Warning: Rob’s Rant is purely the work of my loving husband. I may or may not agree with said rant. That said, from time-to-time, Rob get’s a hankering to see his words on this blog. I give to you…Rob’s Rant.
I’ve heard joyous cheers throughout the freedom loving world today. And while I don’t share the unbridled enthusiasm of the many, I do feel damn good. DAMN GOOD!
Ok, why not great? Scalia left a little loop hole that I didn’t like, he said that DC must permit citizens to register handguns. Register? Really? Do I need to register my pen, my voice, my Bible?
If you have no clue what I’m talking about, I’m sorry for you. It’s better if you just go back to watching Hogan Knows Best and leave this to the adults. And for anyone out there who’s ever entertained the idea that it was a collective or militia right?…you can kiss my fat white ass. Smug? Yep, super-smug. Smug like I just won an argument that the sun sets in the west.
Rant Off…deep breath…Happy, Happy…Joy, Joy
Heller is the name, kicking liberal ass is the game. In DC v Heller, the defendant argued that the Washington DC gun ban was unconstitutional. The ban being; no pistols were allowed and all other firearms must be locked up or disassembled. The attorney for DC claimed that the 2nd Amendment was a collective right, a long standing staple of the gun-ban crowd. Basically they think that the prefatory clause “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state” means that the right is granted only to regulated militia units under control of the state. Not so says the court, in a 72 page opinion Justice Scalia artfully quashes every attempt at dissent.
The SCOTUS affirmed that it is an individual right, that banning entire classes of firearms is unconstitutional, that requiring guns to be locked up or disassembled is unconstitutional and that the right exists for “legal purposes such as personal defense.” Personal defense baby. Personal defense from the guy breaking down your door or from the government breaking down your door. None of this namby-pamby “sporting purpose” hunting, target-shooting bullshit. Although I do love hunting an target shooting.
What’s it all really mean? First of all, the folks in DC can unlock their rifles and shotguns, and they can now own pistols. They can legally defend themselves in their own homes, who’d a thunk it? The people in Chicago and the suburbs will be seeing the light of day soon. Several lawsuits attacking those gun bans have been filed already. And courts like the 9th Circus…err Circuit, will no longer be allowed to run slip shard over the Constitution.
For the rest of us, even here in the Republic of South Chicago, not much will change. That’s good because, it’s now harder for the gun-ban freaks to change things. Those goof balls are on their heals today. I just got my daily newsletter from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Yes I get the libtard news letters, I even watch the Lauer in the morning. You gotta keep track of the loonies otherwise they’ll rule the ward.
Anyway I digress, Brady, the newsletter was titled “The Supreme Court Rules, Any Gun, Any Time for Any One”. So, they want people to think that the Court is arming criminals and the insane with machine guns, when the opinion clearly states that felons and the mentally ill are disqualified and the restrictions on machine guns are constitutional. Scare tactics 101, they got caught in a lie and tried to change the subject by saying that the sky is falling, which is another lie. Daily in Chicago said that striking down the cities gun ban would be like throwing out the legal system and reverting to wild west justice where disputes are settled by gunfights in the street-his words not mine. CNN had low angle shots from gun shows and spouted words like automatic, magnum and high capacity. The fear mongers are like chickens with their heads cut off. I can’t even muster my normal distain for these antics, I’m having too much fun watching the show.
I spent a little time yesterday, after the decision, lurking on the liberal web sites like Democrat Underground. You know, gotta keep track of the loonies. Well, spank my ass and call me sunshine, but those guys loved the decision. Not all of them of course but the majority of opinions was very positive. This just goes to show that a very small and very vocal minority wants to tell the rest of us how to live. These are the lemmings who think that the government is there to take care of us, give us free health care, food stamps and send the police when the bad guys come out. Guess what? When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
I’m going to leave you all with something that past generations took for granted but seem to be lost on a good portion of the current population. The Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution does not grant us anything. We have those rights because we are citizens of the greatest country to every grace this planet. Think of it this way, the Amendments don’t allow anything, they prohibit the government from taking those rights away. The Constitution is not law that we must follow, it’s law that the government must follow. It’s like a line from a little letter that was sent to the King of England on July 4th 1776, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Have a very happy and safe Independence Day.
Molon Labe
Rob
