"Biden Pushes Universal Background Checks, ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban, Following MSU Attack"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that Congress has the express constitutional power to not only impeach and remove presidents from office, but also to override presidential vetoes.
In other words, anti-2nd Amendment (2A) career federal Democratic and RINO lawmakers are scapegoating a puppet president to do their dirty work to weaken 2A protections imo.
On the other hand, the Supreme Court had indicated in United States v. Cruikshank (Cruikshank) that the main purpose of 2A is to identify the untrusted federal government as a possible "enemy" of the people (my words).
"The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress [emphasis added]. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow citizens of the rights it recognizes, to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the "powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was, perhaps, more properly called internal police," "not surrendered or restrained" by the Constitution of the United States." —United States v. Cruikshank, 1875.
In my opinion, not only have the states never expressly constitutionally given the corrupt feds the specific power to make peacetime, non-militia-related, restrictive gun laws, but the Court's clarification of 2A in Cruikshank means that the amendment protects citizens from having to let the feds know anything about their personal firepower, or qualifications to use that firepower (state power issues now limited by 14th Amendment (14A).
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
H O W E V E R...
Also, consider that the states gave Congress the 14A power to make peacetime, gun-related laws (Oh-Noes!).
H O W E V E R again...
The great irony concerning the fed's 14A power to "regulate" firearms is this. Fourteenth Amendment limits Congress's power to make "gun" laws to penal laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights, including 2A.
In fact, the congressional record shows that when Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, read the Bill of Right as main examples of privileges and immunities that the states have protected, he included 2A.
“See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about middle of 2nd column.” — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe
The post-Civil War Supreme Court put it this way about 14A protections.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnished an additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
The bottom line is that when it comes to corrupt state and federal governments, US citizens are “fire fighters,” not “fire preventers” imo.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Otherwise stated... patriots, what is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties oppressing everybody under their boots?
The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, political party treason (imo)...
All MAGA patriots need to wake up their Democratic & RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.
If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.
Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.
"Never Accept the Premise Language of Your Opponent’s Argument ..." either.
Because when you engage in an argument about "gender" (instead of "sex") or "high capacity" (instead of "standard capacity") magazines, or "the gun show loophole" (when what they're really arguing against is "the right to peaceably assemble"), and so-on and so-forth, then you're consciously walking out onto an intellectual battlefield that they already have groomed to their advantage and littered with land mines.
If you think you're going to win the argument after conceding them those advantages, they you're just the rube they've been looking for.