If you're going to argue we can restrict Second Amendment rights because urban communities can't handle having guns in the way "rural Vermont" can, then why wouldn't it also follow we can't do the same with every right?
Warrantless searches wouldn't reduce much crime in most rural areas, but they'd do a lot in cities!
Literacy is dismal in Chicago. Why are we letting its residents vote without a literacy test?
And so on.
Rights are universal. If your area isn't mature enough to handle that liberty, then the response should be fixing your community's failings, not attacking the liberty.
This isn't a new problem. John Adams wrote that
"We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Let me fix the tweet for you while it still being 100% accurate:
“If you're going to argue we can restrict Second Amendment rights because [blacks] can't handle having guns in the way [whites] can, then why wouldn't it also follow we can't do the same with every right?
Warrantless searches wouldn't reduce much crime in most [white] areas, but they'd do a lot in [blacks areas]!
Literacy is dismal in [black communities]. Why are we letting [blacks] vote without a literacy test?
And so on.
Rights are universal. If [blacks aren’t] mature enough to handle that liberty, then the response should be [repealing the 14A and restoring the Founder’s original vision of the Constitution where it didn’t apply to blacks], not attacking [whites].”
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I am pleased to be representing Eva Gardner before the United States Supreme Court along with my colleague John Ohlendorf. Here is an excerpt from the intro to the reply brief we have filed in support of the Court taking the case:
While Petitioner was traveling through Maryland from her home in Virginia to visit her mother in Pennsylvania, she was forced off the road by what she believed was a police-type maneuver. When the other driver got out of his car and approached Petitioner in a way she perceived as threatening, she “was terrified” and responded by engaging in a common, effective, and non-lethal self-defense measure: simply displaying the firearm that she was licensed by Virginia to carry and that she had brought with her on her journey for self-protection. It is difficult to imagine conduct that falls more squarely within both the Second Amendment’s “plain text” and America’s tradition of legitimate “armed self-defense.” New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 24, 29 (2022). Yet Maryland responded to this incident by convicting Petitioner—not for behaving inappropriately in any way during the encounter, but solely for bringing her firearm with her for her protection as she traveled along Maryland’s interstate highways.
BREAKING - Virginia voters are shocked to find out that Virginia Democrats are voting to exempt themselves from the new gun control measures they are imposing.
“The provision of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly.”
We warned you and warned you.
🚨VIDEO: Voting integrity activist Scott Pressler confronts Bucks County to their faces on their brazen breaking of election laws there to try to influence the election.
Scott has asked that we all share this video everywhere in social media to be seen by millions to expose Bucks County illegal actions and encourage the politicians in DC to pass the SAVE ACT.
“We were told to label newly arrived ILLEGALS as ‘long-term disabled’ — even for headaches or back pain — so they’d get Social Security for LIFE.”
“Once they’re classified, that’s it — they’re set FOREVER. That’s exactly what we were told to do.”
This is so infuriating! We are being ripped off my our own government. We've got to stop this rampent corruption or we are going to lose our children's future.
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Legislators in West Virginia just introduced a GOA-drafted bill to sell transferrable, post-86 ban machineguns to law-abiding citizens.
Transfers under SB 1071 would be legal under federal law—including the National Firearms Act of 1934 & the Hughes Amendment.
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Slavery had been the norm throughout all of history, for thousands of years, impacting all people, including millions of Europeans enslaved in the Ottoman Empire - which had institutionalized the sexual slavery of European women. Yet children are led to believe that slavery was a uniquely American activity.
Now why do you think that is?