Though it’s doubtful anyone will hear much about it, neither lawmakers, judges, or even a president has the constitutional authority to infringe upon the inalienable right of the American people to keep and bear arms.
One hundred thirty eight years ago, the Supreme Court wrote that the right to keep and bear arms “…is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.”
The case was United States v. Cruikshank; and the Court made it clear that the right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right, God-given and independent of any mandatory approbation by men or their laws for its force and legitimacy.
The Founders were so certain as to the absolute nature of these inalienable rights in the Bill of Rights that Alexander Hamilton suggested in Federalist No. 84 that it was unnecessary even to make them a part of the written Constitution. “For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do,” he wrote, clear in his assertion that men have no authority to meddle with rights deriving from God and nature.
All these years later, the Court has not changed its attitude about the inalienable rights of the American people. In the majority opinion of D.C. v Heller, the Court states that the 2nd Amendment “codifies” the pre-existing right to keep and bear arms; it does not “give” us that right. “[I]t has always been widely understood that the Second Amendment, like the First and Fourth Amendments, codified a pre-existing right. The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it “shall not be infringed.”
Yet for decades, it has been the aim of gun-banning lawmakers and left-wing jurists to transform the 2nd Amendment into a nonsensical hodgepodge. Children are killed by a psychopath, and the left is pleased to claim that “assault weapons” must be responsible and should therefore be banned. “High capacity” magazines are deemed unnecessary for hunting, and this somehow means they must be outlawed. Individuals thought to be “too dedicated” to the Constitution are accused of being potential domestic terrorists; and for some unknown reason, Libertarians and veterans are not to be trusted as gun owners. It’s an extraordinary mix of non sequiturs designed to add confusion to the 27 word 2nd Amendment.
Well, the Founders of this nation saw nothing complicated about the right of the American people to keep and bear arms; for theirs was a lesson of cruel experience learned from the British enemy during the Revolution. The British knew that disarming the colonies would mean an end to any war, and they focused all of their efforts on the capture of weapons, powder and ball. Surely this is a concept simple enough even for Dianne Feinstein—disarm an enemy, and they will become the easy prey of a would-be tyrant.
For the Founders, the right to keep and bear arms became nothing more complicated than “…the right of armed self-defense against tyranny.” Indeed, that was the purpose of the right as later expressed in the 2nd Amendment. And in spite of the best efforts of modern hoplophobes and would-be tyrants to confuse the issue, it has not changed to this day.
It’s past time for American patriots to tell the left that issues concerning the right to keep and bear arms were decided long ago and in our favor. We will tolerate no further aggression against our inalienable right to defend our families, our lives, and our property from the treachery of thieves, liars, and tyrants who populate the Democrat Party.
To paraphrase Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars: “If you don’t try to steal our guns, we won’t kill you.” What could be fairer than that?!
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This 1902 law forbids any gun control laws, and it cannot be repealed. The gun control people did not do their homework, or thinks we don’t do ours.
Obama will act in willful violation of the Constitution, knowing that Congress won’t act, and in defiance of any judicial decision.
A general strike of the People is necessary to force Congress to impeach Obama or otherwise remove him.
The Tea Party might take the lead, calling upon other civic and patriotic organizations to join with them.
A strike fund should be started. The fat cats who frittered away tens of millions of dollars in trying to oppose Obama at the polls, without first obtaining evidence of his true racial heritage and citizenship, and his real allegiance (the Comintern) should contribute heavily to this fund. It can be used for the relief of those put in need by supporting the strike, and paying for those who will picket the appropriate homes, offices and businesses.
Governors and state legislatures should support the People’s general strike for impeachment by declaring state holidays to coincide with the duration of the strike – say a week for openers, then indefinitely if that doesn’t start impeachment hearings with at least subpoenae of Obama’s DNA and original birth certificate. These will prove that Obama is not half Negro, which will strengthen the strike and dispell political inhibitions against further investigation.
Nobody in Washington, DC, gives a hoot about existing law or the Constitution. They want a government by dictatorship and they are ALL contributing to that goal. Republicans, Democrats, Indies, they are ALL in on the fix.
