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EDITOR:
Sylvia Medley is correct, she does not need a tutorial on what is or is not an “assault” weapon. What she, and many others, truly need, is a tutorial on our Constitution.
The Second Amendment is not about hunting, or hobbies, or anything of that nature. It specifically states, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The specific purpose of the amendment is for the people to be able to “protect themselves from a tyrannical government.” To do so means the people need comparable weapons to what would be used against them.
Make no mistake, our government is becoming ever more tyrannical. Every modern tyrant followed the same course, disarm the people. It couldn’t be any clearer unless you simply refuse to see the obvious.
WILLARD F. SCHMEHL
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2/2 of the Constitution is not too difficult to read. “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States,” very much to the point. Followed by “and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;”. This second phrase expressly signifies that “the Militia” does in fact not answer solely to the the commander in chief and does in fact exist outside of the ultimate authority of the president and only falls under his command “when called into actual service of the United States”. The Militia as mentioned in 2/2 is not exclusive to the civilian command of the executive branch as the army and the navy are. The Militia is not regular army or military and is not ever defined as such by the framers of the Constitution, who were the same guys who had every suspicion that our government would eventually become self-aware and abuse its defined limitations, leading to the loss of liberty and freedom. The 2nd Amendment being only inconvenient to those with no good intentions was purposely listed in the bill of rights “being necessary to the security of a free State”, notice how it does not mention “the United States”, “the right of the people”, again no metion of the government, “shall not be infringed”. The 2nd Amendment puts states rights and the peoples rights ahead of the federal government including the executive branch. 2/2 does not put the Militia under the authority of the president. It makes the Militia available to defend the United States keeping in mind that the framers never viewed the United States as the federal government.
Tom Gibney, lookie is obsessed with me. I have that effect on leftists. I can recite all the nonsense they have been trained to believe as well if not better than they can. I know leftism inside-out and backwards and the way I discuss it and expose it tends to send them into an unbalanced state of mind, not that they were balanced to begin with. They are childish in their very nature which is why they are leftists so a little coaxing is all it takes to bring it to the surface. The thing they fail to realize is all of us have been exposed to the exact same leftist indoctination but some of us just never figured we had to believe any of it. They don’t practice critical thinking and discernment so convincing them of ridiculous things is not to difficult. algore has made hundreds of millions by convincing them that we can control the weather. The king of carbon footprint sells his failed network to one of the largest oil producers on the planet and they still don’t understand how big a suckers they are.
Here is one tiny example of the overreach of the federal government. For those of you who can’t understand why the rest of us know what happens when you start giving the government permission to make what ever laws it choses. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/26/study-finds-gulf-states-are-biggest-targets-government-overcriminalization/?test=latestnews
Cookie the environmentalist has brought this nation to its knees, while China and the rest of the world disregard most international laws regarding environmental issues. United States have let the environmentalist take control of everyone’s destination, there is no longer a pursuit of happiness , you have 1000 acres and it is loaded with gold, but you’re not allowed to mine it because there is a chipmunk that “they” say is endangered. You can’t fight them unless you have money coming out of your ears. They bring law suits against the government knowing that under the Federal law Equal Rights to Justice Act that they will get reimbursed for their attorney fees. How do you fight something like this? The Center for Biological Diversity has over 23 attorneys and they are suing the government continually and the government instead of fighting just submits to their claims, proof or no proof. We lose they win; what has our nation become?
Mr Gibney — I disagree with your view that the Constitution is written in “plain English”. It was written over 200 years ago by a collection of the best minds the world has probably ever seen. Every word was carefully selected; every phrase thoroughly debated. Mr Martin has pointed out that the meaning of the term “regulated” is more in line with “regular” than “regulation”. He gave the example of “well supplied”. Mr Martin — what else did the founders mean by “well regulated”? Trained? What else?
I have found multible sources that find the same etymology of the word ‘regulated’ in the time period. http://yarchive.net/gun/politics/regulate.html
“multiple”
Cookie65 — thanks for the link. The author’s conclusion is in line with my understanding…’Therefore I conclude that the meaning of the 2nd Amendment is, “A
properly functioning Militia is necessary to the security of a free
State; therefore the (pre-existing) right of the people to keep and bear
Arms shall not be infringed.”‘ We have the “supply” aspect of that in a big way. So where is the “discipline” and “training”? Clearly we do not have a “well regulated” militia today.
Cookie you will never change the mind of a left wing radical; they have been brought up to believe that the government is the determining factor of who gets and who gets not. They are the ones that have received these large retirement benefits and wages twice what the private sector receives, why would they want to change what has done them well. “It will never happen”
Martin and Cookie: I agree. Reality has a decidedly Liberal bias. It just don’t seem fair.
Kenneth, you are correct. The reality is we are roughly $16 trillion in debt, out of control healthcare costs, unsustainable pulic pension debt, out of control crime, more poverty than ever, a stopped dead in its tracks economy, business’ laying off and closing, more taxation and regulation than in all of human history, out of control immigration, cities filing for bankruptcy, massive corruption in government, sustained unemployment at unacceptable levels, the middle east on fire, our allies left out to dry, the collapse of socialism all over the globe, 47 million on food stamps. Yep, reality has a liberal bias.
and you are more than welcome to continue to dwell in unreality.
Replying to Tom Gibney’s January 27, 12:03 a.m. question to Lookie and me: “Have you a different view of the constitution?” Tom, would you please clarify what appears to you to be different about the view you have of the constitution compared with mine? Specific references quoted directly from the constitution with citations of the Article/Section and/or Amendment would be appreciated.
Thanks!