About That Vote...

Westchester gun-licensing plan up for vote today...

Basically, they're deciding on which set of bureaucrats gets delegated with the charter to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

I wasn't aware that I gave another human being authority to vote on my unalienable rights. Were you?

What if they all got together and voted that you couldn't own a non-approved book, or go to the church of your choice? What if they voted they could board their enforcers at your house any time they so decreed? What if they voted they could arbitrarily enter your house and search it and you any time they wanted, and use what they found against you in criminal proceedings? What if they voted they could force you to testify against yourself? What if they voted they could just take your property without compensation, or hold you without charges, or convict you without due process, or deprive you of the right to trial by jury? What if they voted they could punish you with torture or disfigurement? What if they voted to deny you a host of other rights, and to assume powers never intended for or delegated to them?

Why should a vote that abrogates the Second Amendment be considered any less of a tyrannical outrage? But that's assuming all the other Rights have been left untouched. How many have they already" voted" on? How many rights have been trampled, how many powers usurped?

And how many of our relatives, friends and neighbors are even aware of what is being stolen from themselves and their children, let alone give a damn? Any bets on the results if gun licensing was decided by popular vote?