Posted on 09/16/2015 8:24:38 AM PDT by HomerBohn
This past week Jeb Bush was a guest on The Late Show with new host Stephen Colbert when Bush said something that some conservative voters might find shocking.
When Colbert asked the Governor if the Constitution implied a national right to gun ownership, Bush seemed to indicate that he believed each state had the right to legislate gun ownership as they see fit.
Stephen Colbert: Well, the right to have an individual firearm to protect yourself is a national document, in the Constitution, so shouldn't that also be applied national…
Jeb Bush: No. Not necessarily…There's a 10th amendment to our country, the Bill of Rights has a 10th amendment that says powers are given to the states to create policy, and the federal government is not the end all and be all. That's an important value for this country, and it's an important federalist system that works quite well.
After the story broke, the Bush campaign contacted the Daily Caller to explain that Bush is a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment and that he wasn't trying to argue that states have the right to limit the 2nd Amendment.
Governor Bush is a strong 2nd amendment advocate and reiterated his view that the federal government should not be passing new gun control laws. He believes in states rights and as Governor of Florida he used the 10th Amendment to expand gun rights with a "Six Pack of Freedom" bill and received an A+ ratings from the NRA.
While I appreciate what Governor Bush was trying to say in the interview, that the states are supposed to have as much power as the federal government (thus creating our federal system), on this issue, he is wrong. See, that's the whole point of the Bill of Rights. It's an enumeration of our specific rights that the federal government AND the states must respect. If the 2nd Amendment did not exist… then his 10th Amendment argument would make sense.
Colbert wasn't asking if the government could expand gun rights, he was saying that since the right to gun ownership is nationally mandated so too should gun laws be nationally mandated.
While Jeb tries to use a states-right argument here, he should have simply turned Colbert's argument back on itself. Because the Constitution mandates the right to gun ownership, this means that the federal government (and the state governments) have no right legislating against gun ownership. If we can't trust Jeb to counter a simple and easily refuted attack on the 2nd Amendment, how can we trust him with more complex issues?
Jeb is the third in a family line of New World Order adherents. His father was the first politician to use the phrase "New World Order" in a speech when he was President. The Communists and their sycophants are deeply embedded in our governmental and they are not going away soon. We were warned about the coming Communist takeover some 70 years ago.
“When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take it under the label of communism; we will not take it under the label socialism. These labels are unpleasant to the American people.
Just lost any chance he might have had for my vote.
Stick a fork in him.
Yeb in trying to move to the left of Bernie Sanders.
Jesse Jackson was SO right when he said,”Stay out da Bushs!”
Jeb is committing suicide. Trump should point out Jeb’s gun position tonight.
Why would he need to own a gun? His personal protection agents and security personnel have plenty. Does Mr. Obama “own” a gun? Does John Ellis Bush’s brother or father? Does Gloria Vanderbilt or her son Anderson Cooper?
My goodness the more I hear of this jerk-off the less I like him, and his entire family of one-world-government idiots.
He's running for the presidency of Mexico North.
Have any of the Bush clan wowed us with their intellect? Case closed. We certainly should never have another Bush president.
The answer is pretty clear from the text of the first teo amendments. Compare the first: “Congress shall make no law ... “ with the second: “...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” There was is no limitation in the second on who shall not infringe. It is a blanket prohibition on all branches and levels of government.
Yepper. He cooked his goose.
Boy, that is going rack up votes for Ol’ Jeb, eh?
I guess he’s unfamiliar with the Heller and McDonald decisions. Must be because they weren’t spelled out in Spanish.
Crash and burn..
This is what happens when a Mexican runs for president. He doesn’t know US law and history.
His Father and Brother know that the second amendment is a ‘RIGHT’ not a privilege in this country....
The text of the Second Amendment which is found in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights is the following: ” 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.”
and they didn't tell him this? What other stuff haven't they told him? You think that's why ‘mama’ told him NOT TO RUN, because there is something REALLY wrong with this idiot!!!!
Wow, he is really an idiot. He can’t even READ the constitution. This issue is pretty damn clear. It’s not an 10th amendment issue because it IS specifically enumerated. He must be going for the liberal gun control vote? Why were we told he was the smart one?
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