On Friday, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), bonehead extraordinaire, claimed on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that the Supreme Court striking down a ban on bump stocks is like flying the National Rifle [NRA] Association flag “way above the Constitution and the public safety.”
He would believe this because he’s more than likely never read the US Constitution or the Second Amendment. And if he has, then he vehemently disagrees, as is evident by his very words during the interview. A bump stock ban is called an infringement on citizens’ right to defend themselves.
Here is what the Second Amendment actually says.
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.
In my mind, that means that the federal government cannot even hold a conversation on gun control.
Raskin stated, “It was outrageous, of course. It was not just Justice Sotomayor who said that this bird quacks like a duck and walked like a duck, it was the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms [ATF]. So it was the governing agency which said that a semiautomatic weapon equipped with a bump stock operates exactly like a machine gun and should be treated that way.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELLefties cannot wrap their heads around the fact that the ruling isn’t about the use of bump stocks, but an infringement on the Second Amendment. Like small children, they want what they want, and they want it now!
He went on to say, “Of course it was in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, where 58 people were destroyed and more than 500 wounded, fundamentally altering the lives of hundreds of people and snuffing out the lives of 58 of them. Trump, at that point, pretended at least to support that action as a substitute for universal, violent criminal background checks and for a complete ban on military-style assault weapons. Now they get the justices he brags about putting on the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and they also strike this down.”
The phrasing he uses is typical of any radical leftist. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with the Vegas shooter, Roe v Wade, or universal background checks, which I hold to be unconstitutional. Notice the use of the term “military-style assault weapons.” Raskin used the term “military-style” to conjure up images of war and to make the listener think that only soldiers should be allowed to use rifles. The term “assault weapon” is used, again, to conjure up an image of someone harming another person by assaulting them. The gun grabbers used to use the term “automatic weapons” until it was pointed out to them that automatic weapons have been banned in the United States since the 1930s.
Raskin continued, “The Flag of America they fly upside down. The flag of the NRA they fly right-side up, and they fly it very high. Way above the rule of law, way above the Constitution, and the public safety of the people.”
This lunatic from Maryland accused the Supreme Court of flying an upside down flag, while he is referring to the story that Justice Alito had an inverted flag at his home around the time that Joe Biden was inaugurated. An inverted flag means distress. The justice pointed out that it was his wife who inverted the flag due to a dispute she had with the neighbors. And it doesn’t matter, anyway. Being a Supreme Court justice does not mean you can’t fly a flag however you want.
Here is what Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the opinion of the 6-3 ruling in Garland v. Cargill:
“Congress has long restricted access to ‘machinegun[s]’, a category of firearms defined by the ability to ‘shoot, automatically more than one shot … by a single function of the trigger.’ Semiautomatic firearms, which require shooters to reengage the trigger for every shot, are not machineguns. This case asks whether a bump stock — an accessory for a semi-automatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger (and therefore achieve a high rate of fire) — converts the rifle into a ‘machinegun.’ We hold that it does not and therefore affirm.”
One thing to keep in mind. The lefties on the court would take away your Second Amendment rights at the drop of a hat. This is why Raskin, AOC, and other radical leftists have been attacking the Supreme Court, specifically Justices Thomas and Alito, who are the two strongest originalists on the high court. The Left doesn’t like the Constitution because it places limits on what the federal government can do. Democrats are used to using activist judges on courts to get them what they couldn’t get legislatively.
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