CA: Quill Pens, Guns, Ink and Bullets (Why does the left continue to attack the 2nd Amendment?)

CaliforniaRepublic.org ^ | 6/12/06 | Ray Haynes

[NormsRevenge]

When the Founding Fathers took the initiative to permanently inscribe our natural rights on paper, one can imagine it being done so with a quill pen. The first copies enshrined our liberties in the Constitution as the Bill of Rights to include the freedom of religion, freedom of the press and the right to keep and bear arms and were printed with a manual printing press.

This freedom of speech includes our right to express ourselves with every available medium. At no point have we considered that the freedom of speech is limited to expressing oneself with hand presses and quill pens. We freely debate on the internet, television, telephones and other forms of communication.

So why is it that our Second Amendment is not treated the same as the First? The majority party in California, and their anti-civil rights allies, views our natural right to self defense to be limited to the musket and the flintlock.

Since I have been in office, the majority party has found cause to attack small guns, cheap guns, expensive guns, big guns, guns with too many accessories, guns by brand name, ugly guns, and pretty guns. We have a strange testing requirement to purchase a gun reminiscent of poll taxes and literacy tests that were designed to keep oppressed people from voting. We have limited the number of guns someone can purchase in a month. Can you imagine being told how many times you are allowed to attend church in a month?

As you can imagine, this has little impact on true crime or any of the other bogus arguments used to suppress your rights. The majority party claims to believe in several of your rights, and has seen fit to make themselves the arbiters of which ones you are allowed to exercise, how often, and with as many hoops to jump through as possible.

This session in the Legislature, we have defeated bills that would have required anti-gun rhetoric on material distributed with new firearms, a bill that would have required guns and ammunition to have microscopic serial numbers imprinted in them, as if inspired by a late night of watching TV shows like CSI, and a bill that would have banned dogs from chasing rabbits! These bills are sold as crime fighting tools. After a half century of these types of laws, we are no safer. In truth, the criminal element is safer every time we disarm the law abiding population.

Not able to totally ban firearms, the majority party has found a new vehicle to disarm you, banning ammunition.

AB 2714 (Torrico) passed the Assembly last week, and is now in the Senate. This bill will require that all transactions in ammunition require the consumer to meet with the retailer face to face and present ID. With tens of millions of shooters in America, untold millions of rounds of ammunition are sold directly to the public through catalog and internet sales. Hard to find, bulk items, specialty items, discounted rates and convenience are all to be had for the consumer by purchasing on-line. AB 2714 seeks to regulate interstate commerce, ammunition, gun rights, and the internet in one fell swoop by a rabid and illogical anti-gun owner agenda.

To get the bill out of the lower house, the author promised to amend it later. He promised that he wouldn’t seek to ban purchasing ammo anymore. He would instead amend the bill to require you to present identification to the UPS delivery truck that is bringing you your product. I suppose if law enforcement won’t support your unnecessary legislation, you can just deputize the entire UPS and FedEx fleets to do your dirty work. The goal is to make it so uncomfortable to be a gun owner that your kids won’t even bother. The outcome of this bill remains to be seen, but I know that when one right is stolen away the others will follow.

If this oppressive behavior continues, I just may have to send out my weekly opinion pieces on parchment, handwritten with a quill pen.

[NormsRevenge]

Mr. Haynes is an Assembly member representing Riverside and Temecula. He serves on the Appropriations and Budget Committees.

[mwyounce]

Funny how the Dems believe that the Bill of Rights is 9 amendments given to the people and one that limits the rights of the people.

[HHKrepublican_2]

Because we'll use it against them when they try to set up a socialst dictatorship thats why.

[HHKrepublican_2]

Because we'll use it against them when they try to set up a socialst dictatorship thats why.

[garyhope]

"Why does the left continue to attack the 2nd Amendment?"

Because they're afraid of freedom. Because they're smug, arrogant, condescending elitist snobs and crypto fascists.

You know, the usual stuff.

They want to control you and tell you how to live because they think they're better than you.

I could go on. And on and on. Freepers know.

[paul51]

Because we'll use it against them when they try to set up a socialst dictatorship thats why

A neutered society is easier to tax and control

[MaDeuce]

"Why does the Left continue to attack the 2nd Amendment"?

One only has to look to the past to see the reason. Every dictator, tyrant, and despot's first action is to disarm the people he wishes to enslave. This is primaraly for two reasons:

(1) The obvious one, is to remove the potential of any future opposition by the people. With the threat of revolt removed, the people become docile.

(2) When the people are disarmed, they will become helpless. Incapable of defending themselves and thus, running to the gov't, dictator, tyrant, etc... for protection ... giving up what ever "rights" or "freedoms" they might have had previously.

Tyrants like those in the Democrat party, especially in Commifornia, know this but will never admit to it. And with the vast majority of the public being ignorant of history and having IQ's just above that of their house pets, they will never know what freedom and liberty really are. The further and further away the past slips into history where freedoms were understood and enjoyed, the people of tomorrow will only know oppression and think it is normal.

Tyrants like those who wish to destroy the 2nd Amendment should deserve no less than what Benito Mussolini received at the end of WWII.

[SandRat]

Why does the left continue to attack the 2nd Amendment? Because an unarmed populace are Subjects of the State and an armed populace are Citizens of a Nation. The left fears that most after freely practiced religion, especially Christianity.

[Postman]

Soooooo????. Whoever authored AB 2714 might be a good start.

[El Gato]

AB 2714 seeks to regulate interstate commerce,

Then there is no question that in violation of the US Constitution., never mind the BS that 2nd doesn't apply to states.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws; and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
Art. 1 Section 10. Constitution for the United States.

[El Gato]

Funny how the Dems believe that the Bill of Rights is 9 amendments given to the people and one that limits the rights of the people.

The Bill of Rights doesn't give the people anything. It protects pre-existing rights of the people. It's a crucial difference. The Constitution grants power to government, and forbids other powers to it. Furthermore the Bill of Rights prohibits exercise of those powers granted in such as way as to violate the rights of the people.

[MaDeuce]

Soooooo????. Whoever authored AB 2714 might be a good start.

Ummmmmmm .... could be .... yes.

[mwyounce]

That's why I said that's what "the Dems believe." They believe that the first amendment gives them the right of free speech, while the second amendment forbids common citizens from having guns -- only state run militias get them.

Sorry I wasn't clearer.... I was trying to be pithy. :-)

[Postman]

Agreement is good.

[OldArmy52]

No, Liberals/Dems say that the 2nd Amend applies only to State govts, not to people.

And they are right.

The founding fathers never intended the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights to apply to actual people.

The Bill of Rights thus only gives rights to State govts.

(oops, time for my anti-psychotic meds)

[Mountain_Dweller]

Yes, well, funny? maybe not so much. If you look carefully, you will find that the other 9 have not faired so well, either (especially #10 ;-). If you listen to the speaches, it sounds like #1 is sacred, but if you go actions, no dice. Feel free to say what you want...as long as you don't use the wrong words. Don't even talk about religion...#4 and #5 have taken an awful beating...you get my point.

The sadest part is how many people are so completely disarmed, mentally, that they just take whatever is handed them as a gift. Can't take shampoo or bottled water on an airliner anymore. Went to pay a parking ticket...couldn't get to the clerk's office without being serached and don't cary a pocket knife or they won't let you in. Gee...who exactly are "we" afraid of again?

Nice to see some people still think!
-B