‘Common Sense Gun Laws’: Obama’s Attack on the Second Amendment
Larry G, here I am sitting and enjoying my “affordable” Shiraz thinking I’m rather mellow.
@Anthony R. Seta: There’s much that’s sensible in you post #98. You start out well in the following passage:
“We have a great right in the USA to own firearms. This concept doesn’t exist in much of the globe. Let’s not blow it people. It is worthy to at least attempt to work with the current administration to maintain a right that can only be guaranteed by our government. The constitution is the government.” Now, I’m no constitutional scholar, but I do believe you’ve off the tracks pretty badly in the last two sentences of that passage; the last in particular. I rather doubt that any constitutional scholar or historian would agree with that last sentence. The Constitution stands above all Congresses and Presidencies since the beginning. What powers governments possess are derived from the Constitution and the necessary assent of the people; not the other way around. Governments come and go, the Constitution remains. The 2nd Amendment right derives from the authority of the Constitution and the will of the people to see that constitutional rights are respected by all governments past, present, and future. This is not a right anyone needs to beg for from this or any government.
