Ted Cruz On The Fourth Circuit Anti-Gun Ruling
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 10 months ago
“The Fourth Circuit used to be the most conservative court in the country,” Cruz said. “The Fourth Circuit now, they’ve invented this new test for the Second Amendment.”
The test, Cruz explained, says “the Second Amendment doesn’t protect a weapon if it would be useful in a military context.” The senator noted the absurdity of such a test, given the amendment reads:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” (Emphasis added.)“This test isn’t just sort of questionable, it isn’t just a little bit out there. It is nuts!” Cruz exclaimed. “The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military conflict.”
He added, “If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict!”
“You want to know the first gun control law in America?” Cruz asked the audience. “The first Congress passed a law mandating that all able-bodied men must own a musket.”
“That’s an individual mandate we could live with,” Mark Levin quipped.
On February 28, 2017 at 2:05 pm, DAN III said:
ALCON,
Mr. Cruz has the ability to express conservative values along with using Constitutional arguments to support such. But, here is where I have a problem with the Canadian-Cuban-American….Cruz wants to cite 2A, fine. However, he fails to cite USC, Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5, i.e., “….no person except a natural born Citizen….shall be eligible to the Office of President;”
He was born on Canadian soil and fathered by Cuban citizen and birthed by an American citizen mother. He renounced his Canadian citizenship barely 3 years ago just in time to claim he was now eligible to be POTUS. Mr. Cruz used the same argument as the Marxist moslem soetoro-obama….my mommy was an American. Problem with both scoundrels is that natural born has been defined as the child of two AMERICAN parents at time of birth. Citizenship in and of itself is no qualifier of POTUS eligibility. Natural born is the qualifier. Mr. Cruz is not natural born. He is no different from the lying, usurping scoundrel soetoro-obama. And of course their fellow low-lives in the Congress conveniently ignored both liars eligibility under the Constitution.
Mr. Cruz can defend 2A all he wants. But, in my book he is a weasel not to be trusted anymore than the Marxist moslem soetoro-obama.
On February 28, 2017 at 4:11 pm, Phil Ossiferz Stone said:
/rereads twice
/considers composing and typing out a detailed rebuttal
Bullshit.
On March 1, 2017 at 3:23 am, DAN III said:
Stone,
“Bullshit”.
Oh really ? That’s the best you can do ? Do the rebuttal “patriot”.
Citations please.