via Orlin Sellers who especially liked the "except for government" part.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Five Myths about Gun Control
Washington Post - myth number 5.
5. The Second Amendment was intended to protect the right of Americans to rise up against a tyrannical government.
This canard is repeated with disturbing frequency. The Constitution, in Article I, allows armed citizens in militias to “suppress Insurrections,” not cause them. The Constitution defines treason as “levying War” against the government in Article III, and the states can ask the federal government for assistance “against domestic Violence” under Article IV.
Our system provides peaceful means for citizens to air grievances and change policy, from the ballot box to the jury box to the right to peaceably assemble. If violence against an oppressive government were somehow countenanced in the Second Amendment, then Timothy McVeigh and Lee Harvey Oswald would have been vindicated for their heinous actions. But as constitutional scholar Roscoe Pound noted, a “legal right of the citizen to wage war on the government is something that cannot be admitted” because it would “defeat the whole Bill of Rights” — including the Second Amendment.
In NC - Drunken Lawful Gun Owner Accidentally Kills 15-Year-old Neighbor
Local news reports
Sarcastic gun-rights fanatics love to ask, when they know there is no answer, "what law would have prevented this?" Well, in this case we have a clear answer. The irresponsible gun owner should have been disarmed already.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Perry is also angry because she says this is not the first time Furey's had a gun accident. The Johnston County Sheriff's Office confirms deputies were called to his David Drive home last month, but Furey was not arrested. Perry says the incident involved shots Furey accidentally fired at a neighbor's home.Like many of these accidental shootings, a strict one strike you're out policy would have prevented it.
“They didn’t arrest him. They didn’t take his guns," Perry said. "They didn’t do anything but tell him don’t use firearms when he’s drinking alcohol, which was a regular thing for the man.”
Sarcastic gun-rights fanatics love to ask, when they know there is no answer, "what law would have prevented this?" Well, in this case we have a clear answer. The irresponsible gun owner should have been disarmed already.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
1995: George H.W. Bush Resigned Lifetime NRA Membership Over La Pierre Fanaticism
“On April 13, less than a week before the Oklahoma City bombing, Mr. LaPierre signed a fund-raising letter asserting that President Clinton’s ban on assault weapons ‘gives jackbooted Government thugs more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property and even injure and kill us,’” The New York Times reported in May of 1995:
From a “special report” in “The American Rifleman,” the N.R.A. magazine, June 1994 edition, written by Wayne R. LaPierre Jr., the association’s executive vice president. It is titled, “The Final War Has Begun.”
“How long are the American people going to put up with this sort of thing? It is popular at this time to compare the behavior our uncontrolled Federal agents to that of the Nazis in the Third Reich. It may be that this is a valid comparison, but the Nazis are long ago and far away, whereas the ninja in the U.S. are right now in full-cry and apparently without fear of any sort of control. The move mainly at night. They conceal their faces. They use overwhelming firepower and the make almost no effort to identify their targets. They are scarier than the Nazis — who at least never concealed their faces.”The first President Bush's response, final two paragraphs of his letter:
However, your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us.
You have not repudiated Mr. LaPierre’s unwarranted attack. Therefore, I resign as a Life Member of N.R.A., said resignation to be effective upon your receipt of this letter. Please remove my name from your membership list. Sincerely, [ signed ] George Bush
Lawrence O'Donnell on the Lobbyist for Mass Murderers
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Lawrence O'Donnell on the Wayne La Pierre Speech
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