Dixie - In Memoriam
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This week, the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to deny Americans their 2nd Amendment rights. You would think such a vote would be unanimous, since the court is supposed to determine constitutionality, and denying 2nd Amendment rights would clearly not be constitutional. But, the vote was 5-4, with Anthony Kennedy providing the decisive vote.
This is how far to the left we have slid. We are dangerously close to having a court majority who feel they can literally re-write our constitution, through re-interpretations, which means none of our rights are sacred or guaranteed. There was nothing ambiguous about the positions of our Founding Fathers on the issue of the right to bear arms. Every single one of them, felt this was a fundamental right for Americans, and supposedly insured it by making it the 2nd Amendment, just behind our freedom of religion and speech.
Opponents of the 2nd will often say "times have changed" and this is their main argument of support for their position. Well, times have changed, we do live in a more violent and dangerous time, but that seems to lend even more strength to the importance OF the 2nd Amendment! Why would MORE danger and violence, diminish the right to bear arms? It makes absolutely no sense at all. Yes, we need to be diligent in knowing who we sell arms to, and we should scrutinize individuals who want to purchase arms, but there should never be a question of our fundamental right to bear arms.
So why did we have an unusually close vote on such an obvious issue? Because our Supreme Court has 4 members who shouldn't be on the court at all, and should probably be advocating socialist communism in Russia instead. I don't really care who appointed them, I know this is the first knee-jerk response I will get from pinheads... "so-and-so was appointed by a republican!" It doesn't matter who appointed the bad judges! We are at a precarious point, where a single SCOTUS appointment could fundamentally change our nation! Perhaps this is the illusive "CHANGE" we keep hearing about from Obama?
There are several important issues in the upcoming elections, but I think the most overlooked and important issue, is the Supreme Court appointments. The next president will likely have several. The question at hand is, what kind of America do you want? The America which stands on the fundamental principles of the Founding Fathers, as it has for over 200 years? Or, some Euro-Socialist amalgamation of liberal eliteness and reform? Do we support the premise that 'We The People' have the power to amend and change our constitution with the times, or do we want to give this power to men in black robes to decide through re-interpreting the constitution to fit their agenda?
It seems like such a simple and obvious choice, but then again, so did this week's SC decision on the constitutionality of the 2nd Amendment!
This is how far to the left we have slid. We are dangerously close to having a court majority who feel they can literally re-write our constitution, through re-interpretations, which means none of our rights are sacred or guaranteed. There was nothing ambiguous about the positions of our Founding Fathers on the issue of the right to bear arms. Every single one of them, felt this was a fundamental right for Americans, and supposedly insured it by making it the 2nd Amendment, just behind our freedom of religion and speech.
Opponents of the 2nd will often say "times have changed" and this is their main argument of support for their position. Well, times have changed, we do live in a more violent and dangerous time, but that seems to lend even more strength to the importance OF the 2nd Amendment! Why would MORE danger and violence, diminish the right to bear arms? It makes absolutely no sense at all. Yes, we need to be diligent in knowing who we sell arms to, and we should scrutinize individuals who want to purchase arms, but there should never be a question of our fundamental right to bear arms.
So why did we have an unusually close vote on such an obvious issue? Because our Supreme Court has 4 members who shouldn't be on the court at all, and should probably be advocating socialist communism in Russia instead. I don't really care who appointed them, I know this is the first knee-jerk response I will get from pinheads... "so-and-so was appointed by a republican!" It doesn't matter who appointed the bad judges! We are at a precarious point, where a single SCOTUS appointment could fundamentally change our nation! Perhaps this is the illusive "CHANGE" we keep hearing about from Obama?
There are several important issues in the upcoming elections, but I think the most overlooked and important issue, is the Supreme Court appointments. The next president will likely have several. The question at hand is, what kind of America do you want? The America which stands on the fundamental principles of the Founding Fathers, as it has for over 200 years? Or, some Euro-Socialist amalgamation of liberal eliteness and reform? Do we support the premise that 'We The People' have the power to amend and change our constitution with the times, or do we want to give this power to men in black robes to decide through re-interpreting the constitution to fit their agenda?
It seems like such a simple and obvious choice, but then again, so did this week's SC decision on the constitutionality of the 2nd Amendment!
