Posted on 01/14/2023 6:32:10 AM PST by VictimsRightsPro2a
Didn’t read the article? He killed her husband, and has stalked her for decades from prison.
Pick him up outside of the jail when he is released. Kill him. Find a nice spot for him in Nevada.
Annie is one of my all-time favorite Americans.
I know a lady who has one of those. She let me shoot it one day at the range, it’s actually a handy little gun. Works just fine and fun to shoot.
You make it sound so simple; but it's not, especially when there are kids. The victim actually has to prove the level of threat in a series of expensive court proceedings in order to keep herself and the kids safe. And it is the moment of taking the steps you mentioned — filing for divorce or actually moving out or compelling him to move — that statistically are the most likely times when women are killed by a violent spouse.
Sexual orientation isn’t a natural right with support in the Bill of Rights. Firearm possession and use is. Eddie Eagle belongs in schools. the other crap doesn’t.
Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?
The Congress isn't empowered in Article 1, Section 8 to educate all children on KABA. Further, even with the powers enumerated under the the militia clauses, that would exclude kids under 17. So sending cash and Eddie Eagle to schools would be unconstitutional.
More broadly, the elements that support free speech (also in the Bill of Rights) in the Department of Education would pass muster under your "use" test.
Only because the notion of “free speech” has been corrupted by the courts. It never meant anything in the Constitution other than the right to speak out about the government, to dissent. It was a fix to the practice of hanging people because they spoke out against the king.
Oh, “climate change” WILL devastate us, right? Bad ideas are more deadly than any virus.
It is true that bad ideas are worse for us than any virus (except that last one that wipes us all out)
At least you can get rid of a virus.
Conservatives rail against confiscatory rates of federal taxation funding "education" but cheer st the prospect of federally-funded firearms education in schools.
The Founders never intended for the federal govt to spend one nickel on educating children on firearms or free speech. But each side, allegedly standing in opposition, are all too happy to raid the treasury to fund their pet projects.
I disagree:
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.--Noah Webster--
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.--Thomas Jefferson--
There are many more indications that the Founders prescribed an education regarding their own governance.
Nothing in those quotes included advocacy for federal funding. Indeed, childrens' education at the time of the founding wasn't federally funded. Further,
Even in Boston, the capital city of the colony in which the government had the greatest hand, children were taught to read at home. Samuel Eliot Morison, in his excellent study on education in colonial New England, says:[10]
Boston offers a curious problem. The grammar (Boston Latin) school was the only public school down to 1684, when a writing school was established; and it is probable that only children who already read were admitted to that . . . . they must have learned to read somehow, since there is no evidence of unusual illiteracy in the town. And a Boston bookseller’s stock in 1700 includes no less than eleven dozen spellers and sixty-one dozen primers.
There is no way the Founders intended for the Feds to pay for educating children in the ways of free speech or firearms handling. I'll grant the the militia clauses in the Constitution provide for federal funding for many militia activities, but again that's at the adult level.
Prescinding from the funding issue, the Founders also hadn't any intent for the government to get into education. For example, the "collective model" of gun rights is a contemporary fabrication because there is no evidence that such a mindset existed in the 1700s. Same deal with education:
Home education was so common in America that most children knew how to read before they entered school. As Ralph Walker has pointed out, “Children were often taught to read at home before they were subjected to the rigours of school. In middle-class families, where the mother would be expected to be literate, this was considered part of her duties.[9] Without ever spending a dime of tax money, or without ever consulting a host of bureaucrats, psychologists, and specialists, children in early America learned the basic academic skills of reading, writing, and ciphering necessary for getting along in society.
I get the conservative desire for the federal government to pay for the GOOD stuff, and to starve the beast on the stuff those dregs over there like.
Leviathan, however, cuts both ways.
All of the Founders were very much in favor of education for the masses. They even stated that the Republic depended on it. They also understood that parents were not the best choice of instructors for the sciences and higher level mathematics. They were ALL college educated.
The Founders did not imagine that parents would send their children to schools without monitoring content and participating in the administration. The sorry state of the schools is a result in our abdication of control, not in the public availability of schools.
I have been through this many times with many people of FR. I'm not doing it again.
We are clearly at an impasse. Enjoy 2023.
Show me YOUR references that indicate the Founders held your philosophy. I have posted quotes from the Founders. You have posted only your opinion. Then you have the gall to tell me I’m the problem with this debate.
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