No, Ted Cruz, the 2nd Amendment doesn’t protect your right to rebellion

AMERICAblog ^ | April 17, 2015 | Jon Green

[Future Snake Eater]

An AR-15 doesn’t hold a candle to your local police force

LOL...this guy obviously didn't pay attention to what a couple of Eastern Europeans with pistols did to the entire Boston police force. Imagine a squad-sized element with ARs and actually motivated to take the fight to the cops?

[don-o]

Great post for the snips and your comments as well. I do wonder what actual percentage of the populace can even understand the propositions so eloquently set forth and explained.

[MileHi]

And in the 18th Century, if you opened your sentence (like this one) with a clause and a comma, everything after that clause pertained only to that clause.

Nice try.

[saleman]

He’s an idiot. But I do agree with one thing he said:

“then why not Uzis? Why not RPGs? Why not frag grenades and anti-tank missiles and M24 Sniper Weapons Systems (the M24 is a sniper rifle so powerful that apparently the military doesn’t think calling it a “rifle” does it justice)? Hell, why not your own Black Hawk attack helicopter? I’m sure Sikorsky Aircraft, the company that makes them, would sell you one if you could afford it.”

M24 “sniper weapons system”. Humph..”They” don’t call it a rifle because the military is very fond of hyperbole.

[2ndDivisionVet]

When I worked in the 1980’s as civilian state security at an Air Guard base we either carried Air Force M-16s (120 rounds) or S&W Model 15 K frame .38s (18 rounds) depending on our assignment. The police in that state capitol city walked mighty small around us, as I remember it. They had pistols and maybe a shotgun in their patrol cars.

[MrB]

From the Declaration:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[MileHi]

Agree with what?

[2ndDivisionVet]

If 3rd world “peasants” in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere can figure out how to build bombs, does he think that tens of millions of “insurrectionists” in a first world nation won’t? Can he be that dumb?

[Paul46360]

2ndDivisionVet comments

[Zionist Conspirator]

The Brazilian Left wants to dissolve the armed forces and redistribute their weapons to the people. The American Left wants to redistribute the people's weapons to the armed forces.

Are we sure these two cases represent the same ideology?

[Jack Black]

Cruz is in a third place in the current RCP Poll average.

2016 Republican Presidential Nomination

Poll	Date	Bush	Walker	Cruz	Paul	Carson	Huckabee	Rubio	Christie	Perry	Santorum	Jindal	Kasich	Spread
RCP Average	3/13 - 3/31	16.5	15.3	10.5	9.8	9.0	8.5	7.3	5.5	2.8	1.7	1.3	1.3	Bush +1.2
FOX News	3/29 - 3/31	12	15	10	9	11	10	8	4	3	2	2	1	Walker +3
ABC/Wash Post	3/26 - 3/29	21	13	12	8	6	8	8	7	1	2	1	1	Bush +8
PPP (D)	3/26 - 3/31	17	20	16	10	10	6	6	4	3	--	--	--	Walker +3
CNN/ORC	3/13 - 3/15	16	13	4	12	9	10	7	7	4	1	1	2	Bush +3

[MileHi]

Oh, I see. So do I.

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks.

It is clear from these writings that the Framers expected the federal government to respect the sovereignty of the states, and treat them as partners in governing the nation.

Not so much today.

-PJ

[2ndDivisionVet]

I think our left is more fascist/Nazi than the South American, which skews Maoist.

[Gargantua]

Nothing but the best for my little doggie!

LMAO

Can we be Frank here? LOL

[Ohioan]

Jon Green goes on, at great length, to ignore the obvious consensus of the Founding Fathers, as to why the 2nd Amendment was necessary. It is difficult to believe that he is not aware of some of their views. Therefore his whole article is an effort at misleading; a clear attempt to deceive!

There is no honor among those who seek to change America; to divorce this generation from the American heritage; to impose restrictions on liberty, which go against the whole warp & woof of the Constitution, intended to protect that liberty.

For a better appreciation of just how far afield the writer is, The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms. Note, especially, George Washington's support for adopting the Swiss system for American youth, and consider just how beneficial he understood that such would be.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I think our left is more fascist/Nazi than the South American, which skews Maoist.

Mao armed the entire Chinese population? Why didn't they shoot him?

Do our Maoists want to arm us???

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“then why not Uzis? Why not RPGs? Why not frag grenades and anti-tank missiles and M24 Sniper Weapons Systems (the M24 is a sniper rifle so powerful that apparently the military doesn’t think calling it a “rifle” does it justice)? Hell, why not your own Black Hawk attack helicopter? I’m sure Sikorsky Aircraft, the company that makes them, would sell you one if you could afford it.”

Yes, there should be no restrictions on which weapons I choose to have. I wish that I could afford a nuke but even if I could afford a nuke the government will not let me have one.

[Ohioan]

This Jon Green kid is misinformed.

I think you are being naively generous. The biographic note at the end indicates that he was an active supporter of Obama. That could, of course, mean misinformed: but given the complete ignoring of the actual history involved, coupled with that active support for one pledged to "change" America, I would not give him that pass.

[Ohioan]

You may be focused on the wrong variable. In Latin America, the Armies tend to intervene when the politicians move so far to the Left as to endanger the stability of the State. Obama has been removing Officers from our Military, who might sense a similar duty.