by DeadRinger » Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:28 am
I try to teach my kids the meaning of "conflict of interest." Because it's EVERYWHERE in government, non-profit and, to a much lesser extent, in business.
The job that the person in office is SUPPOSED to do is in direct opposition to how they gain power and get rich. The "concepts" of our founding and our Constitution - Protecting the country and its citizens, protecting the RIGHTS of the citizens, reining in the tyranny of government, clearing the way for people and business to succeed... All these things are nothing but punch lines in DC.
Now we have a bunch of idiot teenagers (all teenagers are idiots - all passion, no knowledge) are marching in Washington to try to take my guns from me.
All I can say is: Thank God the Shrew didn't win. We'd be good and truly fucked.
As far as those who want to trash the 2nd, I say this: Why the fuck would ANYONE beg the government to revoke ANY right we have? It's the most moronic thing in the world. I tell my kids all the time: Individual freedom is the BEST way to live. Not the safest, but the best. And anyone who is willing to trade a right for "safety" winds up only giving the government more and more control, and the safety they wanted so much is nothing but an illusion.
Every single gun control law on the books is illegal.
The only place you can draw the line is "mass destruction" - type devices. Those technically can't be defined as "arms." But anything i can carry - full auto assault rifles, bazooka, mini-gun, WHATEVER - is my 2nd amendment RIGHT to keep and bear. And everyone who has ever been involved in writing, voting for or signing laws that restrict that right should be thrown in prison. Forever. Because they're tyrants.
There is no such thing as a "Constitutional" gun control law. The Supreme Court has sold out the US citizens by allowing fed, states and locals to enact their own gun control laws. It was LONG ago decided in courts that the protections in the Bill of Rights apply every bit as much to states and locals as they do to fed.
ILLEGAL. All of it.
BETTER be a playoff win in 2022.