4 More Ways Obama's Gun Control Speech Sows Mistrust

[GreyGeek]

http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/04/4-more-ways-obamas-gun-control-speech-so

Here's the 4th point:

He pooh-poohs the idea that there could ever be anything adversarial about the relationship between Americans and their government:

You hear some of these quotes: "I need a gun to protect myself from the government." "We can't do background checks because the government is going to come take my guns away."

Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. (Applause.) They are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It's a government of and by and for the people."

One of the constraints on the federal government is the doctrine of enmuerated powers, which says every act of Congress must be justified by a specific constitutional grant of authority. Where is the clause that empowers Congress to say how many rounds you can put in a magazine or whether your rifle can have a barrel shroud? Furthermore, as Obama surely has heard by now, there is this thing called the Second Amendment, and it is hardly frivolous to argue than an arbitrary and capricious piece of legislation like the "assault weapon" ban Obama supports would violate the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Yet to Obama's mind, anyone who makes such an argument is one of those "people who take absolute positions" and therefore can be safely ignored. After all, the government is us.

[DangerousDrummer]

We will not win this unless we look every progressive we know in the eye and call them what the are... Murderer! I informed my wife who is helping with her nephew's wedding that I will not be attending. The brides parents are progressives that voted for Obama. I told her if I go I risk ruining the bride's wedding and I will not punish her for what her parents did. Although I doubt they would show the same courtesy.