JoseCuervo
New member
We haven't checked in on the looney-tune sherriff lately, and guess what, he is ranting about the Constititution and the Second Ammendment....
Here's Mike!
Sheriff Michael E. Cook, Retired
I just can't believe that we are still fighting over what the Second Amendment actually stated about the right to bear arms. Anyone with enough education to read can see that it is a God given right for each person to bear arms. Kind of interesting that God gave us the right to bear arms.... I keep forgetting the difference between the Second Commandment and the Second Ammendment.....
It's that simple.
Now that the United States Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel has released a document that affirms that this an individual right, the anti-gun people are going nuts. The old argument that it only gives the states the right to arm a militia is so much smoking mirrors. (What is a "smoking" mirror??? Is that what happens when someone ugly looks in a mirror????)
The research done by many people over the years also shows that the Supreme Court has said that it is an individual right many times over and over. However, the anti-gun people keep attempting to hang their hat on a case from 1939 which involved a bootlegger named Miller. It seems Miller had a sawed off shotgun with barrels less than 18 inches. His conviction for this was upheld by the Supreme Court in defense of the old machine gun act a few years earlier. As I understand it, Miller and his Attorney didn't even show up for the final arguments in this case.
The antis also keep going to a 9th Circuit Court finding in San Francisco California that the Second Amendment is not an individual right. Let me say this, this is the most overturned court in all the United States and is full of liberal judges who fully support the liberal agenda at every turn. They don't do the job with any attention to the Constitution and frequently find based solely on their own liberal agenda. Most of them should be removed from office and replaced by judges who will apply the Constitution as they are meant to do.
The Federal courts have dropped the ball on that finding also by not hearing this case. I think, like many others, that the Supreme Court is going to have to make case law in this regard in the near future. I hope and prey they will do the right thing and make it very clear, as the Second Amendment does, that this is an individual right. If not, then the Constitution is not worth the paper it is written on and America as we know it will no longer be a free nation and a strong republic.
This fight for our rights continues to cost tax dollars and valuable time by those we elect to represent us. This is stupid at best. Both sides of this issue - the pro-gun and anti-gun groups - are scared to bring it to the courts because they are worried about the outcome. Unless they can do it in the 9th Circuit Court, the anti-gun groups attempt to keep this out of court. This is because they know this court is in agreement with their cause.
I still believe that the Republicans won the highest office in this land in the last election for two very basic issues, first was the right to bear arms, which most Americans believe in and want protected. The second reason was because there are a lot of Vietnam Veterans in America who had very little or no use at all for a traitor like John Kerry. That is what made the difference at the voting booth.
It all boils down to this, "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." How hard can it be, regulated means simply, controlled or well equipped. The military must be controlled so that they don't take over, and when this was put to print the militia was every able bodied man as we didn't have a large standing army. So we needed them all to have firearms so that we could fight wars. The word "people" when used in the Constitution is referring to all the citizens of this great country of ours. Just look at where they placed the commas. It don't take a rocket scientist to figure it out, and from what I've seen, we sure don't need a bunch of liberal whacko attorney's taking this on either.
The Department of Justice was right, so let it stand and let's get on with life.
God Bless America and God Bless our troops still in harm's way.
