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Citizens Have the Power; Federal Govt, not really

Your pathetic individual rights do not trump Federal rights. Know your place, citizen.

The current talking point of the anti-Second Amendment crowd is to paint the picture that if you support individual rights, and State's rights, over Federal rights, that you are somehow unhinged, subversive, and shouldn't have access to firearms at all.

*sigh*......so tedious and predictable.

Oddly enough, no one says that about the men who wrote these truths into our National narrative.

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Here's the latest example of such attacks on our rights, from WR2A:

Oh, the horror, the horror. Apparently that pesky Alaska is getting too uppity. I smell a civil war a brewin’! Those idiot individualists who dare threaten our benevolent Federal government must be put down. In the interest of public peace, of course, of course.

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John Aronno over at Huff Po is telling us all the newest talking point of the anti-gun agenda: If you support gun rights, you are probably/obviously trying to usurp the Federal government and/or putting your pathetic rights above those of the Fed. Such treachery, indeed.

"The most controversial bill in recent Alaska history – and beyond – might be this session’s House Bill 69, sponsored by Speaker Mike Chenault. This House legislation was advertised as a declaration of state sovereignty as it related to owning firearms in Alaska. But that was more of a side note to the actual threat the language of the bill presents.

HB69 includes provocative language stipulating that state authorities could, should the bill pass, arrest federal agents who attempted to enforce federal law regarding gun regulations. For instance, if Washington, D.C. passed a law tomorrow stating that high capacity ammo clips are illegal, Chenault’s bill would deem that law invalid. It would empower state troopers to arrest any FBI agent seeking to enforce the law. It would tell citizens that they had more power than the feds."

Citizens having more power than the Feds? *Gasp! Oh my! Oh no!*

Yes. We do. We have. We always should. We always will.

Read more at WR2A.

 

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