Notes from the Resistance
“So, to clarify, Mr. Chairman, you’re saying it is the point of the bill to ban weapons that are in common use in the United States today,” the Republican representative pressed.
“Yes,” Nadler clarified. “The problem is that they’re in common use.” [More]
The response will be no laughing matter.
[Via Michael G]
“My friend from Texas, Mr. Roy, advances the so-called insurrectionist view of the second amendment, that the second amendment’s purpose is to give the people the right to overthrow or fight our government or fight the police or threaten armed resistance if the government is somehow being unfair or unjust,” Raskin said. “This reading is totally and absolutely absurd and flies in the face of the place text of the constitution.” [More]
Don’t tell us. Tell Alexander Hamilton:
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…
That and he’s not your friend, buddy…
Missouri sheriff says even under ‘threat of arrest’ he will not release gun owners’ info to FBI – ‘I will go down with the ship if need be,’ the sheriff says [More]
I’m sorry, but while everybody’s waving flags, my first thought is “What’s he doing with that information in the first place?”
[Via bondmen]
Neither the law nor the Second Amendment prevents Congress from banning such weapons. [More]
They’ve proven over the years they can do practically anything they want and mere words on paper won’t stop them.
Your move, domestic enemies.
House Democrats are trying to condition Americans to repeal the Second Amendment. pic.twitter.com/MSOdkKbTBO
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 13, 2022
Not that that would invalidate the right to keep and bear arms…
Any bets on Donald Trump ever giving Thomas Massie the public apology he owes him?
I’ll have more to say on the foolish and subversive “Active Shooter Alert” — and the foolish and subversive Republicans who appear to be doing their utmost to break up a “red wave — in an article I’m planning to write soon.
[Via Jess]
Make no mistake: His totalitarian position, and that’s exactly what it is, is “Surrender and obey or be destroyed.” His sick ego invites civil war and untold deaths unless his demands are met. [More]
As long as it’s somebody else taking the risks of enforcing the tyranny he demands…
SOME IN CONGRESS WANT TO KNOW WHY ATF IS CHOKING THE 2ND AMENDMENT SUPPLY CHAIN [More]
Mr. Pynchon has a relevant observation.
[Via Ron W]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen a proliferation of snipers—equipped with a variety of rifles—on both sides. Here, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of military sniping takes a look at the combatants, along with their arms and ammunition. [More]
Most idiot gun-grabbers have no idea what they will unleash here if they keep squeezing.
[Via Jess]
Why the Second Amendment Applies Especially to Travelers [More]
Good stuff. I’m surprised this was left out:
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to … keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
And yeah, I’m hip to “give.”
Particularly after Heller and McDonald, as recently reaffirmed by Bruen, the government certainly cannot prevent Petitioner from exercising his Second Amendment right to keep firearms in the home. And the Second Circuit may not use Torvicia’s exercise of that constitutional right to render him vulnerable to government searches and seizures of his
firearms which violate Fourth Amendment protections but for some atextual, judge-invented special needs exception. [More]
“Single issue” apologists and flat-out deceivers take note.
[Via Jess]
THE 28th AMENDMENT – My proposal to repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment – Michael Moore [More]
I’m just remembering when NRA didn’t have the guts to repeal and replace Michael Moore.
I am getting a kick out of “Comments,” particularly where animaladjusted leftists are melting down over this:
“Remove (a) licensed hunters of game … We don’t need to abuse and shoot wildlife but need to protect it … Hunters aren’t conservationists, they just use this as a sorry excuse for their bloody wildlife abuse and murder … Agree. It’s toxic masculinity at its best…”
You hear that, Fudds? They’re coming for you.
Polyphemus may have promised to eat you last, but eat you he will.
[Via Jess]
Hoover’s lawyers asked Howard last week to rule that the National Firearms Act, a 1934 law that restricted machine gun ownership by creating a tax and license requirement on them, conflicts with the U [sic] Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantee of a right to bear arms. [More]
If the standard is whether NFA is consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding, of course, it conflicts.
Whether the rulers will admit that or not is a whole ‘nother story.
[Via Jess]
Has The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Outlived Its Usefulness? Intelligence Squared Debate [More]
More like Square-Rooted. A Pynchon quote comes to mind. Who but someone who misses the point, or more likely, wants you to, would ask such a question?
I like the way they kick the whole thing off by spreading an unchallenged “Constitution gives rights” fallacy, following that up with a mention of Heller, which specifically repudiated that by citing Cruikshank.
I find it telling that RealClear Politics picks now to resurrect a 2013 video to republicize the results:
Nothing like picking a conditioned and insulated New York audience with confirmation biases making them immune to reasoned evidence to guarantee an outcome.
It is a First Amendment case known as Junior Sports Magazine, Inc., et al, v. Bonta. Joining SAF in the motion are the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., the CRPA Foundation, Gun Owners of California, California Youth Shooting Sports Foundation, Redlands California Youth Clay Shooting Sports, Inc., and Junior Sports Magazines, Inc. [More]
So there’s more to this than a “sick marketing ploy“?
I can’t wait for them to win and see NRA take credit!
I’ll also rest my case on maintaining all the “single issue” excuses offered up here are a load of transparently evasive hooey.
California’s New Gun Control Law Designed To Bankrupt The Gun Industry [Watch]
Colion Noir expands on the latest Golden State gun and speech grab.
The ambitious Newsom can get away with that with an industry basically comprised of rope-welling capitalists.
And as Edwin Vieira Jr. noted in Kolbe v. Hogan:
This reliance on a permanent private market for firearms guaranteed that most militiamen, through their own efforts, could always obtain firearms suitable for both collective and individual self-defense, and forestalled tyranny by precluding rogue public officials from monopolizing the production, distribution, and possession of firearms.
The wannabe totalitarians are engaging in more than tyranny. Deliberately undermining “the security of a free State” is treason.
[Via Jess]
