And THIS is the nub of the problem caused by our Legislators - on BOTH sides of the aisle - Granite Grok

And THIS is the nub of the problem caused by our Legislators – on BOTH sides of the aisle

I have said this over and over and over again – and the problem is brought upon by legislators on both side of the aisle – the lack of respect for our Constitutions and the principles behind why we have government.  Susan posted Ian Underwood’s testimony on NH HB 1589 – a law that would require all sales of all firearms to be handled by FFL agents of the Government in undergoing background checks by buyers.  The money line is bolded:

The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature — whether regarding guns, or schools, or traffic laws, or anything else?

If we’re going to disregard the big rules, why pay any attention to the smaller ones? For that matter, if words like ‘all’ and ‘person’ no longer mean what they’ve meant for centuries, then why should we pretend that laws, which are made of words, mean anything at all? In other words, if you can behave as if ‘all’ doesn’t mean ‘all’, why can’t I behave as if ‘not’ doesn’t mean ‘not’?

The essence of this law is to continue the process of turning us from Free and Sovereign Citizens that have a Government instituted to protect the Liberties that accrue to us simply by being alive to a Country and Government that bestows privileges upon its wards – and withdraws them as well, both on political whims instead on absolute values. At our founding, Citizens decided to have a government for THEM, with citizens being preeminent.  Progressives believe that this relationship MUST be reversed: that Government should remove such parts of our implicit Freedoms and Liberties such that it would rule its subjects.

I can’t emphasize this enough:

  • Once more, Government is diminishing the Right to Private Property (effectively forcing us to say “Mommy, may I sell this to my friend / family member?”)
  • It turns our judicial philosophy upside down – it assumes that both buyer and seller are automatically guilty from the get-go; one has to prove their innocence

Why, indeed, should we respect what legislators do when they won’t respect what our Founders did?  We talk about a limited government; our Constitutions were written to be limiting documents.  Yet, our legislators are on paths that say “Sniff, those are all dead people that wrote those musty tomes – times have changed and they do not meet what we believe in”. Man, isn’t that the truth!

They maliciously refuse to acknowledge that they were written to constrain human nature and not just as template for governance.  Ask yourself – as role models, if they are not constrained by our Constitutions (our foundational law), I agree with Ian, why should we Citizens feel that we should be constrained by their mere laws?  Put it this way: if they show us that they are acting in ways that are anarchist with respect to those limiting values, why can’t we?  Why are they

Or is that the actual problem – that our legislators refuse to believe that they are not answerable to a higher calling?  Be it our Creator or by our foundational values (which, btw, they have sworn an oath to uphold and protect?).  That “free-lancing” after being elected is just peachy keen and they don’t have to respect that originalist relationship of citizen and government?

And oh, by the way, it speaks to an urgency that just does not exist here in New Hampshire – ask yourself, when was the last time that a murder was committed with a gun so sold?

 

 

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