President Joe Biden laid the customary wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier during Memorial Day activities held May 29 at Arlington National Cemetery. He also said the “Second Amendment was never absolute” and that, after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.
“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody’s getting more rational, at least that’s my hope,” Biden told reporters before honoring the nation’s fallen in Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Biden is setting a dangerous precedent when making those remarks as a recently leaked brief related to Abortion Rights consistently references the difference between “unwritten” rights that are at the core of the fabric of the country, which includes the right to bear arms, as opposed to rights guaranteed to states under the 10th Amendment to govern themselves.
In the same vein that the Supreme Court will leave abortion rights to the States, so should gun laws, whether the masses agree or not. On the other hand, the federal government must intervene in immigration rights as those rights pre-date the Constitution.
Firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S. in 2020, surpassing deaths by car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer, according to research published last month in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution should be absolute and just as the Supreme Court allows for democracy to prevail, voters have to start voting for representatives who speak to the values they believe in.
The fact is no 18 year old should be legally allowed to purchase high powered assault weapons taking into account experts say our brain isn’t fully developed until we are 25.
“The average age of suspects at school mass shootings is 18,” said Nancy Cordes during a press conference held at the White House days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated Biden’s position is he too doesn’t believe 18 year olds should be legally allowed to purchase assault weapons but again that is up to the State.
The fact of the matter is mass shootings aren’t taking place with handguns or hunting rifles. They are taking place with people using high powered assault rifles which shouldn’t be readily available to mentally distressed teens.
If Biden continues to press too hard for a national mandate on the matter, he opens the door for other portions of the Constitution to be altered as well.
Specifically the 15th Amendment which guarantees rights to Black people.
Joe Biden has already done an about face on many of the campaign statements he made in order to garner the Black vote.
When you start tinkering with that document it opens up unintended consequences the public may not be ready for.
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A military rifle will have a selector lever for a single shot, or a 3 round burst, or fully auto which means the gun fires until you let off the trigger. Those type of guns are not at your local gun store. High power is a relative term. No one seams to notice 28 people die every day by drunk drivers not to mention injury. I wonder if the Ukraine people wish they had guns when the Russian soldiers came into there house to rape and kill their kids and daughters. Dont think it couldnt happen in the USA DC P
Poor analysis.
The leading cause of deaths from guns is being involved in criminal activity, and stop counting 18 & 19 year olds as children.
Uh – the Second Amendment means adults have the right bear arms. 18 is considered an adult There is no such thing as an assault weapons. Assault Rifles are fully automatic like machine gun and VERY highly regulated. .IMHO opinion two urban girls are two dumb girls.
Is there really someone out there that believes that members of minority groups are going to lose their rights in this country? It is the most dishonest and disgusting argument I’ve seen in a long time.
Also, should we quit allowing folks under the age of 25 to enter the military, vote, drive, drink, use tobacco, sign contracts, have bank accounts, take out loans, or pay taxes? I mean… they are unable to make an informed decision since their brain is not fully formed. What an absolutely awful argument. If you apply the same logic to ‘everything’ then it does not work. It’s just like other issues that many politicians and activists speak about; they look at an issue that needs to be addressed, but they never acknowledge the many downstream issues that will likely arise due to their proposed solutions.
My primary takeaway is that some idiot out there (the author) purports to believe that most of the country hates black people and other minorities. BS. Only one party is advocating the deaths of hundreds of thousands of black folks each year and I would put a large chunk of money on the fact that the author votes for them at every opportunity.
You say the brain is not fully developed till 25 but at ages 4-6 a child can decide gender???? This kid was trans but he is really considered confused and mentally ill.. Please also do your research as he was broke but had $1200 phone , $3000 in guns / $2000 in body armor so please understand this is a gun grab and you dont want to be like AU…
Reports say the gun store let him finance the purchase.
The DD AR-15 was a $2,000 gun and it was paid for in full.
So much information coming out i Julia the missed the correction.
Keith A Struzmyska says, “Please also do your research…” but hasn’t done any himself. If he had, he would know that people don’t “decide gender” (although a 6 yr old can certainly be aware of what their gender is); and he would know that the shooter in TX was not trans. I have a $1200 phone for free (thanks, T-Mobile), and I could get $3000 in guns today for the down-payment price of a pair of movie tickets, so I don’t see what point you are struggling to make.
As for AU, I absolutely DO want our mass shooting per capita statistics to be like AU’s.
Today, people decide gender. It’s a provably man-made fad. The more victim-points and mental issues one has, the more gravitas they have in their social media bubble. We used to heap praise on the strong, but now weakness and uselessness is cool. If someone can convince their children to take hormones or chop off body parts then they can post it on social media and all the crazies cheer them on for their brave support of child butchery. They do not do it for the benefit of the children, but for their own aggrandization. Our lives have become far too easy and it leads folks like you to invent problems in order to feel any struggle at all.
A WELL REGULATED Militia, being NECESSARY to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. That one sentence is your second amendment. Any kind of regulation need to be installed by order of the second amendment.
This may be the worst opinion essay I’ve ever read. It’s wrong on the facts, and I can’t tell what it’s advocating. I’ll restrict myself to two observations, though there are more. It says that the right to bear arms is an “unwritten” right like abortion, when it’s not, it’s in the Second Amendment. It says that rights guaranteed in the Constitution should be absolute, but there’s no such thing as an absolute right — libel and slander limit the rights to speech and the press, for example. The best I can tell, the authors want the courts to leave gun laws to the states and for us to elect better state legislators who will prohibit gun ownership for young adults. But IF that’s what they were trying to say (and it’s a nonsensical position), they made a mess trying to say it.
Campaign finance laws interfere with the ability to elect the “best” representatives. The issue dates back to William Taft.
“The fact is no 18 year old should be legally allowed to purchase high powered assault weapons taking into account experts say our brain isn’t fully developed until we are 25.”
Even more critically, perhaps, would it not be wise to forego the right to vote until age 25 when the brain is fully developed?
The fact is … the 2nd Amendment does not guarantee the right to bear arms for all citizens arbitrarily or indiscriminately devoid of oversight … rather it guarantees that right to those who would comprise a “well regulated” militia. Amazes me how little people can comprehend simple English.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Wrong. Read Heller vs. DC decision by the Supreme Court which affirmed the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms is separate from the militia clause.
“Well-regulated” does not mean “limited” as it would in our modern legal reading. – Me
“The phrase “well-regulated” was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people’s arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.” – constitution.org
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
1709: “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations.”
1714: “The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world.”
1812: “The equation of time … is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial.”
1848: “A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor.”
1862: “It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding.”
1894: “The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city.”
,,and a militia is made up of private citizens, so that’s fairly simple.