Is anyone else tired of politicians and gun-grabbers unwilling to say the obvious? - Granite Grok

Is anyone else tired of politicians and gun-grabbers unwilling to say the obvious?

of the Constitution?From the Union Leader:

Kuster said Congress must act to expand background checks for gun sales at shows and online, and if a suspected terrorist is considered too dangerous to fly, they should not be able to buy a gun.

No, it is NOT that “they should not be able to buy a gun” – Annie Kuster is just the latest to be quoted saying it.  Certainly, Kelly Ayotte has been saying it (but Jeanne Shaheen thinks we’re all bad for buying guns and have ill intent). All these self-adoring, pandering, power-hungry “that Constitutional thingie is just dried parchment” control freaks are doing is using the most horrific terrorist acts in recent history (9/11).

They should be tarred and feathered.  All of them.

First, for being said  “self-adoring, pandering, power-hungry “that Constitutional thingie is just dried parchment” control freaks” who believe that the Proper Role of Government is not, as the founders stated, to protect our Liberty but to legislate behavior.  For the Progressives, this is using any means to get to their end – civilian disarmament by using death by a thousand regulations and laws.  For Republicans, it is simply achieving the first part of the meme (and forgetting about the more important part) “Winning is only a precursor; it is what you do afterwards is most important”.

Second, and the more important part of that “self-justification for being seen as doing something important” on “too dangerous to fly, they should not be able to buy a gun” is a very plain truth.  If you are “too dangerous to fly” is isn’t that you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun:

YOU SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED.

And removed from civilian society. Period.  Dangerous is dangerous. Using a plane, using a gun – the mal-intent is the same.

But then, they’d be breaking the law.  But here again, they are unwilling to state the obvious – what crime have they committed?  We have not yet devolved to being a “Minority Report” society; we still are a nation that assumes innocence before guilt.  But each and every one of these Constitutional “benders” and slippery sliders are all too willing (again) to use 9/11 to begin the circumnavigation around what should be Constitutional barbed wire (as in “never go there; full stop”) in furtherance of a post-Constitutional America.

But that would also take political courage to say “the means justifies the end”, in this case, of blithely be willing to accuse ordinary Americans of something for which they have no proof – is removing a Constitutional Right on a nothing but a feeling the right thing to do?  Or have our Rights that are not in favor with Progressives become merely that trivial? And that their Oaths to protect our Liberties, the main purpose of the Proper Role of Government, are just meaningless, merely a ritual  of being able to assume their offices?  Do they never think of what the words really mean that they say?

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just said on “This Week” on talking about this issue between the Democrats and the Republicans:

We have a difference of opinion about a permanent blocking of the ability to exercise a Constitutional Right.

A Right delayed is a Right denied.  Either we are Citizens that have Rights that cannot be diminished by acts either by unelected bureaucrats or elected officials, or we are lowly subjects that are subject to the whims of the current political winds wafting through the Capital? For if they can deny the full exercise of any Right (whether you agree or not on this specific issue of guns), what is the next thing they can (or will) do?

And no, I don’t trust the Republicans (like McConnell OR Ayotte) on this issue than I do somebody like Annie Kuster or Maggie “The Red” Hassan.  If anything, I trust them LESS because, in the end, they are all too willing to dispense the Constitutional Right to Due Process in order to, in part, deny full exercise of the Second Amendment Right?

At least the Dems are being honest about their intent.  They’ve decided to pull the old switcheroo on what should be a debate on Terrorism by Islamic Jihadism in Orlando to their old ‘go to’ on taking away everyone’s guns.  And the Republicans have played into their game – badly.  But that’s what they do – politic badly.

Unless it is by purpose.  And I’m not sure how to tell those two things apart any more.

Update: Just listening to Rich Ashooh (running for Congress in NH’s Second DC) on WMUR’s CloseUP – and he effective swatted away Josh McElven’s use of the Democrats”assault weapon” meme properly – as in that an AR-15 ISN’T an assault weapon (that Leftist made up political tag).

 

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