amazed to see gun control advocates lamenting folks ceasing and desisting in the fight against gun control!
Oh gosh, this LULLING and lying is nothing new for King Brown. He's been doing it for years. He was trying to tell us that membership in the NRA was declining when it was growing. And who could forget when he told us that his idol Barack Obama had kept his legislative gun in his holster when he knew damn well that Obama had pursued more anti-gun restrictions and signed numerous executive orders to enact restrictions he could not get through Congress?
It's hardly mean-spirited to note that I'm an Obama supporter. I'm proud of it, apparent here as long as he's been around. He's anti-gun but has kept his legislative gun in his holster to position his party for '16.
He basically said the same thing here, after once again making the false claim that the Supreme Court changed the meaning of the 2nd Amendment:
The Court in 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller changed the 200-year-old narrowly interpreted Second from serving in the militia to an individual right. Do you favour democratic processes over justice of stacked courts?
Why I ask, as I mentioned earlier, is that there is no political will to change regulations; Obama talked about it but did nothing. What party would commit suicide by taking away what a majority considers a sacred right?
But King has made that same false claim about the Supreme Court, or the NRA, or Attorney General John Ashcroft changing the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution concerning the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms many times... even after being shown numerous quotes by the Framers proving their intent:
The Court departed from the original understanding of the Second. The NRA and other groups rejected the original interpretation. Even as late as 1991, the jurist Burger appointed by Nixon said "the Second Amendment has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud,' on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime." In 2008, in the District of Columbia v. Heller, what Burger said was fraud was accepted by the court. Interesting stuff.
Ed, historically the individual "right" to bear arms is relatively new. I believe John Ashcroft in 2002 became the first federal attorney-general to proclaim that individuals should be able to own guns. The Supreme Court in 2008 overturned all mainstream legal and historical scholarship by ruling that there is an individual right to own firearms although with some limits. Obama said it again last week.
I believe that during the previous 218 years the Second meant what it said: firearms shall be held by "the People"---a collective and not individual right---insofar they are in the service of "a well-regulated militia." Was an individual right even mentioned at the Constitutional Convention or in the House when it ratified the Amendment or when debated in state legislatures? I don't think so.
While most gun owners celebrated the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court Heller and McDonald decisions affirming our rights, King was sorry that a pro-2nd Amendment President had been able to nominate a pro-2nd Amendment Justice, and tip the balance away from Liberal Left Judicial activists who see the Constitution as a so-called "Living Document", subject to whims and personal opinions rather than Original Intent:
If the Supreme Court hadn't decided for Bush with a half-million less votes than Gore on a one-time-only theory of the Constitution's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws," the Second today would protect states' authority only to raise militias and not individuals' right to own guns.
And here's where King was even able to make excuses for Liberal Left Democrats who violate their Oath to "Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution", and then work to infringe upon the 2nd Amendment:
With respect, you tend to believe the written as something sacrosanct as it appears in the Constitution and other bills. Look at the Oath you posted: It says only that the president will do to "the best of my ability" to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. What he determines "best"---wrongly or rightly.
This is but a small fraction of King's history here. This is his anti-2nd Amendment legacy... relentlessly working to undermine and demoralize American gun owners. Just the kind of guy you want in your Big Tent of gun owners... stabbing you in the back until his last breath.
