If something needs to be officially designated “popular” by government in order to be “legal,” we may as well start calling each other “Comrade.” – David Codrea
“Denver defies Trump administration order to repeal longstanding assault weapons ban.” Denverite reports. The rhetoric is a response to the Department of Justice’s challenge to the city’s 1989 edict making it a crime to “to carry, store, keep, manufacture, sell, or otherwise possess assault weapons.”
Playing Victim
True to form, Democrat prohibitionists tyrannically denying individual citizens their birthright under severe penalty of law, are portraying themselves as the reasonable, injured parties. City Attorney Miko Brown called the action “Baseless, irresponsible, and a clear overreach of the federal government’s power.” Mayor Mike Johnston was more specific in his defiance: “We’re here today to let them know that our answer is ‘hell no. No, we will not roll back a common-sense policy that has kept weapons of war off of these city streets for 37 years.”
If that’s what they are (and they’re not), why police deploy with similar firepower is left unexplained, albeit Denver calls such official weaponry “patrol rifles.” Also left unaddressed are the facts that the Second Amendment does not limit “arms” the people keep and bear. And the textual, historical, and traditional understanding at the time of ratification was “every terrible implement of the soldier is the birthright of an American.” The fear was of a standing army. The militia were “the whole people except for a few public officers.” That’s been reversed.
By David Codrea
