The cancer infecting the political Left

[pbrower2a]

(12-08-2020, 05:03 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-07-2020, 02:37 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If I could I would rewrite the Second Amendment so that it makes clear that... 

I’m mostly with you.  A few tweaks.

If you are going to remove a right, you need due process.  This would require a felony conviction, or a professional psychological decision.  That is a higher standard than being banned from a militia unit.

Of course. The Armed Services do not want criminals. I would have been 4-F for a bad back, little arm strength, and Asperger's syndrome. None of those would have affected my trustworthiness with a firearm.  

Quote:The National Guard is a federal standing army.  The militia cannot be sent abroad.  When Teddy Roosevelt set up the current system, he wanted a reserve that could be sent abroad, that could be called up without congressional approval.  An alternate line of command to the state was there, but the Nation Guard is paid for by federal money, and if the president calls a unit into service, the governor is out of luck.  An example was when George Wallace sent the Guard to a state university to prevent black students from integrating, and John Kennedy responded by federally taking command of the Guard.

It is under the command of the Governor in its most usual applications (responses to natural disasters), but a Governor who uses the state National Guard for unconstitutional purposes (like Orval Faubus using the Arkansas National Guard to thwart desegregation) can find that by a Presidential decree that the State National Guard can have to answere to the President instead.  

Quote:I see civilian weapons as being limited in power per shot, speed of fire and size of magazine.  Would you try for anything else?

That might largely reduce 'gun rights' to hunting. Most criminals dread this:



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