Lefty Russ Baker says it’s time to get rid of America’s guns. And that pesky Second Amendment isn’t a problem. If he’s trying to climb out of his recent obscurity, he didn’t think it through. His solution?
Just ignore it.
Why Nearly All of America’s 400 Million Guns Have Got To Go
Everyone already knows all the reasons “nothing will be done.” Congress, as currently constituted, will not pass meaningful legislation. We need a better Congress. Courts are more interested in protecting the dubiously cited Second Amendment than in protecting kids. We need better judges and better law.
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So I would say that the rest of us need to stop mollifying them. Forget all that nonsense about the Second Amendment.
Just forget it. After all…
Obviously it won’t be easy, and a small number of Second Amendment hard-liners will resist violently
Only a few will resist. Of course, that’s “only a few” of more than one hundred million people. Based on surveys I’ve seen for the past few years, more like 120 million. Russ’ stormtroopers will be in trouble if even 5% of 120 million “resist violently.” Six millions HANSOBs would make quick work of them, despite Baker’s irrational belief otherwise.
None will actually defend us against our military or other militaries. Guns in the hands of untrained, unvetted, potentially irresponsible users do much more harm than good. Period.
Tell it to the Taliban. Or the four terrorists who tied up 90,000 police and troops for days.
Untrained? He might note the large number of gun-owning military veterans. Or the competetion in the field of firearms training classes. Or the millions of concealed carry licensees, which is several states requires training.
The boy is delusional.
But note his disdain for the courts upholding that stupid 2A. Where have we seen that before?
Occasionally-firing-Cortex, demanding that the Xiden administration just ignore court decisions that she’s dislikes.
The current “Campaign to Delegitimize the U.S. Supreme Court” with dubious ethics complaints, and again, calls to ignore rulings.
I do see that Baker does like one — former — Justice’s “opinion” on the 2A.
Even conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger said the argument that it referred to individual gun ownership (and not the clearly stated “well-regulated militia” being necessary to “the security of a free State”) was a misrepresentation of the Constitution, law, and history.
I love how these anti-rights types trot out that Parade magazine opinion from an elderly retiree. If Burger truly thought that the 2A was being misinterpreted…
why didn’t he use his position as Chief Justice to espouse it, instead of waiting until retirement to write an opinion column not subject to Associate Justice ridicule and judicial dissent?
I’ll see Baker’s 30-something year-old magazine opinion, and raise him four real SCOTUS decisions: HELLER, MCDONALD, CAETANO, and BRUEN. That’s on top of MILLER, CRUIKSHANK, PRESSER, and even DRED SCOTT, all prior to Burger’s little adventure in post-retirement attention-seeking.
Baker had better hope that the Courts don’t get disavowed. The little remaining confidence in the courts is the only thing standing between himself, and his doorkickers, and six to twelve million heavily armed, non-compliant SOBs.
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I am not a bean counter, but if I were a getting man, I would be willing to gamble a large amount of my money on the fact of a lot more than 6-12 million non compliant gun owners ready to practice with some of the ammo that they have sitting in the corner, waiting for just such an occasion.
They used to call the middle class people like myself the silent majority. We worked hard, paid out bills, watched our kids play sports and their band concerts, and drove them home after play practices.
The government made us mad at times, but for the most part they left us alone and stayed out of our lives. But now, over the past 30-40 years, that has all changed, and the government on both sides of the aisle think that we work for them, and that they tell us what to do. Suddenly the silent majority is not as willing to stand by while the government takes what they have worked a lifetime for, just to give it to someone who either won’t work, or who has never lived in America, or contributed to it, in order to secure votes come election time.
If the government thinks that most of them will just sit still and let them take their guns, I believe they will be mistaken.
Regarding the last paragraph:
“Baker had better hope that the Courts don’t get disavowed. The little remaining confidence in the courts is the only thing standing between himself, and his doorkickers, and six to twelve million heavily armed, non-compliant SOBs.”
I offer this:
“So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
Stay safe