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Trey Gowdy is a very successful former prosecutor at both the state and federal levels who was, for a few terms, Republican U.S. congresscritter from the South Carolina 4th District. You guys may remember him as the Representative who was in charge of the congressional Investigation of the Bengazi mess and its subsequent cover up. He did hold the Obama Administration's feet to the fire on that one though the Dems did ride it out.
After the two shootings of last weekend, and I admit to paraphrasing a long statement here, Gowdy said he would support any bill that would cut down on mass murders and The Constitution be damned because the right to life and safety trumps all other rights. This is bigger than just gun rights. That's how we got the Sedition Act at the start of the 19th century, the suspension of Habeus Corpus during the civil war (though I admit a Constitutional case was plausible in that one,) the internment of the Japanese in California at the start of WWII, and, most recently the Patriot Act and the F.I.S.A. courts which together are nothing more than an American "Star Chamber."
There are already provisions on guns motivated by that agenda which most of us don't even think about; for example in states that have Red Flag laws completely frivolous statements by a person's personal enemies have been used to confiscate their guns, sometimes permanently. The mental health provisions have been used to deny gun rights to large numbers of veterans diagnosed with P.T.S.D. In fact Donna Shalala and (I believe Dianne Feinstein) have made statements to the effect that serving in a combat zone is evidence of mental illness on its own even if P.T.S.D. is not diagnosed.
The President, who was for an "Assault Weapons Ban" for many more years than he was against it just came out in favor of more state Red Flag Laws and maybe a Federal version. Make nice with your neighbors and exes.
A free country is never the safest country and The Constitution was not intended as a document that could be suspended for convenience, a social agenda or political comfort.
After the two shootings of last weekend, and I admit to paraphrasing a long statement here, Gowdy said he would support any bill that would cut down on mass murders and The Constitution be damned because the right to life and safety trumps all other rights. This is bigger than just gun rights. That's how we got the Sedition Act at the start of the 19th century, the suspension of Habeus Corpus during the civil war (though I admit a Constitutional case was plausible in that one,) the internment of the Japanese in California at the start of WWII, and, most recently the Patriot Act and the F.I.S.A. courts which together are nothing more than an American "Star Chamber."
There are already provisions on guns motivated by that agenda which most of us don't even think about; for example in states that have Red Flag laws completely frivolous statements by a person's personal enemies have been used to confiscate their guns, sometimes permanently. The mental health provisions have been used to deny gun rights to large numbers of veterans diagnosed with P.T.S.D. In fact Donna Shalala and (I believe Dianne Feinstein) have made statements to the effect that serving in a combat zone is evidence of mental illness on its own even if P.T.S.D. is not diagnosed.
The President, who was for an "Assault Weapons Ban" for many more years than he was against it just came out in favor of more state Red Flag Laws and maybe a Federal version. Make nice with your neighbors and exes.
A free country is never the safest country and The Constitution was not intended as a document that could be suspended for convenience, a social agenda or political comfort.
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