Posted on 06/22/2016 1:35:09 PM PDT by PROCON
Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., called for a revision of the Second Amendment during Wednesday's "sit-in" on the House floor, which has shut down the House while Democrats demand a vote on gun control legislation.
"The Second Amendment needs some changing, because Americans don't agree with it and we've had it," Doyle shouted on the House floor. "We're not going to watch any more people in this country get slaughtered and do nothing."
House Democrats are occupying the well of the floor in order to demand a vote on gun control legislation, such as a ban on weapons sales to people on the terror watch list.
They've vowed not to leave until House Republicans grant a vote on that bill, making the "sit-in" a rough approximation of a Senate filibuster. They were joined briefly on the House floor by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Murphy, who staged a talking filibuster for the same purpose last week.
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They don’t believe in protecting the Constitution. They are against our form of government. They need to be arrested and tried.
I’m ok with this. If they want to revise the 2nd Amendment, fine. Propose a new version and send it to the states for ratification. Good luck on getting 2/3 of the states to ratify. Meanwhile, the existing version is in effect.
The problem with the democrats is they know they cannot revise the 2nd Amendment through the process described in the Constitution so they want to find a new version emanating from some prenumbra.
Which Americans don’t agree? Are you talking about all of the foreign-born immgrants who just got here who want us disarmed so they can assault and kill us? That would be a VERY small percentage of Americans.
...and waterboarded before having all of their assets seized and, then. exiled.
Exactly. They somehow don’t seem to care about the daily killing in Chicago. Interesting point....
Ban Democrats. Strip them of citizenship and deport them to Cuba or North Korea. Maybe Venezuela.
Roughed up? I hope illegal aliens break in and murder them! I would laugh at such poetic justice.
Yes, agreed. There is probably a large number of people on the list who a) don’t know they’re on the list, and b) are on there erroneously and should be removed.
Ya know, jerk wads, there is a process for that. Try it.
You will fail.
Granted, it will destroy the country, because it will become a different country. But, that is perfectly allowed under the Constitution. Until 1865, the States believed that they could dissolve their bounds to the Union as the UK are likely to do tomorrow with respect to the EU. Only after the Civil War was the union deemed to be indissoluble. Most of the New England States considered just that during the War of 1812.
If changing an Amendment is Treason, then whomever is in power will defy the will of the people and convict for Treason anyone who supports a change to the Constitution that is not agreeable to the party in power.
The SCOTUS has already said so.
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Please note: In some web pages this passage has been removed as irrelevant to the Dred Scot decision. You really have to HUNT for a web page that has it.
“”We’re not going to watch any more people in this country get slaughtered and do nothing””
We’re going to do nothing about bringing more muslims into the country who WILL SLAUGHTER you and we want to make sure you won’t have any guns to defend yourselves. Are you kidding, Jack? Where on earth do these idiots come from? Do they have one working brain cell? Just one????
Hey, you worthless human beings - tell all the guards at the Capitol to go home and don’t bother coming back because you don’t need them to protect your sorry butts anymore!!!
It helps to clarify the current crisis.
“”Wall off the chamber and let these Traitorous Bastards starve””
Read a book once where the plot was gas being pumped into the chambers. I’ll be darned if I can remember what the book was....
Is there any way to tell them - all 435 of the House members - that we’ll listen to them when they give up their protection at the capitol? No more Capitol police! I don’t feel like sending 435 emails or making 435 phone calls. How do we get through to these nitwits?
“More traitorous talking points from the House Democrats...”
Although not obvious, this is a GOOD SIGN. Consider:
1) It means that Democrats AGREE with us that the Second Amendment (and by default, the US Constitution) is more than just toilet paper to them - that is NEW!
2) The Constitution was DESIGNED TO BE CHANGED, following the set of rules that are laid out - which is 2/3’s House and Senate, plus 38 states (I think). If the gun control freaks can get those numbers, then the country deserves what it gets. But they will NEVER get those numbers...hence the next point.
3) By admitting that the CONSTITUTION precludes far-reaching gun control, the Dems cannot then run to the Courts and have the courts simply ignore the Constitution. Well, of course they can, and they will - but now we have them ON THE RECORD admitting that the Constitution limits what they (and the courts) can legally do.
Of course their admission here likely won’t change anything, but, for once, the Democrats are actually PLAYING BY THE RULES - which means, in this case, if you want far-reaching gun control, you need to change the Constitution - not ignore it.
Then why won’t Mike Doyle or any other rat propose a constitutional amendment to change the 2A? Rhetorical question, I know the answer.
here comes the end of Due Process, the end of the 2nd, 5th and 14v amendments. Hell, why don’t they just start kicking in doors and start gunning down “the resistance” now? Oh, they’ll wait till after the elections and then go for the total police state
>>>”We’re not going to watch any more people in this country get slaughtered and do nothing.”>>>
So, is he proposing a Bill that will close down Planned Parenthood?
They are all wannabe tyrants. This is the party that is everything our founders warned us about.
It is surreal to see what cowards they have proven to be. Bunch of Darth Vaders really.
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