Obama: Constitution ‘Constrains’ Me

[Patricia M. McBride]

 

 

 

 

And yesterday, Obama said: 

But on Wednesday, President Obama took his gun control push a step further:  He admitted that only the Constitution stands between him and full gun confiscation.

So now, you actually know what the plan is and why Biden said the gun bill in the congress "was only the beginning".  Obama wants to do away totally with your second amendment rights period just as all other tyrants and dictators before him have.

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4 April 2013

In his pursuit of overarching gun control legislation in the aftermath of the  Sandy Hook massacre, President Barack Obama has been dogged. He’s been  relentless. He’s been demagogic, too, whether flanking himself with  schoolchildren (the implication being that his political opponents don’t care  about dead kids) or suggesting that if just one life can be saved by his  legislation, we ought to buy into it wholeheartedly (a proposition that would  justify almost any sort of government overreach).

But on Wednesday, President Obama took his gun control push a step further:  He admitted that only the Constitution stands between him and full gun  confiscation.

Rejecting concerns that new background checks might be a prelude to gun  seizures, Obama suggested that worries about gun seizures were empty, and were  only designed to feed “into fears about government. You hear some of these  folks: ‘I need a gun to protect myself from the government. We can’t do  background checks because the government’s going to come take my guns away.’ The  government’s us. These officials are elected by you. … I am constrained as they  are constrained by the system that our founders put in place.”

This is deeply frightening language. The notion that government tyranny is  impossible in an elective republic is insanity of the first order. Hitler was  elected chancellor. Mussolini manipulated his way into power through  constitutional means. Hamas was elected in the Gaza Strip. Mohammed Morsi and  his thuggish Muslim Brotherhood were elected in Egypt. If rights are dependent  on votes — if we only have a right to bear arms because a majority of the  population elects politicians who say we have a right to bear arms — then we  have no rights at all.

The point of rights is to guarantee them against government. That is why the  founders stated that rights descend not from government — not from “us,” as  Obama would have it — but from God or nature. And in truth, Obama feels the same  way about rights he thinks are universal, including the so-called right to  same-sex marriage or the right to abortion. Reverse Obama’s argument by stating  that radical feminists worry about a complete ban on abortion, but that feeds  into fears about government, which after all, is only “us.” Would Obama agree  with this? Or would he say that true rights cannot be violated, even by a  majority vote?

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