New Member of Congress, Second Amendment supporter, and Open Carrier, Lauren Boebert, refuses to back down from the Deep State in Washington D.C. She is going to exercise her Second Amendment rights in D.C. and the Capitol. Now, as a member of the favored few, in Congress, she has rights and privileges most of us do not. She is using her status to fight for the rest of the country, and the Constitution.
Because she is willingly to openly exercise her Second Amendment rights, with strong, protected, symbolic speech, Democrat members of the House are working to eliminate those rights. From foxnews.com:
"The Democrats are always up for stripping away our Constitutional rights and feel threatened when we simply want to exercise those rights," Boebert told Fox News Wednesday. "I carry a firearm to protect myself and want to exercise my right to do so in one of the most dangerous cities in America. They want to take that right away from me. I look forward to helping make sure they can't."
Those members of Congress were perfectly willing to allow members of Congress to have the right to keep and bear arms, as long as it was on the "low down", in the closet, lest the public get the idea the Second Amendment actually meant something. But now that photogenic and principled Representative Boebert refuses to stay in the Second Amendment closet, that is not allowed.
The Orwellian statement of Representative Huffman is a good place to start. From Representative Jared Huffman, (D) California:
Threats of political violence are on the rise, and it makes all of us less safe if Members of Congress don’t have to comply with gun safety standards. I led my colleagues in a call to modernize the House’s outdated & dangerous rules for everyone’s safety.
Notice Huffman, in his statement, calls for generic and mild sounding "gun safety standards". The statement is about the letter he promoted, and signed with 20 other Democrat House Members. The particulars are clear. The letter calls for a complete ban of guns.
There is no error: Huffman equates "gun safety standards" with a complete gun ban. From the letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader, bold added:
Ultimately, the current regulations create needless risk for Members of Congress, their staff, members of the Capitol Police, and visitors to the Capitol grounds. A provision in the Rules package directing the Capitol Police Board to ensure that Member of Congress may not possess firearms on Capitol grounds would ensure clarity surrounding firearms policy and protect all individuals in and around the Capitol. We urge inclusion of this commonsense protection in the 117th Congress.
This is the simplistic, emotional, and fact free phobia of gun hatred. A former essay on this subject is linked here. It is, simply, Guns are Bad. It is an irrational fear. It is a mental condition. It is dangerous, to allow people with this sort of mental illness to be in a position of power in Congress.
It makes you wonder why these Democrats do not call for taking away the guns from the Capitol Police.
Nanette Barragan, District 44, California (Los Angeles)
Donald S. Beyer, Jr., District 8, Virginia (Alexandria, half inside the beltway at D.C.)
Salud Carbajal, District 24, California (Los Angeles along coast to North)
Andre Carson, District 7 Indiana (Indianapolis)
Sean Casten, District 6, Illinois (West Chicago suburbs)
David Cicilline, District 1, Rhode Island
Veronica Escobar, District 16, Texas (El Paso)
Raul Grijalva, Arizona, District 3, (highly gerrymandered, Tucson, Phoenix, Yuma)
Jahana Hayes, Connecticut, District 5
Jared Huffman, California, District 2, (San Francisco)
Pramila Jayapal, Washington State, District 7, (Seattle)
Daniel T. Kildee, Michigan, District 5
Robin Kelly, District 2, Illinois (Chicago)
Grace Meng, District 6, New York, (New York)
Eleanor Norton, District of Columbia, non-voting
David Price, District 4, North Carolina, (Durham)
Mike Quigley, District 5, Illinois, (Chicago)
Jan Schakowsky, Distrct 9, Illinois, (Chicago metroplex)
Mark Takano, District 41, California, (Riverside)
It is painful for this correspondent to notice Raul Grijalva from Arizona is one of those listed. Raul is a disgrace to the state. He is in a safe district. Perhaps some Arizona citizens will read this and realize their rights will always be in danger while he is in public office. Fortunately, he does not seem to be very energetic.
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My kind of woman. The reason behind the second Amendment is a framers threat to the government it was creating with the constitution. The 26b words in the second amendment were as succinct as the English language would permit It was worded to let the government know the citizens are the boss. They work for us and when they get too controlling we can remover or replace them and we have the power by the rights of the second amendment. There is no constitutional authority for government to add words to the second amendment. The framers had just thrown off a tyrannical government. all of the acts passed by congress to limit the second amendment are unconstitutional. They are infringements by definition.
ReplyDeleteAs Jayapal is a disgrace to those of us in Eastern Washington.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the Antifa loving Pugetopians think she's great, though.