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  • At this juncture, a state and individual nullification of Constitutionally prohibited federal actions seems likely, but not popular to do. Most folks earnestly want to be law-abiding. When your disobedient government servant is in your face, and copping a feel over your personal civil rights, freedoms, and liberties, threatening prosecution if you resist,  a wholesale rejection of all government things seditious ought to be obvious.

  • Maybe all of us should join the NRA.

    • Join both the NRA and the G.O.A. Gun Owners of America. Between them they hjave enough poloitical clout right now to block most of the gun grabs.

  • Next step in gun confiscation with the law biding citizens.

    Communist Rules for Revolution

    10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.

     

    • Mike, Most Americans refuse to see we are in the middle of a communist takeover, pushed by the elites to strip all power from the people and take it themselves. They are so firm in their belief that it can't happen in America, they turn a blind eye to it happening right in front of them. Communism is extremelt similar to what Oligarchic Monarchies were before the Magna Charta was created. Basically the top,leader and his handpicked crony's decided how things were to be done, and they could change them on a whim. The people had no say, and were basically slaves to the powerful. 

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      Skeptical; Unfortunately the three words in the 14th Amendment "No State Shall" actually precludes States from nullifying Federal laws. Those words are what flipped the constitution from the States having chains on the Federal government to the Federal Government having chains on the states and the people. the only Constitutional recourse the States and the People have is Article-V. It will take an Amendment or actually several Amendments, to return America to the Representative Republic it was intended to be.

      1. We could start with a clarification Amendment for the 2nd A like the one seen here (https://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/forum/topics/with-confiscatory-gun-...).

      2. We also need to Repeal the 17th and put the Senators back in their original capacity of equally representing their States instead of representing their political parties.

      3. We should have an amendment which would set term limits for Congress.

      4. We desperately need an amendment which would limit the Supreme Court to 9 and lifetime terms because Congress can change that at a whim, and probably will attempt to under Biden.

      5. If you look closely at the 14th amendment you will see there are other amendments which also protect the same rights the 14th was intended to protect. Voting Rights and Citizenship. ( See; http://www.14thamendment.us/amendment/14th_amendment.html ) to see what the 14th was originally intended to do and what it has been expanded by Democratic legislating from the bench to what it is doing now.

      6. We could create an amendment which would make Congress liable under all the laws they create and forbid them from exempting themselves like they have done so often.

      7. We need an Amendment which would forbid Congress from increasing their pay without a 3/4 affirmative vote by the people.

      8. We seriously need an amendment which would allow the people to uverturn any Law, Regulation, or Court decision if approved by a 7/8 affirmative vote by the public and broken down to Local, State, and Federal laws and courts putting them back under the control and consent of 7/8 of the voting population.

      Seriously, would you expect Congress to support any of these amendments? In actuality Congress and all other representatives we elect to government are honor bound to do what the people want as long as it is within the boundaries of the written Constitution. They have not done that for over 100 years.

      Using a States Petitioned for Article-V Amendment proposal Convention ( THIS IS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE NAYSAYERS SPOUT). All fundamental protections for a states Convention are the same as if it were a Congressional Convention.

      When a minimum of 34 States petition Congress for an Article-V Convention, it is the same rules that cover a Congress called amendment proposal convention, and Congress must call it then step back and let the States make all the proposals.

      The States choose delegates to talk amlong themselves and propose potential amendments with the exact wording agreed on by all 34 of those States the proposals are sent to Congress.

      Congress must send those proposals out to all 50 states for formal ratification (even if 50 States sent in the proposals), and it takes 38 states at present to Ratify proposals to be come law.

      Congress is literally terrified the people would band together and do this because it would forever break their stranglehold of power and return that power to the people. I don't know about you, but I trust the vast majority of the people musc more than I trust Congress to make laws for the benefit of the American People.

      The Tradesman
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    • Wrong guy, but thanks for reading my rant.

      Never hesitant to stroll into a mine field, I assume that the text:

       " No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." is what we are working with.

      After the compromising actions of entrenched Executive bureaucracy, Congress, and particularly SCOTUS, I assert no contemporary benefit of doubt for Federal Supremacy in due process is reasonably to be expected. Federal law can no longer safely be presumed as such. States long tolerance of 2nd Amendment infringement harbored by that assumption, has abetted this crisis, even though their injurious natures to the People interests are obvious. Wyatt Earp as Tombstone city sheriff was wrong (as an example), for the best of reasons. His long standing city firearms regulation has none-the-less been voided recently.

      Thinking the third clause is what is being played, I will point out that applied "equal protection of the laws" is oxymoronic to federal actions which actually, "equally", reduces or denies inherent rights, freedoms, and liberties. Recognizing that any law, or regulation regarding the keeping and bearing of arms as an infringement is key. This affirmation of the inherent right of self-defense, specifically referencing arms really does not quibble. The Federal authority does not trump the Constitution, but is rather dependent and subordinate to it.

      An indirect "equal protection of laws" concern might be sellable, if the state action universally duns individual life, liberty, or property everywhere, as the Federal government would attempt now. But I do not see any, but the capricious federal governments ox being gored, by legislating a Constitutional litmus test for state territory implimentation, of the Constitutional validity and soundness of Federal law, and a rejection of federal unconstitutional law or action within the borders of a sovereign state (how can the Federal govenment complain?). For what it's worth, the Federal Executive could challenge judicially at the SCOTUS level, to implement such laws Nationwide, I suppose. Then the onus is on it.

      I assert, the Federal Government lacks the described mandate for afforded benefit of doubt without a demonstated worthiness for its privilige that it has now lost. I do not enjoy having my political back legally pissed on and told it is rain.

      A Convention of States is an event idea, near and dear to my heart. The intense interest in Constitutional causes and outcomes promises valued reform that exploiters do not want to occur. They have worked hard and generationally long at circumventing or confusing our admirable Constitutions mission. I am hopeful this heightened awareness of contemporary hazard will spur more state legislatures to particpate.

      Other than that ditty, I like and appreciate what you have thoughtfully presented.  Thank you for doing so.

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