Posted on 06/03/2022 10:58:52 AM PDT by RandFan
Democrats aren't serious about ending school shootings, but they are serious about taking your guns.
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Did Biden make a speech?
They want our guns. Next, our freedom.
The Kabuki Theater is directed to that end.
That’s the rumor...
Give up your guns and we’ll be like Venezuela in a matter of months.
they also want our 1st amendment rights- but first they have to get our 2nd amendment rights- (although they are trying like the devil to usurp free speech right now-)
Unfortunately Massie is a minority of the GOP caucus.
Most of them are Assistant Democrats.
What’s interesting is he on Fix news. Usually they control who can go on and speak about topics like this...
He also some how got on the judiciary committee after previously being isolated.
The problem is in the Senate with the usual suspects, not the House? Manty Bush Leaguers are retiring and the new wave should include a lot of America First representatives.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens after the election.
As freepers read this post, please bear in mind that, as a consequence of growing up with an unconstitutionally big federal government, we've all been indoctrinated to unthinkingly ask "how high" every time the big bad feds shout "JUMP!," never mind the fed's constitutionally limited powers.
That being said, please consider the following problem concerning the Bill of Rights (BoR) identified by early supporters of the Constitution.
Early defenders of the Constitution were concerned that, since the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to deal with the rights expressly protected by the BoR, the 2nd Amendment (2A) for example, the BoR would ultimately eclipse (my word) the idea that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime restrictive gun laws, even if there was no 2A.
“The defenders of the Constitution argued that a bill of rights would undermine the idea of a government with limited powers." — Ed Feulner, We Almost Didn't Have the Bill of Rights, CNSNews, 12-14-16."
"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 the context of 10th Amendment (10A)-prohibited federal powers emphasized in United States v. Butler (Butler) excerpt above, while the 1st Amendment (1A) expressly prohibits Congress from having certain powers, people today don't seem to understand that the Constitution's silence about certain issues, like peacetime, non-militia-related use of firearms, is just as significant as 1A's famous "Congress shall make no law...".
Fortunately, the congressional record shows that a well-respected constitutional expert, Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had enumerated what the Constitution's silence about peacetime, non-militia-related use of firearms tells us about federal firearms laws under the rules of 10A, such laws unconstitutional imo, even to discourage murder to help career desperate Democrats get reelected.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"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 [emphases added]. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day.” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
In fact, in stark contrast to the Supreme Court's emphasis of the reasonably clear meaning of 10A in Butler excerpt above, using inappropriate (imo) terms like "concept" and "implicit," here is what was left of 10A after FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard).
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood. Certain activities such as "production," manufacturing, and "mining" were occasionally said to be within the province of state governments and beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
But while FDR's activist justices effectively politically “repealed” 10A in Wickard by treating it like a wives' tale imo, the drafters of the BoR had also effectively “repealed” 10A, even if inadvertently, by "hiding" it at the bottom of the document imo, 1&2A now arguably regarded as the Constitution in its entirety by many constitutionally low-information people.
In fact, I possibly wouldn't be making this post if the “long-forgotten” 10A had actually been drafted as the 1st Amendment, followed by what are now the 1st and 2nd Amendments, numbered as 2nd and 3th Amendments respectively.
"1st Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"2nd Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"3rd Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
If Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters understood the significance of constitutionally express federal government powers, and therefore the "Congress shall make no law..." as it applies to peacetime, non-militia-related use of firearms under the rules of the long-forgotten 10A, the unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government would come tumbling down on peacetime, non-militia-related restrictive firearms laws, along with many other constitutionally indefensible federal laws in the books imo.
In fact, consider that the main reason (imo) that there are now non-militia-related restrictive gun laws in the federal books is because constitutionally limited federal government power-ignoring FDR was the first president to establish such laws.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Corrections, insights welcome.
Finally, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
Lindsey agrees with Joe on every count. That man needs to be voted out
As I recall, w/out looking it up again, the NFAC group was in Louisville, KY, during the ‘troubles.’ They managed to shoot three (3) people. In their own group. Accidentally. During a stand down in a staging ares. Poor safety procedures. doh!
Kyle Rittenhouse also shot three people, as a last resort, to defend himself from attack. Well done.
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