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School Teaching: Americans Don't Have Right To Bear Arms
Fox News ^ | April 9, 2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 04/10/2013 8:48:56 AM PDT by opentalk

The father of a Connecticut child is furious after discovering that his son’s school is teaching students that Americans don’t have a Second Amendment right to bear arms.

“I am appalled,” said Steven Boibeaux, of Bristol. “It sounds to me like they are trying to indoctrinate our kids.”

Boibeaux’s son is an eighth grader at Northeast Middle School. On Monday his social studies teacher gave students a worksheet titled, ‘The Second Amendment Today.’

“The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms,” the worksheet states. “The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional.

The worksheet, published by Instructional Fair, goes on to say that the Second Amendment is not incorporated against the states.

“This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states,” the worksheet reads. “So a person has no right to complain about a Second Amendment violation by state laws.”

According to the document, the Second Amendment “only provides the right of a state to keep an armed National Guard.”

Boibeaux said he discovered the worksheet as he was going over his son’s homework assignments.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 8thgrade; banglist; bristolpublic; childrenofthestate; collectivechildren; commoncore; constututionlies; ct; ellensolek; globalism; guncontrol; indoctrination; instructionalfair; leftismoncampus; northeastmiddle; obama; secondamendment
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To: opentalk

***“This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states,” the worksheet reads. “So a person has no right to complain about a Second Amendment violation by state laws.”***

This teacher needs to read the commentaries on the Constitution before the Civil War.

Example...

Dred Scott vs Sanford.
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html

“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”

And AFTER the Civil War...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank

“Although significant portions of Cruikshank have been overturned by later decisions, it is still relied upon with some authority in other portions. Cruikshank and Presser v. Illinois, which reaffirmed it in 1886, are the only significant Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment until the murky United States v. Miller in 1939, but both preceded the court’s general acceptance of the incorporation doctrine and have been questioned for that reason. However, the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 clearly suggested that Cruikshank and the chain of cases flowing from it would no longer be considered good law as a result of the radically changed view of the Fourteenth Amendment when that issue eventually comes before the courts:”

And this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presser_v._Illinois

In Presser, the Court reaffirmed the Cruikshank decision that the Second Amendment acts as a limitation upon only the federal government and not the states.

Cruikshank and Presser are consistently used by the lower courts to deny any recognition of individual rights claims and provides justification to state and local municipalities to pass laws that regulate guns.


21 posted on 04/10/2013 9:20:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed. The director and actors wept.)
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To: Westbrook

I’m sure you’re getting my point.

If the items covered under the 2nd amendment have to have government permission to be “transferred”,

what of the items under the 1st amendment?

You can’t say that those 1st amendment items haven’t caused “harm” in the past.


22 posted on 04/10/2013 9:22:51 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: opentalk; Psalm 73; illiac; Puppage; MrB; ExCTCitizen; Texas Fossil; All
From their website:
Instructional Fair books and educational products provide innovative skill building exercises designed to help educators engage and inspire students from kindergarten to 8th grade.

Because G_d forbid we should actually teach students. Oh, no. We have to educate and inspire (and brainwash) them…

Working in collaboration with educators, Instructional Fair reaches beyond the scope of textbooks …
They certainly do.
23 posted on 04/10/2013 9:26:12 AM PDT by ShorelineMike (Constituo, ergo sum.)
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To: opentalk
 photo TEACH_zpsdcf35541.jpg Fu#k math, science, And English....
24 posted on 04/10/2013 9:26:28 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: ShorelineMike

School districts in the country are just liberal schills....


25 posted on 04/10/2013 9:29:11 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: opentalk

Maybe he should wait a year or two before raising too much of a clamor to the schools. By that time the democrats may have destroyed the 2nd. Amendment.

They are trying really hard.


26 posted on 04/10/2013 9:37:18 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Signalman

Public schools are government controlled institutions.

Is anyone surprised by this?


27 posted on 04/10/2013 9:42:58 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MrB
Now, the liberals are saying the Constitution is “living”.

Now? They've been spouting that lie for forty years.

28 posted on 04/10/2013 9:54:36 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: opentalk
“It is no longer an assignment in that particular school,” she said, noting that it was an “administration decision in the best interest of the district.”

So does this mean that this work sheet is still to be an assignment at another school in this district?

29 posted on 04/10/2013 9:57:36 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: ExCTCitizen
A public School is the SOCIALIST INDOCTRINATION CENTER, where your CHILD gets BRAINWASHED, by LIBERALS. HOMESCHOOL your child, because the future is dark without our freedoms!!

The family Windflier has been doing just that for 12 years now.

One semester in kindergarten at the local gov't indoctrination center was all we could take for our eldest. We yanked him out and never looked back. Our three youngest have never stepped foot on a public 'school' campus.

30 posted on 04/10/2013 9:57:52 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Signalman

Yup. Our rookie graphics designer guy is a genius. Didn’t go to formal school. When asked by his co-workers how he was able to make our posters and ads look glossy, he just said “University of Youtube”. Told us later his teachers were lazy idiots and it was faster for him to learn by himself.


31 posted on 04/10/2013 9:58:57 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: opentalk
… Boibeaux said he’s demanding meetings with the principal as well as the board of education.

And Bristol will be having their town election in November, so I think the BOE will be changed -- if not the town council)

32 posted on 04/10/2013 9:59:55 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen
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To: Pontiac
Seems that is what she implies...maybe an appeasement in hopes the father [and Fox news] quietly going away before other parents are informed.
33 posted on 04/10/2013 10:04:25 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: DBrow
This goes along with the shock conditioning kids get whenever the word “gun” is mentioned, alluded to, or hinted at in a pop tart. After a dozen years of this, how do you suppose that person will vote?

Me? For whoever the silly feminists and castrated males didn't like. That was the effect on me.

34 posted on 04/10/2013 10:04:56 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: MrB

How can a document, out-dated because it was penned by a bunch of dead, white guys ... live ?


35 posted on 04/10/2013 10:05:23 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: SamuraiScot

I think that today’s conditioning goes beyond anything they have tried before.

One trick is to show a shocking video- the whipping-and-suicide scene from Amistad, Holocaust scenes, that sort of thing, and follow it up with a propaganda lesson on guns or global warming. And of note is the hysteria shown about guns, weapons, and “violence” which now includes words.


36 posted on 04/10/2013 10:27:58 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Windflier
One semester in kindergarten at the local gov't indoctrination center was all we could take for our eldest. We yanked him out and never looked back. Our three youngest have never stepped foot on a public 'school' campus.

We never sent ours to any school, except the kitchen table...right now they are swimming in the pool with 6 other homeschooled kids.

They have more sense then most ADULTS

37 posted on 04/10/2013 10:32:37 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen
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38 posted on 04/10/2013 10:40:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: opentalk
“I am appalled,” said Steven Boibeaux, of Bristol. “It sounds to me like they are trying to indoctrinate our kids.”

Well, DUH!!!

Methinks Steven is a slow learner.

39 posted on 04/10/2013 10:41:31 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: opentalk; Joe Brower

40 posted on 04/10/2013 10:42:16 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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