Under the rules, any state senator or delegate could strap on a sidearm and stroll in, according to Capitol Police Maj. Mike Jones. They have the same rights as law-enforcement officers to openly carry a gun in the Capitol...
Regular citizens, though, must have a concealed-weapon permit to bring in a gun, either concealed or openly.
"Regular citizens"?
As opposed to "super citizens"?
What did Mr. Mason say?
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788
What does the "supreme law of the land" say?
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States...No State shall...grant any Title of Nobility....[and] No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States...nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.Of course, if you rely on that and act accordingly, don't be surprised if Maj. Mike Jones and the Capitol Police...ummm...how do I put this delicately?...kill you...
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It is such a simple concept. The highest office in the land is that of citizen. Every other official of government is a servant.
That is so simple that we didn't pay attention and let our servants pass legislation that makes them our masters. Perhaps in the main, we deserve it.\
However, in my individual case, I do not. I will not accept less than my due and will resist,forcible if necessary, any attempt to make it so.
The most lamentable thing about this is not that we are becoming livestock to the elite, or that we have allowed an elite to emerge, or even that we forgot the lessons of our forebears, but rather, that we should have the same fire to attain and maintain our liberty and the same reverence for the rights of individuals as a natural manifestation of our humanity even if we had no previous examples to follow, and we do not. That is the real disgrace. That we have willingly become herd animals following the bell sheep to slaugter. And we have done so of our own volition.
forcible should have read forcibly in the above. Proofreading is my friend, proofreading is my friend, proofrea..........
Think our fine-feathered
'legislators' have obviously misconstrued the INTENT of our Founders;
Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF WHICH THEY WOULD BE IN ACTUAL POSSESSION, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it.
But WERE THE PEOPLE TO POSSESS THE ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it.
James Madison, Fed. #46
May they CHOKE on it!
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