Sen. Chris Murphy: Not Enough Votes to Ban ‘Assault Weapons’

"Sen. Chris Murphy: Not Enough Votes to Ban ‘Assault Weapons’"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

How could the nation possibly have survived without the 17th Amendment? /super-sarc

Post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Chris Murphy unsurprisingly doesn't seem to understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime restrictive gun laws.

"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In fact, consider that the Supreme Court had emphasized that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment (2A) was to officially constitutionally recognize the federal government as a possible enemy of the people (my words).

"The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress [emphasis added]. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow citizens of the rights it recognizes, to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the "powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was, perhaps, more properly called internal police," "not surrendered or restrained" by the Constitution of the United States." —United States v. Cruikshank, 1875.

In my opinion, not only have the states never expressly constitutionally given the corrupt feds the specific power to make peacetime, non-militia-related, restrictive gun laws, but the Court's clarification of 2A in Cruikshank means that the amendment protects citizens from having to let the feds know anything about their personal firepower, or qualifications to use that firepower.

Personal firepower is actually state a state power issue imo, now limited by 14th Amendment (14A), if we had a respectable Congress that actually did its duty to enforce 14A personal protections.

In fact, note that Constitution-ignoring FDR is regarded by some as the father of federal gun control.

Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control (Non-FR)

Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?

The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...

All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.

If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.

If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.

With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.

In fact, unconstitutional Social Security, based on FDR era stolen state powers imo, is projected to run out of money by 2033 as a consequence of alleged Democratic and RINO criminal mismanagement of SS funds, unconstitutional, unaccountable federal spending a major concern.

Social Security trust fund on track to run out in 2033: analysis (3.31.23)
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).

So the sooner that 16&17A are repealed, putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, the sooner that the states will find new revenues to establish their own SS programs, depending on what state social spending programs the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.

”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.

Finally, hasn't it been about 100 days since so-called "MAGA Republicans" took control of the House? Have they done anything to brag about so far?

Primarying RINOs in 2022 was just for practice. Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying for 2024 elections.

“...I think it’s just absolutely unconscionable that we allow these ‘weapons of war’ to be in commercial circulation...”

Wonder if he wants to ban bagpipes, trench tools, bugles etc too. What a ringpiece!

"weapon of war"

If you don't believe the commies are coming for ALL weapons, I have a bridge to sell you

“It’s not 1993 anymore. So they don’t have enough Republicans to go along with their claptrap.”

Yeah, no Henry Hyde anymore.

That’s like something my Stepdad said often! And he was an old Southern Democrat at one time! He converted over about the time Pres. Reagan was in office. And he voted for both Pres.s Bush too. He possibly would’ve even voted for Pres. Trump, but died before the primaries in 2015! He even got his S. Democrat sister and her friends, to vote for Pres. Bush 43. Except for some certain conservative Democrats still left in the state, he would not vote/support for any Democrat, ever! He was really disgusted with most of them!