While I find no Constitutional authority for the Feds to conduct background checks at all, I don’t realistically expect my point of view to prevail any time soon. Interestingly, Puckett and Howard share that view. Still, BIDS truly represents a rollback of infringements without giving up any ground through compromise, and would do much toward eliminating the danger of a gun owner registration database."A Request for BIDS," my February 2007 Rights Watch column for GUNS Magazine, is now online.
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Are there any, any government 'officials' at all, that understand what "shall NOT be infringed" mean? It certainly seems to appear that there is not.
ReplyDeleteThere should be NO kind of "control" period. It is a clearly written denial, barring any such action by government, in the FUNDAMENTAL law. This FACT is readily proven, and cannot be dismissed. Any such transgressional action by government is just cause for revolutionary remedy. To Wit;
"...If their ideas should succeed, a principle of mortality will be infused into a government which the lovers of mankind have wished might last to the end of the world. With a mixture of the executive and legislative powers in one body, no government can long remain uncorrupt. With a corrupt executive, liberty may long retain a trembling existence. With a corrupt legislature, it is impossible: the vitals of the Constitution would be mortified, and death must follow in every step. A government thus formed would be the most formidable curse that could befall this country. Perhaps an enlightened people might timely foresee and correct the error; but if a season was allowed for such a compound to grow and produce its natural fruit, it would either banish liberty, or the people would he driven to exercise their unalienable right, the right of uncivilized nature, and destroy a monster whose voracious and capacious jaws could crush and swallow up themselves and their posterity."
- Fisher Ames, House of Representatives, June 16, 1789. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution [Elliot's Debates, Volume 4]