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Unfortunately, the people who determine the legality of the orders are the same people who give them.
It is illegal for any servicemember to fight in a war that Congress has not officially declared, but some of the war dead we will be commemorating tomorrow died in actions promulgated by our government, but never declared to be wars. In popular parlance, both Korea and Vietnam, for instance, are wars, but Congress never declared war in either instance.
Must be the new military....I though that was what the AG's office was for.
And on the second bolded part, where did you hear or read that ?????
Forget gun control, after readining this thread, the government will have to mandate boating safety courses.
Yes indeed. It is tragic, just tragic, how so many take safety on the water so lightly. Indeed I am amongst their ranks, as my Boston Whaler sank in VERY deep water on Pyramid lake last year. Taking every single one of my firearms with it. Could be that the vessel was ..overloaded.
If, in a moment of clarity or insanity (your choice), the Second Amendment was repealed and personal guns were outlawed, would you accede the loss of the Constitutional right and give up your arms?
I'm envisioning a reasonable disarming process where owners would be compensated for their firearms and ammo with tax credits at fair market value.
Exceptions would be made for antiques, heirlooms and historically important pieces, provided that they are rendered inoperable and made obvious with maybe a non-removable fluorescent orange plug in the barrel.
Maybe firearms could still be available from an armory for short term rental to hunters or to target shooters on the premises of a range.
So, your response would be:
"OK, here are my guns and ammo; now, where's my tax credit?" or "pry from my cold, dead hands?" Or something else?
My guns weren't lost in a boating incident but were picked up by a tornado a couple years ago and ended up in the Chesapeake.
Crazy. Mine were being air-mailed to the manufacturer for repairs when the plane managed to lose it's entire cargo over Lake Michigan. All arms were lost.
I always find it amusing when people suggest we inherently have rights. As sovereign individuals, we have the freedom of will at act as we choose, but our rights are always handed out by those superior to use--whether socially placed or not. The government says what we can and cannot do, and punishment for doing something that isn't a "right" is significant prison time. In fact, the concept of rights is primarily a western concept.
I can claim a right to arms, but it only extends as far as the governments will allow. If our government were to repeal the second amendment, they would have significant problems--the bloody kind--from those 300,000,000 legal firearms, not to mention the large number of illegal firearms. The only way to repeal the second amendment is to continue these draconian gun control laws. Ban automatics. Ban large magazines. Ban "scary guns." Ban handguns. Ban non-sporting guns. Ban large caliber rifles. Ban pump shotguns. Ban semi-automatic firearms--bolt-action only. Etc. Whittle away at the right--only allow decreasing numbers of firearms until they just don't exist anymore legally. ****, I remember California wanting to hike taxes on ammunition so that the ammo is prohibitively expensive--guns don't work if you don't have bullets.
thanks, most of the civilian population think anything with tracks and is armored is automatically a tank. too bad they are usually wrong. sort of like the misnamed "assault rifle".
Must be the new military....I though that was what the AG's office was for.
And on the second bolded part, where did you hear or read that ?????
That would be the Constitution?
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Indeed I am amongst their ranks, as my Boston Whaler sank in VERY deep water on Pyramid lake last year. Taking every single one of my firearms with it. Could be that the vessel was ..overloaded.
