05-16-2017, 02:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-16-2017, 03:32 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(05-16-2017, 01:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'd suggest, that even repealing the Second Amendment would have no bearing on our right to bear arms in the event of an unconstitutional takeover of our government, and the peoples' right to overthrow it. That right is of course not going to exist in a constitution, but was stated in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence. If the Constitution has been in-effect abrogated by the government and its leaders, then the 2nd amendment has no bearing on our right to bear arms one way or the other, because the Constitution is moot. If those who want to have arms to defend liberty against the state, have already decided that our government is unconstitutional, they have to take responsibility for their judgement in that regard, and the consequences of opposing this government. But, at some point, I might agree with these rebels.
Trump has flip flopped on a lot of his campaign promises. Should he flip flop on the 2nd Amendment, should he start asserting the People ought to be disarmed, should he double cross the NRA, even I might visit a gun store.
Don't know that he'll be going that far. He's really got to hang on to some sort of base. Going all out gun prohibition would get rid of a lot of his base real quick.
Isn't it written somewhere that Revolution can be a spectator sport, an innocent way of spending time? You can be a wannabe Thomas Paine or William Lloyd Garrison and post inflammatory stuff on the internet without joining John Brown's Harper Ferry raid or dressing up as a native and throwing tea in the harbor? Right? Isn't it safer to write stuff rather than to assault the White House?
I like tea.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.