The only ones who wont be affected by this horror show are the ones allowing it to proceed.
Scum, vermin. Night crawling snakes and weasels ALL.
Anyone heard from Darrel Issa lately? He served his purpose in putting up a loud smokescreen and giving We the People a sense of hope. The Regime has ignored him and so has his own Party. It was all a hoax anyway.
If George Washington himself miraculously came back to life and spoke before Congress telling them what criminals they really are he would be locked away in a FEMA Camp forever as a subversive.
OUR ONLY HOPE is that the sold out cops and cowardly military stand up and LOUDLY announce they will not support the Obama Putsch.
But don’t hold your breath waiting. They’ve allowed the Regime to trash the Law of the Land without so much as a SQUEAK of protest. Sorry, McCrystal DID squeak. Got fired for it. Ran off with his tail between his legs. The rest shut up and stayed that way.
We have a few County Sheriffs who have come forward but that’s it.
Mr. Book, we are witnessing evil people dressed up as politicians attacking every facet of the Constitution. Perhaps we should look at banning “assault politicians”. Just sayin.
Ern, what you said is good. I couldn’t have said it better. These politicians are assaulting our God-given freedoms/liberties every day. They only want to disarm law-abiding citizens because they are the real criminals. Criminals don’t want their victims armed.
Considering the 2nd amendment that protects our right to bear arms, the 4th amendment that protects our right against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the 10th amendment that reserves the powers not delegated to the United States and prohibited to the states (the 14th) to go to the people, the government should just back off of this topic.
Debra…
Let your voice be heard! We desperately need you in this fight against this rogue gov. Plz come join our national rally!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/events/352736228167805/
Guns shouldn’t be the topic, not in any infringing way, shape, or form. We need all the firepower we can get our hands on to fight the “Libtardo-Rexus”. The suggestion we do ‘mental health screening’ is a better topic if we screen the psychs!
The question should be: do we outlaw psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, aka “The Three Amigos,” and their psychotropics? Or do we let them continue their killing spree? In the last four decades alone, the TTA’s have killed twice as many people in asylums than all our wars combined back to 1776. How about we trade them for the victimless-crime population in our prisons. Without TTA’s in our education, courts, military, VA hospitals, insurance, social services, we’d do better. Without them there’d be no school shootings…Semper Fi
The left claim that the 2nd was written at a time when they had (apparently) weapons that were more benign in killing power. That is what they had…period. If they were here today…they would probably include the necessity of having hand grenades and rocket launchers to assure protection. You cant protect against a bat with your fists. You can’t protect with a knife against a gun. And you can’t protect against military weaponry with a pee shooter! The 2nd stands today as being even more important than ever.
I am posting everyplace I am allowed to. I do not think it will do any good, but I have to try. I hope you do the same.
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Bobman101,
Orly Taitz posted on the website from this link that the information is a hoax. If you haven’t looked at it, please do so and stop posting this.
Thanks.
Thanks Ike.I tried to find Orly’s post, but could not find. I take your word for and will stop posting it
Obama does have the authority to issue bans on the production of certain weapons, ammo, etc, and where they may or may not be posessed in Federal buildings and property. BUT HE has no Constitutional authority to pass any law, as the “law of the land”. UNLESS CONgress wants that law passed (to keep from losing votes) and they are willing to cede their Constitutional authority to a dictator.
All federal laws must be brought to the floor in a Bill, voted on, passed, and then signed by President before they become legal.
CONgress must ratify a Bill/vote to approve an amendment the Constitution proposed by Congress. After ratification no further approval (e.g., Presidential signature) is required for the amendment to take effect.
“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
THE very FIRST thing our Founding Fathers did was tell us who could make laws to control the people. Why? King George! They didn’t want what he was doing to continue in their newly formed Nation.
THAT sentence is direct and to the point, no interpretation by legal weasels in DC is needed.
Since they specified that “ALL” legislative (law making) authority is given to the CONgress, that leaves NONE for the President and the SC.
