Lest you were in doubt about the left’s motives re the 2nd Amendment:
I am coming for your guns. That’s it. I’m figuring out away to come for them.
— Andrew Minck (@AndrewMinck) July 18, 2016
Watch out – it’s Andrew Minck, “Educator, News Connoisseur, Marathoner, MinnPost News Quizmaster”, on Twitter.
Promptly chirping in to support Minck was MnPost “journalist” Beth Hawkins:
@AndrewMinck So in. Sign me up.
— Beth Hawkins (@beth_hawkins) July 18, 2016
That’d be “education” reporter Beth Hawkins.
I think we can give ’em and education…
It doesn’t sound to me as if anything’s changed.
They’re going to raise ten million dollars to somehow deprive two million Minnesota gun owners of their rights, then? Good luck with that one.
That’s trump change for Bloomberg, BB. Didn’t “Protect” MN already get nearly that much to fail?
If I posted a Tweet proclaiming that I intended to deprive Black people of their civil rights, I suspect Liberals would not only deplore it, they’d ask my employer why such a hateful person continues to work there. They might post my home address on the internet.
Andy words for The Anton Group which provides advisory and accounting services to schools. and lives in Minneapolis But I don’t think gun owners should picket his neighbors or start a secondary boycott against his employer. I don’t think we should ambush school boards demanding to know why they hire a firm with such hateful employees. I don’t think we should try to get him fired for expressing a political opinion.
That’s how you can tell I’m not a Liberal.
If I posted a Tweet proclaiming that I intended to deprive Black people of their civil rights
Joe, if you ever posted anything in support of Voter ID, you already have. At least, that’s what the lefties keep telling us. Not sure how requiring valid photo ID to protect voter disenfranchisement is racist, but I’m sure DG will be along to FACT-CHECK us.
You know, there are a couple of former and current Minnesota GOP politicians that have appeared at the Minnpost’s yearly fundraiser. Petulant, disgraced scumbag Michael Brodkorb’s side piece can be overlooked, because well, Brodkorb right? But what is up with Tom Emmer? Why has no one taken him to the wood shed? A simple WTF, Tom? for starters.
This kind of collaborating with the enemy, and make no mistake, the reprobates behind the Minnpost are real America’s enemies, is the kind of shit that is pushing Trump’s campaign. If it is too much to ask that you not provide your services to help raise money for a pack of leftist scumbags, then do not come knocking at my door in November, pal.
“I am coming for your guns. That’s it. I’m figuring out away to come for them.”
But you can’t use a gun to take them. Better do some real good figuring.
Sef, perish the thought!
He’ll have Obama bring in the baby-blue helmeted UN troops to collect them all.
I wonder, has anyone ever raised the question to Stanek, “Will you follow the paths of your other rural county sheriffs across the country and forbid the federal government to step foot into Hennepin County for the purposes of gun control/collection activities?”
your other rural county sheriff colleagues, that is.
and forbid the federal government to step foot into Hennepin County
Alas, nobody is going to be asking their permission. Once pliant courts grant Feds the authority, the only way to prevent confiscation will be force on force. The big question is, on whose side will Police and National Guard will be on? We all know whose boots civilian militarized agencies are licking. Hmmm. Maybe that is why they are being militarized.
I can’t find the exact quote, but I’m thinking of that scene in Bull Durham.
“C’mon Meat. Throw some more of that weak shit in here. C’mon Meat, Do it.”
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All they have to do is repeal the second amendment. Should be easy, right? The Left is always telling us how the vast majority of Americans want to repeal the second amendment.
To discover what the founders thought of rebellion and insurrection, we can consult that invaluable commentary on the thoughts of the founders found in the Federalist Papers. I give you Federalist 28 (Hamilton):
So the militia exists to put down insurrection!
Not so fast . . .
Later in Fed. 28, Hamilton writes:
When will the time arrive that the federal government can raise and maintain an army capable of erecting a despotism over the great body of the people of an immense empire, who are in a situation, through the medium of their State governments, to take measures for their own defense, with all the celerity, regularity, and system of independent nations?
A collection of sovereign states; another casualty of the Civil War.
Swiftee, you occasionally can spot a Southern sympathizer by their careful use of language.
Before 1860, “The United States ARE going to war.” All of the individual states are going.
After 1865, “The United States IS going to war.” The federal government is going, the states be damned.
It’s a tiny difference in diction but an enormous difference in political philosophy.
I think that Lincoln was correct about the insolubility of the Union. He believed that the rule against secession was meta. The constitution itself made no sense if states could quit and rejoin. We are seeing something like the chaos of that kind of system with the fallout from the Brexit vote. You really have no union at all.
But that is not an endorsement of Wilson and Roosevelt era centralized government. I am afraid that the only way that the US, given its unique history and diverse population, can have a strong federal government is if that government is autocratic. You can have a federal government that dictates the chemical formula in laundry detergent, or you can have a representative government, but you can not have both.