Our constitution was effectively re-written once again this week, as a group of liberal judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the right to gun ownership in public is not protected by the constitution. It makes one wonder, if judges think that the ability to carry a gun isn’t a constitutional right, what does the Second Amendment protect?
This ruling is further proof of the dire need this country has for conservative judge appointments, and no sitting Governor seems more aware of this than Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
In a tweet attacking the senseless conceal carry decision, Abbott leveled a clear threat, “come and get it.”
Unfortunately for the Governor, state executives and legislators are being stripped of their rights to create and enforce the laws in their own states. Instead, activist judges have decided to grant themselves lawmaking power in order to push their personal agendas.
Continue reading on the next page to see the Court of Appeal’s shockingly absurd decision:
One of the many reasons I will always reside in Texas.
Carl says, “He is a first class jerk. The Second Amendment doesn’t mention guns at all. If you are a pro-death Republican like Abbott, you should read the angry letter President Bush (41) wrote the merchants of death in the NRA resigning his lifetime membership because they are anti-American and pro-terrorist.”
Carl says, “I wonder if Abbott has been any closer to combat than a drunken frat party? Or, is he just another cowardly chicken hawk like Trump?”
If it was background ONLY, I wouldn’t care. The background is very necessary, the other BS is NOT.
Put Kate’s Law out there for common sense gun laws and see if the democrats will vote for it!
“Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness.” Sun Tsu, The Art of War
Whether we want to admit it or not, we are at war with an enemy that lives among us. Motivated by hate. Its warriors live among us, hidden and protected by the very things we value most, our Freedom and our Constitutional protections. They are hard to identify in advance. They are impossible to individually identify and separate from the neighbors we all know and love. They are…formless.
How do we defend against “formlessness”? The answer is both simple and hard – simple to say, yet hard to accept for most people. Whether we like it or not, we must “be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness” in our defenses.
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” U.S. Constitution, 2nd Amendment
At the time that our Constitution was framed, “well regulated” was common vernacular for well equipped, well trained or practiced. We want to think of the term in its modern context, but that loses the traction that the Founding Fathers intended. The term “militia”, has always been used to refer to an armed citizenry. In fact, it is often used to distinguish an armed citizenry from a more trained and disciplined (“regulated” in the modern vernacular) military force. The intent of our Founding Fathers and the then contemporary understanding was even codified in the Militia Act of 1792, which actually required males between certain ages to have certain firearms and ammunition immediately ready and to train regularly. Of course, we no longer discriminate by age or gender – but the concept of an armed citizenry being an essential line of defense is abundantly clear.
The terrorist shooting attacks in Mumbai, Belgium and Paris should serve as stark examples that gun controls do not prevent these events. All of these places have very strict gun controls, yet the attackers even used fully automatic weapons that we do not have ready access to here in the U.S. Pursuing more gun laws that will also be ignored by the enemy is foolishness.
In all of the mass shootings we’ve seen over the past several decades, NOT ONE PERSON HAS DIED SHOOTING BACK! They all died waiting in vain for someone with a gun to come and save them.
We need to get back to the basics of national security – we need to get back to our roots. We need a defense strategy that includes the Militia and the formlessness that is an always armed citizenry. Rather than further infringements on our rights, what we really should be doing is making it easier for “the militia” – every law-abiding citizen – to be always armed and ready to defend against a hateful enemy that hides among us. Rather than making it harder for people to carry a firearm, we should be making it easier, more normal, more ubiquitous. We need to end the hoplophobia (look it up) that has made us helpless victims.
It is NOT about whether or not an assailant has an AR-15 or any other semi-automatic weapon – it IS about whether or not their intended victims are prepared to fight back. Fight back or die – that is the reality we face, whether we like it or not!
Gun control is treason – let’s start calling it what it is!
Virginia Hess, What part of the 2 nd amendment don’t you understand. Well armed means what to you?
Virginia Hess, and jut as an fyi. I spent 30 months in Nam and 25 yrs in the military. Care to discuss more about limiting our rights?
Supreme court will over rule them and make them look like first year constitution students, AGAIN.
Trump?……