I'll balance that against this not-infrequent Conservative sentiment that shows no trust in humanity, and thus feels obliged to threaten to blow their brains out if they don't get their way.
'We need to let those who will come in the future to represent us that we are serious. The 2nd amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives. It seems that we are unable to muster that belief in any of our representatives on a state or federal level, but we have to have something, something costly, something that they will fear that we will use if they step out of line.'
The same lengthy opinion piece in the Benton Co., Arkansas, GOP Newsletter (http://www.nogy.net/bcgop/Apr_2013/index.html, written by the husband of the party secretary, who publishes the newsletter), lamenting something about the state legislature acquiescing to (gasp) Obamacare, includes other references to "a quick implementation of my 2nd amendment rights to remove a threat domestic," but admits "I don’t feel the same way about the Democrats as bullet backstops as I do about the Republicans who joined them."
Y'know, it's funny — I keep looking at the Second Amendment, and while I see reference to "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," I just can't find anything about how the whole thing is designed to make legislators feel continuously in fear of their lives. Can anyone help me here?
(h/t +Les Jenkins)
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Benton, Arkansas GOP: ‘2nd Amendment Means Nothing Unless Those In Power Believe You’d Have No Problem Walking Up And Shooting Them’
Taegan Goddard has the quote from the Benton County, AR Republican Party. “We need to let those who will come in the future to represent us [know] that we are serious. The 2nd amendment means nothi……
That interpretation of the 2nd Amendment seems be a claim that there's a constitutional right to commit acts of terrorism. They need to be called out on that.
In all honesty I've never had a huge problem with the 2nd Amendment, but when people start saying shit like that asshole it suddenly comes to mind that Amendments can be repealed (see Prohibition) and I begin to wonder if it's the 2nd's time to consider such a possibility. Clearly we've devolved to the point that we can't be allowed access to tools such as guns because apparently many of us haven't progressed beyond the age of 6 mentally.
Thanks, Les — now I'm thinking of a six-year-old considering the right of bodily integrity to mean that he should be able to threaten people, his teacher included, with a kick in the shins.