Images of the Antis: This One Rubs Me The Wrong Way

This Image REALLY gets me grouchy. I found it on Joan Peterson’s Pinterest page:

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So first up its that “Collective Rights” arguments that only anti-freedom extremists believe in. (Read the Heller Dissent! ALL of the Judges, even the crazy “Progressive” ones accept that the 2nd Amendment is an Individual Right….just that “Rights” shouldn’t be anything…because “Progressive”)

But We have a State SWAT team armed with rifles and body armor as a “Well Regulated Militia”.

NO NO NO! First up STATE POLICE is the antithesis of the Militia, especially given that there really wasn’t much for a Federal Government at the time of the Framing of the US Constitution. Further if you read the writings of our founding fathers they spoke with GREAT distrust of “Standing Armies in Time of Peace”, and honestly today we have an Army, even at times of peace…but on US Soil they are essentially disarmed and with little power or authority.

Meanwhile we have Police forces with military weapons and armor, and a LESS stringent rules of engagement, and these SWAT teams are in every major city, and most smaller ones.

Those who are against the 2nd Amendment have literally ZERO understanding of the Constitution or the philosophy of the founders.

As if that should come as a surprise.

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3 Responses to Images of the Antis: This One Rubs Me The Wrong Way

  1. Bob S. says:

    I’m starting to change my mind a little on this issue; of course Joan isn’t going to like the way I take it.

    I think we should encourage the federal government to give more military tools to the civilian police forces. But I also think we should break up most of the larger cities and towns into very, very small towns.

    If the ‘militia; are ‘state troopers, then militia must encompass all adults (gender discrimination not allowed, age discrimination not allowed), be given weaponry equal to what is currently deployed to agencies (including encrypted radios, MRAPs, etc) and be given authority to arrest and detain people.

    Let them chew on that….we have the backing of the law, isn’t the Dick Act of 1902 very clear? Article 1 Section 8 is also very clear the federal government has the authority

    15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

    Think of the advantages the country would have; a law enforcement presence just about everywhere, response times incredibly low (Hey, we are already There !!) and all it takes is the government to arm and train everyone to use those arms.

    Sure you want to go there Joan?

  2. The Jack says:

    So Joan thinks that the State shall not infringe the right of Agents of the State to keep and bear arms… while on duty for the state?

    How’s that work exactly? The State can’t take issue guns away from its employees? Or can it not fire its armed employees? Or maybe the State cannot order its armed employees to do something?

    What action “shall not be infringed” with regard to the state and its armed retainers?

    If the 2nd Amend only applies to, say, State police then what exact State action does it prevent?

    What that the Feds can’t disarm a State’s police force? Is that it?

    Does she have a thought process other than “Proles having guns is bad”?

  3. Joel says:

    Pop Quiz for Ms. Peterson:

    Full time, paid, armed and uniformed personnel working for and reporting to the government at taxpayer expense would, in the eighteenth century, have been regarded as:
    A. A Well-Regulated Militia
    B. A Standing Army

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