Posted on 02/25/2018 8:11:54 AM PST by billorites
While executives at Delta, United, Avis, etc. are virtue signaling as loudly as they can to assure us they want nothing to do with those supposed gun nuts in the National Rifle Association and are ending discounts (such as they were) for members of that organization, a real-world observation of what went on in the Parkland tragedy, not to mention other key contemporary events, might yield a radically different conclusion.
To wit: The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has much to recommend it. Indeed, we may need it more than ever.
Let's start with Parkland. It's evident now, no matter what you think of current gun laws, that a myriad of governmental bureaucracies and police departments -- from school authorities to social workers to the FBI to the Broward County Sheriff's Office -- screwed up on a level that borders on the incomprehensible. Blinded by a mutually reinforcing cocktail of political correctness and organizational stupidity and ineptitude, they were clueless about the near constant acting out of Nikolas Cruz.
He could have flown across the country in a hot air ballon, dropping buckets of blood and guts and trailing a banner reading "I'm Gonna Shoot Up a School," and these clowns wouldn't have done anything. When Cruz actually started shooting, they behaved like the most execrable cowards, the police hiding behind cars while students and teachers were dying. That their boss, Sheriff Scott Israel, still has his job is the most incomprehensible development of all.
Would anybody in his right mind trust these people with his own security, let alone those of his children?
Is it any surprise that when President Trump asked his CPAC audience Friday which was more important to them -- the Second Amendment or tax form -- they chose the right to bear arms?
he ultimate reason that that amendment came to be was something just as crucial (perhaps more, if that's possible) as personal or family protection -- and I bet almost everyone in that CPAC crowd knew it.
It was for the citizenry to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.
But isn't that from a different era, you might ask, when people were running around with muskets? Hardly. In 1938, Hitler forbid all Germany's Jews from having guns. We know where he went from there. Stalin and Mao, the two greatest mass murderers of history, controlled the weaponry in their societies. "Power," Mao famously wrote in the Little Red Book, "comes from the barrel of a gun."
Ironically, it is some of the same people, most specifically the FBI in this case, who allowed the carnage in Parkland that are threatening our democratic republic on a political level. That organization, we have learned, essentially acted in cahoots with one of our political parties to suborn a court to enable the spying on another of our political parties and later on our president. This weekend we have confirmation that that took place because the memo finally released by the Democratic wing of the House Intelligence Committee shows no evidence that the FISA court was informed that the Steele Dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign. All that is there are the most tepid of euphemisms.
This is, of course, the stuff of incipient totalitarianism. This is why James Madison and the other Founders proposed we adapt the Second Amendment from British Common Law. They saw into a future beyond muskets and AR-15s and Glocks and even drones, lasers and whatever else people will use on each other.
Yes, it's complicated. And, yes, there are some points to be made on the side of gun control. I'm one of those who thinks the age of purchase should be raised to twenty-one, in part because we live in era when our children are maturing so slowly. Our college campuses are clear evidence of that. I'd also be happy with longer waiting periods. But the right to bear arms is sacrosanct....
Which reminds me. I'm late with renewing my NRA membership. Mr. LaPierre, check your mailbox.
I too, want guns kept out of the hands of Broward young punks - so sign me up for raising the age to 21 at which a person can buy firearms.
As for the rest of it - NO to gun confiscation. Period.
"Do you understand that the Second Amendment was passed to provide a means of enforcing the Third Amendment?"
99 times out of a 100 the response is crickets, after which I say:
"I thought so. Typical leftist mouth with no brains behind it."
I told a gun grabber that “I suppose you are for killing babies but don’t want good, law abiding people to protect themselves and their families”. He huffed off.
“As for the rest of it - NO to gun confiscation. Period.”
They plan to attack us administratively and incrementally.
The need for the 2nd amendment is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the degree of the effort the left is trying to destroy it...they’re up to no good.
Yep. To be pedantic about it, to continue to move incrementally toward disarming the public.
Sundown at Coffin Rock by Raymond K. Paden
“They plan to attack us administratively and incrementally.”
Soon they will be calling for no gun purchase before the age of 45 and that men with enlarged prostates and menupausal women are too unhealthy to be trusted with guns.
I’ve been a member of the NRA for many years and will continue.
Speaking of which, did you see what the left is doing now? Spreading around this BS that the 2nd was created to keep blacks enslaved. FOUR times I’ve seen that crap on social media. Once again they are using their usual M.O. of lying and all the low infos buy into it and no doubt they will tag the 2nd as racist
Either you have full rights at 18 or you do not. Raising age to 21 just further errodes the 2nd Amendment. Founding fathers considered the Militia all able bodied males 16 to 45.
2nd Amendment bump for later....
Adam Lanza used his mother’s guns at Sandy Hook. Raising the age to 21 is just a leftist feel good knee jerk. It will do nothing to stop school shootings. Armed security guards at the door will stop them.
Everybody and their dog knew this kid was a problem. He should have been intervened on.
No you don’t. You can’t drink until you’re 21. Adulthood requires a certain level of maturity and character.
Moreso with owning a firearm.
I get the same trash arguments with the 3/5ths clause. The lefties will say it was one of two things, that it was giving power to the south, or that it was that whites only see blacks as 3/5ths a human being. Both seriously wrong and easily proved but they start running around with their hands over their ears yelling “la la la la la I can’t hear you” when you show them the truth of such things.
IMO, if an adult is 18, they have the Rights & privileges afforded to ALL.
(De/In)crease the cut-off evenly; if arms are so dangerous to anyone 18yrs or younger:
- So is voting, as they could vote govt to take life/property/freedom (SHOULDN’T be able to, but we’re post-Constitutional at this point)
- Driving...talk about a 2.5T WEAPON
- Selective Service (GOVT ‘training’ doesn’t immediately make one ‘safe’, right?)
IMO, the best recourse: *Mandate* gun safety be part of K-12 ‘education’; then the Leftists would have no complaints about ‘training’. Then hit ‘em again via ‘sex education’...which is more important and can be ‘home taught’??
Gun Control was introduced to keep Blacks from defending themselves from the Democrat Ku Klux Klan.
Now they want more Gun Control to prevent Constitution loving Patriots from defending themselves against Democrat Brown Shirts.
The one word answer when asked why I support the Second Amendment, Liberals. They are proving my point every day.
Because liberals.
Because tyrants.
Because liberal tyrants.
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