Strict Construction, Conservative Style
This news, from the miserable Washington Times, because apparently no one else will cover it:
The "historically recognized" right to keep and bear arms. Recognized by whom? Of course, the second amendment does not even assert a right to own arms, only a right to "keep and bear" arms which, if you have read the Federalist papers, are to be supplied to the militias by the government.
So much for the intent of the founding fathers, or strict constructionism, when it stands in the way of what right wingers want. This is just one more of an infinite list of examples proving that these guys don't give a damn about the Constitution, any more than they care about anything that prevents them from doing what they want.
Scalia, their great Constitutional genius, could only find an individual right to bear arms by explicitly claiming that the first half of the second amendment had no meaning at all. That's how much respect they have for the Constitution, and this decision only extends their contempt for the plain words of the law.
"Constitutional protections afforded by the Second Amendment include the right to buy and sell firearms, a federal appeals court ruled Monday...Monday’s ruling did not strike down the local zoning ordinance, but it does declare that the right to buy and sell firearms “is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and to bear arms."
The "historically recognized" right to keep and bear arms. Recognized by whom? Of course, the second amendment does not even assert a right to own arms, only a right to "keep and bear" arms which, if you have read the Federalist papers, are to be supplied to the militias by the government.
So much for the intent of the founding fathers, or strict constructionism, when it stands in the way of what right wingers want. This is just one more of an infinite list of examples proving that these guys don't give a damn about the Constitution, any more than they care about anything that prevents them from doing what they want.
Scalia, their great Constitutional genius, could only find an individual right to bear arms by explicitly claiming that the first half of the second amendment had no meaning at all. That's how much respect they have for the Constitution, and this decision only extends their contempt for the plain words of the law.
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What does a Right wing Christian actually have to do to serve their idiot belief system? Nothing but show up to church occasionally and repeat abject nonsense, tolerate nothing that is different to themselves, be suspicious of the scientific processes that even makes their life possible, and hate everyone else. That’s it. That’s all of it.
About guns and just thinking out loud…
Can you, The People, not buy up all the legitimate manufacturers and pass a law making non-government production of firearms illegal? When Smith and Wesson co-operated with the Clinton administration the gun lobby turned on the company. If the government gets in bed with all of them then gun-fetishist losers will have no-one to go to but foreign brands and you slap such huge punitive tariffs on those that they become prohibitively expensive. Make it economically difficult to purchase these coward’s crutches.