For so long, the left has wanted to frame gun ownership in terms of hunting. As in: “You don’t need that kind of gun for hunting.”
Now hunting is under attack by “science.”
For so long, the left has wanted to frame gun ownership in terms of hunting. As in: “You don’t need that kind of gun for hunting.”
Now hunting is under attack by “science.”
New York now, among other things, requires that all handguns sold in the state have microstamping technology installed in them.
New York citizens buy approximately half a million firearms a year. In contrast, Floridians buy about three times that many, 1.5 million.
My prediction is that this law will do nothing for solving crime, but that isn’t the goal. The goal here is to make owning a firearm impossibly expensive.
In case you are interested, Texans buy the most guns (1.6 million), Florida the runner up (1.4 million), then California (1.1 million), Pennsylvania (1 million), and Tennessee rounding out the top 5 with 700,00 firearms sold per year.
All of this because of an average of less than 20 fatalities a year involving shootings on school campus. Not mass shootings on school campus, ALL shootings on school campus, even those that happened when no students were present (at night, summer break, weekends, etc.) and it was simply one drug dealer shooting another.
The DOJ has assembled a panel of “experts” to study the Uvalde incident.
Every one of them is an antigun, pro police Democrat. I can already tell you what the findings of this whitewash will be.
The entire 4th circuit court of Appeals has ruled that the AR-15 is a “weapon of war” and is not protected by the Second Amendment. Shit is about to get spicy. Don’t count on the courts to stave this off.
The left is still hammering the “collective rights” theory. This attorney thinks that SCOTUS got it wrong on the Heller decision.
Carrying their logic to its extreme, if there is no limitation on the right to own a gun, all 330 million citizens of the United States must be part of a “well regulated Militia.” Are you? I’m not.
Actually, you ARE a part of the militia, whether or not you know it. The militia is actually composed of two parts: The organized militia (the National Guard) and the unorganized militia, which is comprised of all male US citizens between the ages of 17 and 45. See 10USC246:
§246. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
This so-called lawyer doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about, but that doesn’t stop him. He goes on:
No one would seriously argue you have the right to own a land mine or a nuclear-armed submarine.
Who says? The Second Amendment says “shall not be infringed,” and I believe that it DOES protect the right to own a nuclear armed submarine. Now, I am equally sure that many people would agree that citizens SHOULDN’T own a submarine armed with nuclear weapons. In that case, there is a process for changing that. It should not be difficult to get three quarters of the state legislatures and a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress to agree to add an Amendment to the Constitution that reads something along the lines of “No person shall be permitted to own a nuclear warhead.” I mean, the process is outlined right there in the paperwork.
What I can’t find in that Constitution is a clause that permits the government to ignore any clause which it, in its own judgment, finds inconvenient or irrelevant. That is EXACTLY what he argues, however:
The fundamental constitutional proposition many Republicans overlook is that no right is unlimited. That there is a limitation of our rights is fundamental to being civilized. So, for instance, the Supreme Court long ago held that your right to self-expression stops at the tip of the other guy’s nose. You have the right to own a car, but you don’t have the right to drive it at 100 mph through Downtown San Diego.
Of course no right is unlimited. He is just making a poor argument. No one has a right to own a car. There are all sorts of reasons why a person’s ability to own a car may be restricted, as any decent lawyer would know. I would also agree with him that a person doesn’t have the right to drive downtown at 100 miles per hour. A person does, however, have the right to own arms, to include firearms. What a person doesn’t have is the right to stand in the middle of a crowded street and fire that gun into a crowd, and no one is saying that they should, absent a legitimate exception like self defense.
If we are to allow the government to simply ignore the parts of the Constitution that they disagree with, then we can all agree that the founding documents of this nation are no longer relevant and are null and void. In that case, we might as well admit that might makes right, and we are a dictatorship after all.
If I lived in San Diego, I would not hire this moron as an attorney. He doesn’t seem very competent or knowledgeable.
The Democrats are the party who claim to be for the little guy. That’s why they are proposing a law that would tax guns by 1,000% and make them accessible only to criminal drug gangs and rich people.
Democrats say “spare me the bullshit about Constitutional Rights”
It’s coming. Stand by.
Just when you think that the left has reached peak stupid. Now Salon is claiming that we can stop gun violence worldwide by forcing the US military to no longer buy weapons. I wonder how the left thinks that the US military will be able to fight AR15 wielding gun owners if they are no longer allowed to have F15s and tanks?
This boomer is afraid of guns and claims that she has a right to live in an area without having to be afraid of guns. She is opposed to constitutional carry. How can you reason or discuss things with people who do not use reason, facts, or logic to arrive at decisions, but instead use emotion, fallacies, and imagination?
This moron thinks that the killers in the recent mass shootings were using machine guns, so this means that “Congress needs to pass a law to make it unlawful to manufacture, own, or borrow, or use, any automatic rifle capable of firing multiple rounds of bullets simultaneously.”
But it’s no wonder that people are confused, when the press is deliberately trying to confuse the issue by claiming that you can order “the same gun used by the Uvalde shooter” on the Internet “no questions asked” while misleading readers on the paperwork and background checks that are carried out at your local dealer.
Even the government gets in on it, as Nina Jankowicz says the ‘Ministry Of Truth’ would have prevented the Uvalde shooting.
Like I said earlier today, your rights are there to be sold out, used as bargaining chips so that Republicans can get and hold onto money and power. The Republicans think that your rights and your freedom are nothing more than silly items to be used at the negotiating table. After all, what are you going to do, vote for someone else?
So what are they going to cave on?
*Heller v DC holding: “Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.”