Alan Gura And Alan Gottlieb On McDonald v. Chicago

Wouldn’t it be fascinating to read the Founders notes during the 1787-1792 period which is the Origin period of the Second Amendment, being implemented into the Bill of Rights, in order to understand how they envisioned the 1868 14th Roman Communist Red Amendment, and how that Amendment would further strengthen their Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.. How they envisioned their enemy of the their day would later become our trusted friends. Funny, in all my studies I missed those notes by the founders advising us about our friends of the future, somehow I must have confused advised with warning, and friends, with enemies..

“Bid us and our posterity bow the knee…to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!” —- Sam Adams.

” If the liberties of America are ever compleatly ruined, of which in my opinion there is the utmost danger, it will in all probability be the consequence of a mistaken notion of PRUDENCE, which leads men to acquiesce in measures of the most destructive tendency for the sake of present ease. When designs are forme’d to rase the very foundation of a free government, those few who to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the for-runner of slavery, They are alarmed at nothing so much, as attempts to awaken the people to Jealousy and watchfulness; and it has been an old game played over and over again, to hold up the men who would rouse their fellow citizens and countrymen to a sense of their real danger, and spirit them to the most zealous activity in the use of all proper means for the preservation of the public liberty, as pretended patriots, intemperate politicians, rash, hotheaded men, Incindiaries, wretched desperados. who as was said of the best of men, would turn the world upside down, or have done it already.” —-Sam Adams

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS YOU STUPID MORONS.

I am continually amazed at the “assumptions” (or perhaps manipulations) by legal “experts” in what they seem to think was on the minds of the founding fathers back during founding days.

Gura alluded to this in his talk and I wondered if anyone (I knew Greg would) would pick up on it. Gura said that the 14th Amendment was necessary to insure the rights of the Second Amendment to all the people. I never bought into that premise and still don’t.

James Madison is credited as being the writer of the U.S. Constitution…..whatever. People don’t realize that one, Madison was mentored by Thomas Jefferson. At the time of the writing of the Constitution, Jefferson and Madison fought quite hard back and forth with each other over the Bill of Rights. Two, Madison wanted them included with the original passage of the Constitution and Jefferson saw no need for them at all.

Jefferson believed that every man understood, that our rights were not granted to us by any document, leader or government, but by God himself.

Regardless, the original Bill of Rights came after the signing of the Constitution and because of those written Bill of Rights, man has twisted, spun, manipulated, ignored, lied, cheated and stole to alter them, add to them and delete them in order to fulfill their own selfish agendas, much of which included the search for power and control over the people….spelled out as loss of liberty.

It is my opinion that this ruling, assuming the SCOTUS will incorporate the Second Amendment into the Fourteenth, will come back and haunt every last one of us. It is the Fourteenth Amendment that usurps the power from the states and grants it unto the Federal Government. Those states at present, working so hard to breathe life back into the Tenth Amendment may regret this ruling, although it is probably too late anyway.

Being all agog to have SCOTUS rule that the Second Amendment is good only because of the Fourteenth, should never have been allowed to happen and as such, now the federal government can force the states rights as they see fit. All rights determined by “Due Process”, spelled out as government control.

I know I am in the minority in this opinion and have been told by several “experts” of the law, that this is a good thing and it strengthens the power and sovereignty of the states over the Federal Government. In my mind, I think I am just too negative a thinker, but in my skepticism and complete distrust of government, I just cannot see it.

Time will tell.