There is the “Militia purpose” clause, with 13 words. Then there is the “keep and bear Arms” clause, with 14 words. Two clauses and 27 words. This is an uncomfortable fact to those accustomed to reading only half of the Amendment, reciting the last 14 words over and over again as if the first 13 didn’t exist.
Of course they all exist, Paul. You're the ones arguing the militia are not "the whole people," but just that fraction in active service to the government.
By the way, how come no comments on your blog, Paul? What are you afraid of? I guess your supporters will have to troll "pro-gun" sites to chime in their support for your subversive lies.
I thought you'd established the deception that you were some sort of violence prevention campaign, because the old monicker revealed too much about your mindset and goals...
"Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death.
ReplyDelete"I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings."
-- L. Neil Smith
Paul needs to just accept that the Second Amendment forbids government meddling into TWO rights, the right to form militias and the right of the individual to own and to carry guns.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be comments on the blog. They shut them off w/ the beginning of "Reasoned Discourse". I think it was around last April or so.
ReplyDeleteWe owned the place. There were two regular anti-supporters, Kelli and Macca. Macca turned out to be Marsha MacCarthy, a Brady Board Member from Texas. Haven't heard from her since. Kelli now trolls over at the HuffPo crossposting. Which we also own.
It amuses me to consider the fact that these accusations (that gun rights advocates are conveniently overlooking part of the Second Amendment text that Helmke thinks we find inconvenient) are coming from the head of an organization whose legal "expert" recited the Second Amendment without mentioning the "of the people" part.
ReplyDeleteThe plain meaning of the words are decisive on their face for any honest reading.
ReplyDeleteFor those folks for whom an honest reading just won't do ;-), the National Guard argument is dead since Perpich v. DOD (1990). That pretty much leaves 10 USC 311 as the only game in town (though IANAL).
What!? Sara & her cronies would lie to us?
ReplyDeleteBut they have admitted it's ok as long as it furthers their agenda
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Of course we have the right to comment there, but it's a "collective right", so Helmke is handling all the commenting for us. Does that make sense?
The anti-gun crowd does what they do in order that we will eventually have no RTKBA. At that point the gov't will be more than free to run roughshod over all the citizenry. I hope they enjoy their enslavemnent. I don't want to participate.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious the the HANDGUN CONTROL Inc. folks visit and see their aganda outed so plainly.
ReplyDeleteOffice morale over there must be abysmal.
I also wonder what kind of self-loathing a person must have to further that agenda in the first place.