If you ever wonder why the framers of the Constitution and our founding fathers thought the Bill of Rights was so important to the Constitution, you need to look no further than the liberal politicians in the State of California.
Californias left wing government thinks there is a constitutional right for homosexuals to marry but you cannot have a gun in California. In California, the authorities try to restrict speech based on the fact that they do not like it.
I have read the Constitution. No matter where you fall on the issue of gay marriage, something can be said with absolute certainty. The Constitution protects free speech. The Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution is absolutely silent on the issue of gay marriage, not to mention marriage at all.
Another nail has been driven into the coffin containing Constitutional rights in California. California has just enacted a law that bans the open carrying of unloaded handguns and registration of long guns.
California has banned the open carry of loaded handguns, except in a few exceptions and California has made it very difficult to obtain a concealed carry permit. In fact, one of the requirements to get a concealed carry permit in California is that you must be a brain dead celebrity who rants about the horrifying fact that some people actually own guns.
Our founding fathers knew a couple of things. First, an armed populace is a great deterrent against tyranny, invasion and bad behavior.
Leftists scream about how dangerous guns are. They scream that if we allow mere citizens to carry guns, there will be bloodbaths. If we let mere citizens carry weapons, there will be shootouts in the streets.
However, as with all liberal hysteria, those tirades are long on silly emotional screaming and very short on facts. A majority of states allow either open carry or as I like to call it, Constitutional carry or concealed carry.
Not only are the bodies not piling up in these states, these are also the states that have the lowest crime rates. Criminals may be lazy but are not totally stupid. They look for the easiest target and certainly do not want to mix it up with someone who is carrying a gun and probably knows how to use it.
While the left screams about the myth of how dangerous guns are, they are amazingly silent on something else. Almost every week, we hear stories about people who legally own and carry firearms. Not only are they not committing crimes, they are stopping crimes.
Interestingly enough in Chicago and DC, after handgun bans were struck down, crime dropped!
Compare that to what happened in Britain, Ireland and Australia. When they banned guns, their crime rates went through the roof.
As California works to further ban guns, look for crime to continue to rise in the land of fruits and nuts. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will eventually reverse that decision and impose some sanity on California.
In the meanwhile, Jerry Brown and company are proving the truth of the statement that our country was designed by geniuses and run by morons.
Californias left wing government thinks there is a constitutional right for homosexuals to marry but you cannot have a gun in California. In California, the authorities try to restrict speech based on the fact that they do not like it.
I have read the Constitution. No matter where you fall on the issue of gay marriage, something can be said with absolute certainty. The Constitution protects free speech. The Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution is absolutely silent on the issue of gay marriage, not to mention marriage at all.
Another nail has been driven into the coffin containing Constitutional rights in California. California has just enacted a law that bans the open carrying of unloaded handguns and registration of long guns.
California has banned the open carry of loaded handguns, except in a few exceptions and California has made it very difficult to obtain a concealed carry permit. In fact, one of the requirements to get a concealed carry permit in California is that you must be a brain dead celebrity who rants about the horrifying fact that some people actually own guns.
Our founding fathers knew a couple of things. First, an armed populace is a great deterrent against tyranny, invasion and bad behavior.
Leftists scream about how dangerous guns are. They scream that if we allow mere citizens to carry guns, there will be bloodbaths. If we let mere citizens carry weapons, there will be shootouts in the streets.
However, as with all liberal hysteria, those tirades are long on silly emotional screaming and very short on facts. A majority of states allow either open carry or as I like to call it, Constitutional carry or concealed carry.
Not only are the bodies not piling up in these states, these are also the states that have the lowest crime rates. Criminals may be lazy but are not totally stupid. They look for the easiest target and certainly do not want to mix it up with someone who is carrying a gun and probably knows how to use it.
While the left screams about the myth of how dangerous guns are, they are amazingly silent on something else. Almost every week, we hear stories about people who legally own and carry firearms. Not only are they not committing crimes, they are stopping crimes.
Interestingly enough in Chicago and DC, after handgun bans were struck down, crime dropped!
Compare that to what happened in Britain, Ireland and Australia. When they banned guns, their crime rates went through the roof.
As California works to further ban guns, look for crime to continue to rise in the land of fruits and nuts. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will eventually reverse that decision and impose some sanity on California.
In the meanwhile, Jerry Brown and company are proving the truth of the statement that our country was designed by geniuses and run by morons.
