Posted on 09/22/2015 10:04:28 AM PDT by raptor22
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is not a political amateur and has faced questions from many prominent talking heads in the media. Yet in the 2016 he has made multiple gaffes indicating he still might not be ready for prime time, the latest being a question of whether gun ownership is a right guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.
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Jeb Bush: No. Not necessarily…There’s a 10th amendment to our country, the Bill of Rights has a 10th amendment that says powers are given to the states to create policy, and the federal government is not the end all and be all. That’s an important value for this country, and it’s an important federalist system that works quite well.
What an embarrassment. What do some republican voters see in this guy? I don't understand why other than name recognition based on the family he belongs to to.
“he has made multiple gaffes indicating he still might not be ready for prime time”..........
No way should he even be in the race if he is pro gun control. Millions of gun owners would agree with me.
¡Yeb! is a Democrat in an R jersey
If he is nominated, the GOP will have committed suicide
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PERIOD
If he is nominated, the GOP will have committed suicide *
If he is nominated I believe that we all have an obligation to vote third party.
Don't worry about splitting the vote. Hilary is lucky if she'll get 20%...
Jeb Bush: No. Not necessarily…There’s a 10th amendment to our country, the Bill of Rights has a 10th amendment that says powers are given to the states to create policy, and the federal government is not the end all and be all. That’s an important value for this country, and it’s an important federalist system that works quite well.
Yeb/Mushmouth/George III mangles words and thoughts about as well as his older brother.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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.
I don’t need this blithering idiot explaining for me what G-d and the framers meant. Go get your shinebox, Yeb.
It is absolutely frightening that people who aspire to the highest office in the land have such an abysmal understanding of the country's foundational structure.
Almost no one on the right or left can accept the 2nd Amendment in its plain wording. They (the left) deny it permits private access to arms at all or they (the right) quibble about what is included under the term “arms” or they say there can only be common sense limits or that certainly that right doesn’t extend to bad people of various definitions. No. it is absolute or is possibly subject only to the involuntary servitude provision in the Constitution. A tank may not be an “arm” but the cannon mounted in its turret most surely is.
You are correct. Note that in Article I, Section 8 (the enumerated powers of Congress) is the power to grant "Letters of Marque and Reprisal." Essentially, Congress can grant anyone the power to be a privateer (i.e. a pirate or a raider) against enemy shipping. This was actually done during the War of 1812. Raiding enemy ships required that you have cannon - MANY cannon - that you owned personally. The Founders were not stupid men, they understood this VERY well. Thus, logic and the language of the Constitution indicated that cannon are protected arms.
I would also make the argument that ALL arms capable of being carried/used by a single person or even a 2- or 3-man team are protected under the 2nd. Our side employed rifles in the Revolutionary War, and at the time rifles were fairly high-tech, certainly higher tech than the Brown Bess muskets of the British. So we have the right to keep and bear ANY firearm now, since that right obviously existed back then.
Bush is a complete incompetent. Bar needs to send the short bus to pick him up and take him home. For good.
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I really don’t see any point in supporting Comrade Jeb!
I will be eagerly awaiting the announcement that he’s dropping out of the race.
Pending clarification, and I’m sure he’ll be asked this question again, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was addressing things like mental health issues. I do think things like that should be handled by the states rather than the federal government. Including concealed carry reciprocity. I’d prefer the least federal interference with my rights. In a more perfect nation, I’d expect the feds to be protecting my rights.
Our side carried cannons too, and you can still own one. Blackpowder at least. I think your assessment that individual and crew fired weapons are covered is correct. I can’t look for it now, but I believe the cannon issue was resolved in court, Texas I think, not long after they became a state. Privateers also needed cannon.
JEB manages to be on the wrong side of just about every issue. He could give Hillary a good run in the rat party.
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