Posted on 03/27/2015 8:57:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
And with a different demographic and a bunch of RINO support they’d just keep doing it anyway.
But it would be nice and legal!
Today, it is legal either way. That’s the part you aren’t getting.
With this bill in place as law, they’d have to go on the record instead of allowing the ATF to do it for them.
There’s 5 million rounds of 9mm ammo somewhere in DC that was ordered by the IRS, and they weren’t wadcutters either.
They aren’t buying that stuff to protect the southern border - loaning it out to our poorly funded brethren at Border Patrol.
Nobody authorizes it - it’s in the budget, so they buy it.
You talk about demographics like it means something. Boehner and McConnell can read the polls. Obolacare, illegals, sealing up the border, even gun control - they are all why they won. The people spoke.
They don’t need the demographics anymore. With this bill, you can challenge any of these regs and it has to be set aside unless Congress positively affirms it, which is SO MUCH HARDER than passively affirming it, which is what is being done as I write this.
Sunlight kills disease. With this bill you can’t say one thing to win and then vote the other way.
It is positive affirmation of your position on 2A beats saying one thing about 2A to win NRA endorsement and then doing something else to help the ATF along.
It couldn't hurt, but the fact is we're supposed to have a ban on federal gun control even with 100% support:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
” Today, it is legal either way.”
And that would be where you are wrong.
Look up what “shall not be infringed” means.
See, that’s the point. They’d shoot back, “Where is your well regulated militia? When you produce your militia, we’ll stop infringing.”
From their point of view, from the point of view of the current demographic, you need that militia.
The response to that is: “Okay, make firearm ownership, training, and annual qualification with said firearm mandatory.”
And their response would be, “Naaaaaaw. Let’s just agree that you aren’t in a militia, we can tell you what is what on guns and gun related stuff, pray the NRA is going to go away so ‘our demographic’ can finally confiscate your guns and leave things basically the way it is today. One of our agencies tells you what to do, and you do it.”
Then they’d look around at the ‘demographic’ and ask, “Any of you fellas in a milita? No?”
Then they’d turn to you and say, “See. Give me your guns.”
Really, if it were NOT for the NRA, we’d have had to give up our guns a long, long time ago. Stare decisis, thank God, except up until maybe a decade or two ago, supported the notion that the ‘well regulated militia’ is anyone who wants to own a gun for basically any lawful reason.
This is precisely why Obola has been using the agencies, or he’d be using the courts like he did in shoving Obolacare down our throats.
This is also why this bill is being proposed. It outs people for being anti-gun. You just can’t be anti-gun - even in WA state, and WA state is the bluest of all the blue states. It’s bluer than NY and CA put together.
There are a LOT of D’s that say they are pro-gun that aren’t - ESPECIALLY IN TEXAS.
Like I said, we can quibble about the number, but the way the 2nd is written today, you can assail it and live politically.
The idea here is to affirm the notion that gun rights are essentially endowed by the Creator - that is certainly more true than affirming that a women’s right to kill their own children is endowed by her Creator.
You want to pass a law on guns, affirm it with a vote.
If the US gets to the point where a legislator thinks they can survive politically by voting to take guns from people, then you and I both better have bugged out by then.
So what then would stop them when it comes to this bill?
Absolutely nothing.
I know Miller was dead. Point is, neither the defendant NOR his lawyer was there.
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