Kansas Secretary of State to Eric Holder: Stay Out of Kansas – You Don’t Understand the Constitution

thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 5-7-2013 | Jim Hoft

[servo1969]

Kansas signed the Second Amendment Protection Act (SB 102) into law last month.
The bill protects gun owners from from new federal gun control laws and would actually make it illegal to enforce those laws within the state of Kansas.

Eric Holder threatened Kansas last week calling the new state law unconstitutional.

In response Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, fired back.
The general gist of the message was, “You’re wrong. You don’t understand the Constitution. Bring it on.”

Via Guns Save Lives:



Kobach insisted the State of Kansas was determined to restore the Constitution to protect the right of its citizens to keep and bear arms.
So far, Holder has not responded.

[Marcella]

Texas: The Texas House has just passed 12 gun laws (I think it is 12) that guarantee us the right to bear arms and keeps the federal government out of our business. Any federal officer who tries to take a citizen’s gun, will be arrested and put in jail and fined.

[grumpygresh]

“Worse - Wickard v Filburn.

Any gun purchased in Kansas, made in Kansas, has an effect on interstate commerce because it would have been bought from an out of state manufacturer if it wasn’t bought in Ks”

Guess what, it’s not about supreme court precedent anymore, it’s about raw political power. You are right; the SCOTUS Wickard v Fiburn decision would seem to prohibit this law, but most constitutionalists would agree that Wickard v Fiburn was a flawed ruling not supported by the original intent of the commerce clause.

It’s about time that the states stand up for the constitution even if it means opposing SCOTUS decisions and the unconstitutional actions of the executive branch.

[MrB]

Kobach is a smart feller, and Holder is a fart smeller...

Anyway, Kobach helped write the law specifically to thwart precedent and it is intended to be challenged in court, and succeed.

[ballplayer]

AMEN BROTHER!!

[GBA]

Outstanding!

Could it be that testosterone and commonsense are back in style, starting with Wisconsin and now Kansas?

With regard to the obama/holder management and on down the food chain to all things bubbling up from the muck of this obamanation we now find ourselves in, I've been wondering when Proverbs 16:18 would catch up to them.

We need that lesson and so do they. The world will be a better place as a result.

[Donnafrflorida]

i’ll ride shotgun. LOL.

[rockrr]

Nice dig on “Fast & Furious”. Way to go Mr. Kobach!

[demshateGod]

With Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, etc. we have plenty of fire power.

[Mr. K]

So, a Kansas law to uphold the Constitution is... unconstitutional???

Nice one Holder, you dumbass.

[caww]

We can be assured they will come in from another angle altogether...including using agencies to make any fire-arms manufacture “suffer” thru EPA or any other crap they use to close them down.

[Defiant]

Yes, with all those gun manufacturers moving to Texas, it would make a law like this very helpful to people in Texas for creation of a formidable arsenal without Feral oversight.

[Resolute Conservative]

Mensch.

If only more states would pony up the coward from Chicago would squeal.

[I want the USA back]

Good. Keep the fascist communists in their place.

[SeaHawkFan]

A simple “FU” would have been sufficient.

[ZX12R]

Could it be that testosterone and commonsense are back in style, starting with Wisconsin and now Kansas?

That's part of it, I hope. But its also that Holder has done so many things that prove he is merely an ideologically driven lacky, and few take him seriously anymore. He is an embarrassment of an appointment.

[Defiant]

Wickard v. Filburn perverted the Commerce Clause in a way that would allow a court to declare this law invalid. At some point a state has to say to the feds that we don’t care what you say, we know what the Constitution says. Neither the Supreme Court, Congress or President can tell us that black is white, night is day, and expect us to go along with it because they also tell us they are the final arbiters. We can read. We can let them make legitimate interpretations along the margins, but they cannot rewrite the document, especially when they rewrite it to take away our rights, as opposed to what they have done in the past, which was to create bogus, non-existent rights, like abortion.

[Resolute Conservative]

Add Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and the other plains states and the lines will have been drawn. Guess where 90% of our fossil fuels come from?

[ZX12R]

i’ll ride shotgun. LOL.

You're on! I'll ping you when it's departure time.

[Smokin' Joe]

Holder ain’t in Oz any more...

[topher]

Need to build Ammo Factories in Kansas.

Makes me proud of the fact I was born in Kansas -- a distance from Dodge City but close enough that the town I was born in was mentioned in the TV series Gunsmoke on several episodes...