Posted on 04/25/2014 10:02:16 PM PDT by i88schwartz
CHARLES MURRAY: If by some miracle that change were made in that Amendment, it would be the biggest unintended consequence in the history of liberalism. You know what's going to happen? Every red state and a whole bunch of blue states, too. The state legislatures will create militias. And guess what? There are going to be a whole lot of people who want to be in those in those militias. There are going to be --
JOHN AVLON: We already have those, it's called the National Guard.
BILL MAHER: Yeah, exactly. Thank you, John.
MURRAY: No. If you change the Amendment, it's not limited to the National Guard. They can form other kind of militias.
AVLON: I think --
MURRAY: Just let me finish the thought. You're going to end up with large militias which are going to change the relationship -- at least psychologically -- of the states and the federal government.
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REMOVE words. That’s what needs to happen.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Period.
They’ll never get a Constitutional Amendment passed to do that, so I’m not sure what he’s talking about.
Every non-Communist American state should have that wording in their own constitution!
“We already have those, it’s called the National Guard. “
In Texas we also have a State Guard (ie Citizen Militia). One of the Lt. Governor candidates has publicly stated he wanted to enlarge that. The State Guard cannot be nationalized unless the state wants it to be.
I have NO interest in serving in the National Guard or Military, but I would defend Texas in the State Guard if needed. I am 66.
The would be tyrants had best be careful for what they wish. This is and will still be Texas.
Everyone knows, you don’t mess with Texas. (We still have Texas Rangers)
This was a Bill Maher circle jerk. Maher and his guests are always high, stupid or both.
And they were just scaring one another with stories of huge militias made up of the guys like us who have actually worked for a living and consider them to be pimples on America’s rear end.
So I guess that’s why they were reassuring one another by saying things like, “Well, we already have a National Guard.” As if. I guess they have reason to be scared.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Period. No! leave it alone. A well ordered militia is neccessary for a free state. In Colonial times a militia was a citizen army, not a professional army like today's national guard at the disposal of the government. The well ordered means it has organization and control and not a mob.
The right of the peop[le to keep and bear arms. This is neccesary for people to form a militia.
The two thoughts in the second amendment go hand in hand for power to be distributed to the people.
Damn right, tweety!
Uh...who today is regulating the militia to which you are referring?
The militia? There is no The Militia. People can form militias and regulate themselves. The forefathers had foreseen Obama with his civilian police force as powerful as the military, brownshirts.
That being the case, there is no need to keep any reference to a militia in the 2nd amendment.
Scared. That is the magic word. How can I ever forget. The first night FOX covered Bundy Tucker Carlson said, “We can’t have people running around pointing guns at the Feds. It’s SCARY.”. I remember thinking, yup, Tucker, it is SUPPOSED TO BE. That is why it is there. The Second Amendment. Folks who consider themselves our masters better think again. We are SUPPOSED to scare them.
Obama’s actions have shown that the words in the Articles of the Constitution have no meaning. Why would he care about the amendments?
Well regulated meant well trained back in the day.
Federalizing the state guards was another progressive move following the Spanish-American War justified by the “need” for a better-trained national army. It just happened to severely weaken the states ability to resist the central government gone bad.
Yeah...like “gun control is a steady hand and a beady eye”
IIRC, members of the official military were not referred to as ‘militia’ but as ‘regulars’. The militia means organized citizenry, not military.
"They’ll never put women in combat."
"They’ll never force the military to take open homosexuals."
"They’ll never kill babies by sucking their brains out as they are being born."
"They’ll never have SWAT teams for the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."
Get the picture?
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