Section 1 is a vesting clause, granting all the federal government’s legislative authority to Congress. Similar vesting clauses are found in Articles II and III, which grant “the executive power” to the President and “the judicial power” to the federal judiciary. In legal garb, the working definition of “herein” connotes specificity and exclusivity.
The Vesting Clauses thus establishes the principle of separation of powers by specifically giving to each branch of the federal government only those powers it can exercise and no others.
This means that NO BRANCH MAY EXERCISE POWERS THAT PROPERLY BELONG TO ANOTHER (e.g., since the legislative power is only vested in Congress, the executive and judiciary may not enact laws). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_8:_Powers_of_Congress
He has absolutely NO authority to issue anything to anyone. He is a fraud and criminal and needs to be arrested and anyone obeying anything that fool communost muslin should be treated as a traitor to our country.
Typical Lib/Liar. PROVE that the average gun owner would “happily” shoot everyone around them. You are a flaming FOOL and a 5 star horses azz for saying such a thing. While demented souls who are shown to be armed by the LEFT wander the country blazing away at “everyone” YOU IDIOTS blame the law-abiding for causing ALL gun deaths.
You are 90 times more likely to be killed by medical malpractice than by guns. Do FOOLS like you call for the banning of X-ray machines? Stethoscopes? Tongue depressors?
Drunk drivers kill people every day in this country. Why aren’t you FOOLS parading through the streets demanding that cars be banned?
GUN CONTROL NEVER WORKS.
There are thousands of laws against street drugs like marijuana, crack, cocaine and a host of others yet people are dying every day from them in one way or another. Fat lot of good banning the trade in dope does, eh?
There myriad laws against burglary, robbery, home invasion, mugging, assault and a hundred other things. Passing laws didn’t do anything to curb that now did it?
Half the states in the Union allow citizens to carry guns. The other half have gun control laws. 80% of all gun crimes happen in states that RESTRICT GUN RIGHTS.
Chicago is a gang banger’s paradise. People are murdered every day in Chicago with guns. Guns that are TOTALLY BANNED in Chicago. New York is the same. Bloomberg and Emanuel are HARD CORE gun ban freaks yet they preside over cities where criminals gun people down every day and do NOTHING to stop the carnage except blame law abiding gun owners for the barbarism.
What’s the connection? For the millionth time: CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY GUN CONTROL LAWS and you’re a complete FOOL for arguing that they do. Your arguments against law abiding citizens “bearing arms” are trite, stale, worn out, over used and nauseatingly boring and repetitious. Same old siren song of gun control being the solution to gun related crime.
WAKE UP, FOOL! The government wants PEOPLE CONTROL not GUN CONTROL and the banning of all firearms is their path to that objective. You’d know that if you ever pulled your head out of the Liberal Dogma chute long enough to study history both home and abroad.
Now, I have NEVER committed a crime with a gun yet YOU FOOLS blame ME for gun violence. Perhaps it’s time for law abiding citizens to start suing the hejj out of FOOLS like you who publicly accuse them of mass murder. That might shut you idiots up for a while.
If you believe in gun control please expalint to me how gun control can or will stop mass murder and bring the crime rate down.
FYI. I am sure this aill also be ignored.
http://www.webenews.com/dick_act_of_1902.htm
My post above was in response to a post by “Truthiness” that was sent to my In-Box by Western Center. That post seems to have disappeared for some reason.
“Truthiness” said:
“You folks are the furthest thing from a well regulated militia. You’re more like a bunch of paranoid lunatics who would happily shoot everyone if you could get away with it…” That was all I had in the notification.
If you believe in gun control please explain to me how gun control can or will stop mass murder and bring the crime rate down.
FYI. I am sure this will also be ignored.
http://www.webenews.com/dick_act_of_1902.htm
I was given my first gun, a single shot .22 caliber remington rifle on my 14th birthday and I have owned guns all my life and I am now a senior citizen.
I have always felt strongly about the 2nd Amendment and believe if the population was not armed we would not be as free as we are now…….and could you imagine trusting Obama if we had no guns?