And speaking of fouled up nomenclature and concepts, I've been watching John Walsh's new TV outlet, the "Justice Network."
Mainly for the forensic techniques (and no, I'm not planning a crime --I'm interested in the science involved).
Anyhow, I knew Walsh was a bit "anti," but at least he never spouted off on it with his interludes involving missing children and descriptions of criminals still being hunted.
But boy, talk about the antis pulling out all the stops, he suddenly comes up with one of his interludes which was virulently anti-gun,
including quite a number of technical errors and emotional appeals..
I wish I could catalog them but I was so stunned by the bullbleep I couldn't capture them in my head --at least not enough to quote accurately.
He started out with the usual "I'm a gun owner but..." and then immediately goes into a typical uninformed stream of anti gun platitudes.
(That was a direct quote.)
I tried to find a video of it with a video search, but I couldn't find one to present as evidence here. I guess it wasn't put on any of the video channels yet.
Although this may be unfair in Mr. Walsh's case, whenever I hear "I'm a gun owner but..." the image that pops into my mind is a rusty old .22 "gauge" rifle they got from their grandfather and is sitting either in the back of a closet or wrapped in a blanket up in the attic.
Somewhere.
In any case, Mr. Walsh, if this post somehow comes to your attention, I hope you will educate yourself a little better on both the technical and political aspects of firearms ownership as well as the plain English reading of the Second Amendment.
You might discover why it is the shortest and most emphatically written clause in the Constitution if you read the Preamble to the Bill of Rights.
Terry, 230RN
REF (Preamble to the U.S. Bill Of Rights, bolding mine):
Congress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
Repeated for truth:
...expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
