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'Protected class' denies guns to others
Josey1
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'Protected class' denies guns to others
Posted: May 10, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
c 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
It's no secret that members of the protected political class in America are often afforded special rights and privileges that, in theory, all of us are "guaranteed" but seldom can utilize to their fullest.
One of those privileges is the right to walk around without fear of being killed by an armed criminal.
That's because members of the protected political class ? lawmakers, policymakers and federal officials ? either have 24-7 armed protection provided them, or they are "allowed" to carry their own weapons for their own defense.
The vast majority of Americans are not so lucky. Their Second Amendment rights are meted out to them in small, controlled doses by the protected class.
Granted, with 43 states having passed some sort of "concealed carry" law, "permitting" the unwashed masses to partially utilize their right to bear arms ? supposedly a right guaranteed by the Constitution ? most citizens, if they choose, can pack a gun.
Well, only certain kinds of guns. And they can't be packed everywhere.
Only the protected class gets to pack their guns wherever they go ? to church, in the liquor store, in bars, in schools, in shopping malls, in public and government buildings, and even on commercial flights.
You must understand, however, that not all of the protected class agrees that the unwashed masses should be "allowed" to utilize what was supposed to be a guaranteed right to be armed.
For example, in my home state of Missouri, Democrat Gov. Bob Holden has said he doesn't trust the unwashed masses with their Second Amendment right. He has vowed to veto a concealed-carry bill that has already passed the legislature by a 2-1 margin.
Holden, mind you, has 24-7 armed protection, compliments of a team of special Missouri Highway Patrol officers. That protection is funded by the very taxpayers he won't "allow" to carry a gun for their own protection.
The protected class will go out of its way to formulate a legal opinion defying logic to ensure a child pornographer has his First Amendment "right" to generate and distribute disgusting smut. These same jokers, however, will perform legal gymnastics to "explain" why law-abiding, taxpaying American citizens can't utilize their Second Amendment right to self-protection.
One reader recently submitted what I believe is a reasonable request after I wrote a story detailing why the government is refusing to arm airline pilots. He said at a minimum, the protected class should be offered the same "non-lethal weaponry" being offered to pilots.
"If such non-lethal means are adequate for the nation's pilots and those they are charged with protecting, should they not also be adequate for the nation's leaders? How about the federal government's law enforcement officers?" he wrote.
Point well-made. The protected class will allow an armed federal marshal aboard flights, but not military veteran pilots with as much weapons training and responsibility.
One group that recognizes the hypocrisy and fear of the protected class is Citizens of America. For years now this group has managed to get a number of media outlets from print to radio to Internet to run pro-gun ads designed to tug at your heartstrings as well as your sense of fair play and common sense.
Brian Puckett, head of the group, says he's making progress. And as if to underscore that progress, Solicitor General Theodore Olson on Tuesday conveyed to the U.S. Supreme Court the Bush administration's view that, yes indeed, the Second Amendment "more broadly protects the rights of individuals."
Puckett also says more needs to be done. I agree. In the same filings this week, Olson also said the Justice Department believes the Second Amendment is "subject to reasonable restrictions designed to prevent possession by unfit persons or to restrict the possession of types of firearms that are particularly suited to criminal misuse."
It's those "reasonable restrictions," however, that are getting innumerable Americans killed each year. Many in the protected class still prohibit the carrying of a gun for most people to many places they want to go.
If you can, help COA. I do as often as I can.
Without COA and groups like it, the protected class continues to get away with its hypocritical and unconstitutional insistence that only its members are worthy of armed protection.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27578
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Posted: May 10, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
c 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
It's no secret that members of the protected political class in America are often afforded special rights and privileges that, in theory, all of us are "guaranteed" but seldom can utilize to their fullest.
One of those privileges is the right to walk around without fear of being killed by an armed criminal.
That's because members of the protected political class ? lawmakers, policymakers and federal officials ? either have 24-7 armed protection provided them, or they are "allowed" to carry their own weapons for their own defense.
The vast majority of Americans are not so lucky. Their Second Amendment rights are meted out to them in small, controlled doses by the protected class.
Granted, with 43 states having passed some sort of "concealed carry" law, "permitting" the unwashed masses to partially utilize their right to bear arms ? supposedly a right guaranteed by the Constitution ? most citizens, if they choose, can pack a gun.
Well, only certain kinds of guns. And they can't be packed everywhere.
Only the protected class gets to pack their guns wherever they go ? to church, in the liquor store, in bars, in schools, in shopping malls, in public and government buildings, and even on commercial flights.
You must understand, however, that not all of the protected class agrees that the unwashed masses should be "allowed" to utilize what was supposed to be a guaranteed right to be armed.
For example, in my home state of Missouri, Democrat Gov. Bob Holden has said he doesn't trust the unwashed masses with their Second Amendment right. He has vowed to veto a concealed-carry bill that has already passed the legislature by a 2-1 margin.
Holden, mind you, has 24-7 armed protection, compliments of a team of special Missouri Highway Patrol officers. That protection is funded by the very taxpayers he won't "allow" to carry a gun for their own protection.
The protected class will go out of its way to formulate a legal opinion defying logic to ensure a child pornographer has his First Amendment "right" to generate and distribute disgusting smut. These same jokers, however, will perform legal gymnastics to "explain" why law-abiding, taxpaying American citizens can't utilize their Second Amendment right to self-protection.
One reader recently submitted what I believe is a reasonable request after I wrote a story detailing why the government is refusing to arm airline pilots. He said at a minimum, the protected class should be offered the same "non-lethal weaponry" being offered to pilots.
"If such non-lethal means are adequate for the nation's pilots and those they are charged with protecting, should they not also be adequate for the nation's leaders? How about the federal government's law enforcement officers?" he wrote.
Point well-made. The protected class will allow an armed federal marshal aboard flights, but not military veteran pilots with as much weapons training and responsibility.
One group that recognizes the hypocrisy and fear of the protected class is Citizens of America. For years now this group has managed to get a number of media outlets from print to radio to Internet to run pro-gun ads designed to tug at your heartstrings as well as your sense of fair play and common sense.
Brian Puckett, head of the group, says he's making progress. And as if to underscore that progress, Solicitor General Theodore Olson on Tuesday conveyed to the U.S. Supreme Court the Bush administration's view that, yes indeed, the Second Amendment "more broadly protects the rights of individuals."
Puckett also says more needs to be done. I agree. In the same filings this week, Olson also said the Justice Department believes the Second Amendment is "subject to reasonable restrictions designed to prevent possession by unfit persons or to restrict the possession of types of firearms that are particularly suited to criminal misuse."
It's those "reasonable restrictions," however, that are getting innumerable Americans killed each year. Many in the protected class still prohibit the carrying of a gun for most people to many places they want to go.
If you can, help COA. I do as often as I can.
Without COA and groups like it, the protected class continues to get away with its hypocritical and unconstitutional insistence that only its members are worthy of armed protection.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27578
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878