How A Nation Can and Does Change...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation U S A Lib e rty -vs- Tyr a nny "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States." –Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 1787 That was then. In an interview with the Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa, state Rep. Dan Muhlbauer said governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms. Muhlbauer, a Democrat from the western Iowa town of Manilla, is a cattleman and farmer. The newspaper reported that he owns a .410 shotgun, a .22 rifle and a .22 pistol. “We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semi-automatics and all of th...
FoxNews reminds me of the GOP congressional hearings: they explain their side and interrupt and ignore
ReplyDeletethe other. If they tout the NRA line and say guns are regulated, come out this way: anyone can carry a weapon on campus but cigarettes are banned, cars and licensed and taxed and must be insured- the driver having passed both written and driving test and plain old pipe tobacco is taxed at $30/lb. You want to drive a delivery truck you need a CDL and requisite written/driving tests. You want to volunteer at the school-you need to be finger printed. Meanwhile, you may get your gun from Charlie the Fence, at any
frequent gunshow, over the internet, or build it yourself-then you may load up your home and vehicle with
as many as you need for 'protection'. Your physician cannot legally require if you have one, your are permitted to carry it into a bar, church, kiddy park or local parade. As far as a 'well regulated militia',
we have had one since the founding (and Scalia prounced that causative phrase as 'meaningless', so
we seem stuck with the ubiquitous boytoys (heck, they are in many women's purses too, one up north
went off while a mother was checking out at the big store and went through her baby daugher's head)
and if anyone dare mention regulation, however scanty, they are un-American. Nonsense, pure nonsense.