wrong with no defense
watch the mises.org fools get spanked. watch the mises.org fools have no rebuttal to their spanking:
[...] It’s certainly tempting to say the states should be bound by the second amendment. But the language was clearly written to limit the federal government. [...]
mark:
Oliva claims “the language [of the Second Amendment] was clearly written to limit the federal government.” Is he reading the same Second Amendment I have in my copy of the Constitution? The First Amendment begins “Congress shall pass no law…”. Clearly, the First Amendment was intended to limit the power of the Federal government. The Second Amendment never limits its restrictions to Congress. [...]
S oliva:
“[T]he Constitution is the highest law of the land, and in the case of the Second Amendment, it recognizes a natural right of the people and protects the people from any infringement of that right by any level of government.”So you’re arguing the second amendment is an affirmative grant of power to the federal government that allows it to overrule the acts of state and local governments? I don’t see how the text can be read that way.
“The essense of the second amendment is the retention of the right of the people, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, to overthrow by force a government that has exceeded it’s mandate and become tyrannical. It doesn’t distinguish between states and the federal government in this regard.”
Except that it’s an amendment to a *federal* constitution. I find it difficult to argue that the adopters of the amendment — which included the state legislatures that ratified it — intended it to apply to state acts, given the lack of express language.
I thank both commenters for their insights.
“lack of express language”? try the supremacy clause. along comes jeff “light in the loafers” asshole tucker to “elucidate” with his usual faerie dust horse shit saying nothing:
Oliva is exactly right: the Bill of Rights was to pertain to the federal government, not the state governments. I don’t see how anyone can doubt this as a matter of intention and history. This principle was distorted in the 20th century in order to make room for the building of Leviathan: the whole principle of federalism was turned on its head. I’m not Constitution fan (the federalists were all liars, so far as I’m concerned) and I only dabble in constitutional history but I do know that there is nothing about the Bill of Rights, which was imposed on the bad guys whom the moderates did not trust, that was supposed to give the central state extra power over lower orders of government.
try the 10th amendment, dumbass from hell. it states explicitly that the states may by the constitution be prohibited powers.
fuck mises.org, some of the biggest wrong posers on the internet — so long stewing in their precious dogma that they can’t see truth.