up everything. There is no give and take with them, just take.
Lastly, any sacrifice of our gun rights is not the end for democrats, but the beginning. Their endgame is the the abolishment of the 2nd Amendment and the complete disarmament of the American people. Look at New York and California, states controlled entirely by democrats. They have the strictest gun control laws in the country and yet every single year they pass more gun control laws. It’s never enough for them and encouraging them by caving on some minor issues will only lead to more demands.
If you need any proof of the democrats unwillingness to negotiate, just look at immigration. They wouldn’t trade border security funding for permanent legal status for DACA recipients. The reason is because they want open borders and citizenship for every single scumbag who sneaks in the country. They will accept nothing less.
The same is true on gun control. Republicans couldn’t get a deal for concealed carry reciprocity in exchange for universal background checks because democrats are only willing to move in the direction of total disarmament.
Sacrificing some of our gun rights because we might loose more in the future is dumb on so many levels. We currently have a Republican President and Senate so democrats can’t do a damn thing about anything. Should they somehow gain control of the White House and the Senate, there’s still the 2nd Amendment and the DC v. Heller decision so they still couldn’t do a damn thing about it.
The only way democrats can impose their gun control wet dreams is by repealing the 2nd Amendment and that’s never going to happen. Negotiating away our rights based on an impossibility is something so stupid it sounds like an idea that would come from a democrat. Shame on Senator Mike Braun for even floating this.
How about giving up just a “little” of these:
Free Speech
Freedom from due process
Life
Liberty
Pursuit of happiness.....
I thought Braun was one of the good, new guys.
He seemed so sensible. Something must be in that swamp water.
Starting with Congress.then filtering down the government food chain.
No, and they are welcome to try - personally. But of course they lack the actual courage for that.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love FREEDOM enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ,
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
caps on FREEDOM mine
Leaves me coming up short either way.
There is no “commonsense” ... that’s just a code word for what we want this week.
It’s better to be Deplorable than to even try to get along. Getting along is a mistake. They won’t start liking you are pressing for more stuff you don’t like.
They will always want more whenever you accommodate them, kinda like Jihadis, so the only rational approach is to flatly oppose them.
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Let’s offer Braun to be primaried.
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Remind people of the Colfax Massacre and who the Democrats really are.
As I see it, the two of you are in the running for comment of the day. Both comments are 100% accurate.
If, God Willing, the President gets a second term, he just needs to open the door to everything these backstabbing bastards have been doing for the last 40 years.
I firmly believe that the Governors and State Legislatures could do much, much more to help the President and resist the Left, but most of them are no different than guys like Braun and every other RINO is Congress. Just greedy f**ks that use their positions to fill their pockets and those of their donors & friends.
Stupidity.
I disagree agree but just slightly.
The 17th amendment needs to be repealed
What a dumb a$$!
Great. Then we will have the same protection as unborn babies.
Why? It’s a major reason why we’re still holding on to the Senate.
CDC Director because of 4 deaths wants to outlaw Vaping.
They can’t make up their minds what caused them. Vitamin E excess or THC that is found in MMJ.
He doesn’t care that his Lies cost, the lives of many Intractable Pain Patients, they admit to 40 suicides, ignore the VA ones as PSTD and all the heart attacks are blamed on the person’s diseases. https://reason.com/2019/08/21/new-survey-data-confirm-that-opioid-deaths-do-not-correlate-with-pain-pill-abuse-or-addiction-rates/?fbclid=IwAR16IWU03wQ8opzjQUaAshUDth5a2epjUDkngmjNyAz5YkcoIh9kYfYUHmM
Is Mike Braun any relation to Eva?
Looks like Republicans in Indiana need to find a new Senator.
If you like California’s gun laws just keep voting GOP because that’s is what you’ll get sooner or later.
They all take the oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. For every one of them who dishonors their oat, throw them out of office, they aren’t fit to serve.
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