Vermontistan’s hoplophobic Marxist Mullahs continue to notch wins in their war against the Bill of Rights, while so-called Republican Gov Phil Scott can’t even be bothered to pretend he’s interested in protecting them.
The plan requires a 72-hour waiting period to purchase a firearm, it calls for the safe home storage of guns, and it expands the use of risk prevention orders.
Scott says he has strong concerns that the waiting period is unconstitutional, but he allowed the bill to become law without his signature because he says the issue will likely be settled in federal court.
While Vermont Democrats make public safety shadow puppets, Gov. Phil figures it’s okay to take a knee and hope the courts will shine a light he can’t be bothered to bring to bear. It’s a missed opportunity.
The Dem majority legislature would likely override any veto, but that’s the point. Much like the poorly conceived and unpopular Heat Standard legislation, you could have made them double down on the gun grab. By abrogating your duty, both political (as the de facto figurehead of your state Republican party) and constitutional (you swore an oath, dumbass), you’ve given the left a free ride further down the slippery slope on the notion that millions of dollars and years in court that the right judge on the right day might agree with you.
A veto might not have changed the inevitability of passage via override, but not one Democrat had to double down before their constituents over the whittling away of their rights. You abandoned those optics, and Vermont Republicans would be right to wonder what else they will be asked to surrender.
As a friend, author, and ‘Grok blogger Ian Underwood reminds us,
Justice Thomas rightly noted in Bruen that the kinds of restrictions that have been placed on the right to keep and bear arms are simply not applied to other constitutional rights. …
A right is fundamental. It’s something you have simply by virtue of being human, and it is, as the Declaration of Independence says, inalienable. It can’t be taken from you or even given away because it’s part of who you are.
When do the Democrats roll out the 72-hour waiting period to exercise your right to free speech or assembly? Will there be a form you must fill out or a pencil-pusher to appease mandatory training and speech red flag laws? Too absurd?
All the liberties lost during COVID should be fresh in the minds of the masses —religious, assembly, and association. Many lost their body autonomy to people who made their name fighting for a woman’s right to her own. Free speech was likewise assaulted as people who turned out to be right about almost everything had that speech flagged as misinformation to be censored at the direction of the government on social media.
Criminals don’t care about waiting periods, and red flag laws are not passed in the interests of the vulnerable; they are a selectively applied political weapon wielded clumsily by partisans responsible for understaffed local law enforcement. An idea that, not that long ago, would have inspired outrage in Vermont. These days you can’t even get your Republican governor to try and put some political points on the board.
HT | WSHU.org
