Words have meanings, else why have them? - Granite Grok

Words have meanings, else why have them?

US Constitution, Second Amendment:

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.

NH Constitution, Article 2A:

All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

And yet, Democrats / Socialists keep believing that they can ignore those plain words.

We have written much about the NH Democrats ignoring their own Constitution – certainly the spirit of it as well as the words even as they swear an oath to uphold and protect it:

  • NH State Rep. Debra DeSimone (R): The Constitution is a guideline”
  • NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.

Or in the case of many, they see it as a stumbling block to achieve their agenda of civilian disarmament,  And we have seen almost every tactic to either overtly confiscate our guns or attack every area that would diminish the obtaining of guns, the use of, or the ammo used in “bearing arms” (else a gun is just a club) or make it so expensive so as to make it unavailable to the average Joe / Jane.

We’re seeing it here in NH and in Georgia, Washington State, the US Congress (again) and California (who has chipped away so much that the ability to have and use a gun is getting to be like that mythical chemical called Unobtainium.  The anti-gunners keep calling their efforts curbing gun violence, or more lately, gun safety.  To be sure, it is none of those.

It is like what we see in politics: Democrats go to Liberals go to Progressives go to Socialists & Marxists (except they won’t admit to the last one even if their tactics scream it to be true).  It isn’t about the Second Amendment, it is about getting to the point where ONLY The State has the monopoly on Force – the exact opposite of what the Second Amendment and Article 2-A hold.

But they don’t care.

You know, the Constitutions are our foundational laws and philosophy.  With that in mind, and the above in mind, doesn’t that “speak truth to power” that the Left does NOT love this country?  If you cannot love it as originally constituted under the Constitutions, then you love something completely different.

As in “Fundamentally changing the US” that somebody famous once said.

(H/T: RedState)

Update: and of course, Obama.  Much has been made by Obama of background checks to keep guns out of the hands of bad people.  We’ve also seen him use the VA and now Social Security to made their own Administrative law to deny guns to people simply because their money is handled by others. Well, now comes word via The Truth About Guns that the Obama Administration is not just taking due process away on the front end of this issue but the back end as well:

Feds Stop Processing NICS Denial Appeals

…Each year thousands of Americans are wrongfully denied their Second Amendment rights when NICS incorrectly determines that they are prohibited from firearm ownership. Compounding this grave injustice, this week the FBI made public that they have stopped processing NICS denial appeals.

One and done – that’s all the “justice” you clingers to guns deserve is the message.  If there is no appeal, there can be no justice.

Just that your rights are taken away and Obama is just dandy with it.

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