Tonight, I’m outside Allentown, PA.
The truck is running fine, but I wonder about getting any runs in NYC.
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The snow down there is still a problem. According to everything I’m hearing, and seeing, the socialist paradise that is New York City has apparently not managed to plow itself out. All the reports would suggest that the first serious test of city services being run by the avowed communist Bill de Blasio has been dramatically failed.
I can’t say I’m surprised.
The central subject is gun control today.
The very notion that somehow the people themselves were never intended to keep and bear their own weaponry is ludicrous and utter liberal stupidity at it’s finest. If weapons are to be held by “well regulated” (which the anti-gun types invariably take to mean governmentally controlled…) militia, then how are the people supposed to maintain their ability to perform one of their primary mandates…which is to overthrow an over-reaching, unconstitutional or tyrannical government ?
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It’s nonsensical to believe that the founders would not have the foresight to enable the citizenry to defend themselves against a tyrannical government considering that this nation was born out of just such a conflict, but by those self same founders.
Founders, by the way, who made their wishes on the point clear…
“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.”
? James Madison, The Constitution of the United States of America“The constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
? Alexander Hamilton“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
? George Washington“[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
? James Madison“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms.”
? Richard Henry Lee, The Letters of Richard Henry Lee 1762-1778 V1“The Right is General – It might be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent. The militia as has been elsewhere explained consists of those persons who under the law are liable to the performance of military duty and are officered and enrolled for service when called upon. But the law may make provision for the enrollment of all who are fit to perform military duty or of a small number only or it may wholly omit to make any provision at all and if the right were limited to those enrolled the purpose of this guaranty might be defeated altogether by the action or neglect to act of the government it was meant to hold in check. The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is that the people from whom the militia must be taken shall have the right to keep and bear arms and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose.”
? Thomas McIntyre Cooley, General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America;
Furthermore, this liberal notion that somehow the perceived safety of the individual ( and not all individuals, but only those that liberals have deemed worthy of such protection…which is apparent from the calls for violence from the left towards those they disagree with on the right. ) is more compelling and paramount than the rights of all citizens , as a whole, is ridiculous liberal babble. The idea that one individual or a group’s perception overrides the expressed rights of any individual or group is not a concept that can even exist in a nation where liberty and freedom of the individual is the primary concern.
The right to keep and bear arms belongs to every citizen, whether they choose to exercise that right or not. If an individual decides to forego that right, they choose not to exercise that right..that is their decision. They do not have the power or authority to deny others the freedom to choose whether or not they exercise their rights. The Bill of Rights is a limitation on governmental power not the power of citizens. It was the people’s way of stating that they agreed to be governed by this new system, but only if they had these specific and undeniable rights. The Constitution of the United States is a contract between the government and the citizenry and that contract cannot be changed except by the methods contained within it. So liberals, if you want to end the right of the people to keep and bear arms do it the way the constitution intended. Sure, it will be one Hell of a fight, but not any worse than simply attempting to infringe upon them one regulation and one EO at a time, or trying to confiscate them in one fell swoop. Do it according to the law and principles laid out and then at least, when the battle does come, you can say you followed the Constitution
….even though we all know you don’t give a damn about it.
As for the leftist assertion that it’s all about the children, I noticed that at least one person agrees with you on this point.
” The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
? Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.