I had the unique [dis]pleasure of
sitting in on Jim Himes’ Town Hall meeting yesterday. He expressed his
great pride that Connecticut pushed through great “common sense” gun
laws on a bi-partisan basis to create the strictest laws banning
“assault rifles” in the country. That is now the Progressive Meme, it
was a "bi-partisan" effort, which when translated from ProgSpeak, means in everyday language that Repugnicants held
us down so the Progs could administer a gang rape.
During the Q&A phase a breathless fellow who’s name I unfortunately forget said, effectively:
That second Amendment, I mean it was written like 200 years ago or
something, when only muskets existed. The framers of the constitution
couldn’t possibly have imagined the kind of arms that exist today, we
should just get rid of it. Much loud applause followed from the mostly blue hairs in attendance. Jim Himes let out a smarmy chuckle at that.
The Progressives’ “musket argument” – invariably perceived by the
person regurgitating it as a brilliant observation all their own – is an absurd canard.
The framers certainly did indeed anticipate technological advances,
not just in firearms but all types of useful items which is why they
provided a means to develop a patent system in the U.S. Constitution
itself. See, e.g. U.S. Constitution, Art I, Section 8, cl. 8.
The First Amendment to the Constitution, which protects the Free
speech and press rights Progressives so loudly claim to value dearly was
adopted simultaneously with the Second Amendment and all the others too
of course. At the time of it’s adoption, the means of exercising First
Amendment rights were mainly limited to the Soap Box and one’s own
voice, the quill pen and the printing press. Today, well more than 200
hundred years later, that same amendment also protects content expressed
in: photographs, film, musical and voice recordings, electronic media,
television, radio and the internet. God willing it will do so for as
long as our awesome Republic survives.
Under Mr. Breathless's logic, it seems we should limit First Amendment protection to content expressed only through means available at the time of the Amendment's adoption, RIGHT JIM HIMES?
UPDATE: Well, someone in Washingtoon stopped by for a long visit:
That you Jim? Please, feel free to leave a comment, I support the First Amendment here.
UPDATE: Well, someone in Washingtoon stopped by for a long visit:
That you Jim? Please, feel free to leave a comment, I support the First Amendment here.
None of those histrionic arguments of the "progressive left" make any more sense than the crap coming out of North Korea. It's chatter and babble that goes on to make them feel good about themselves but it is divorced from reality -- and from the law of the land.
ReplyDeleteOnce you start to water down the Bill of Rights, you're on a very slippery slope.