The NRA must think that the oh so cleverly named and downright deceptive HB 357 will not pass as written, given the righteous reaction of Governor Markell, and the exposed lies of John Atkins and Joe Booth. You see, Atkins and Booth were selling the legislation as a simple Second Amendment issue allowing those living in public housing in the state their right to own and possess a gun in their own homes. The truth is that the NRA-written legislation would actually overturn all gun control regulations in the State of Delaware.
So now the NRA, the sickening bully that it is, is threatening the four public housing authorities of Delaware with lawsuits if they do not rescind their bans on guns. You see, the NRA was caught in their deception, and now cannot abide by the normal legislative process, so now they resort to beating up on a financially strapped public agency. It is typical.
Kavips reacts angrily. While I cannot endorse Kavips’ plan on taking the fight to the three registered lobbyists for the NRA in the State of Delaware by forcing the three to live in the same conditions as those in some of our more violent public housing projects, i.e. by having them be the victims of the same gun violence that occurs in our public housing projects, he does offer a very good constitutional argument against overturning gun control regulations.
If the case goes to court… here is how it plays out. Their side pulls out the second amendment. The defense pulls out the Declaration of Independence: “All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
These three rights are the only ones endowed by man’s Creator. The rest come from men.. If men choose to protect their lives and liberties over those of owning a gun, it is their choice. They are free to do so. It is perfectly within every American’s God given right to ban the use of guns on his property if he so desires.. That.. is what America is all about…
The Housing Authorities have every right to maintain the safety of their confines in anyway they see fit. If enforcing a gun ban protects citizen’s lives, then they have every right to do just that… Every innkeeper is allowed to make rules for his tenants. After all, it is his property.
Every householder or property owner is allowed to make rules and regulations pertaining to the use of his property. ”Follow these rules or get out”… Hell, every parent of teenagers has had to use that line once in a while to keep the peace. That is the American way. To sit in some cubicle far, far away talking smack, and having tons of tax payers money being spent on a frivalous lawsuit, is not the American way. For one, it is too cowardly to be considered American. For two, it goes against the doctrine that a man’s home is his castle… For three, removing the only protection those tenants of these domiciles have against gun violence from getting out of control, should be downright criminal.
I would like to see this argument in court. I have not seen it used before. Gun control advocates typically focus on the Second Amendment itself and the use of the term “regulate” within the clause itself, in that the Framers intended the right to bear arms to be regulated by the state.
As for Kavips taking the fight to the bully that is the NRA, I think he is getting as overheated as I did when I declared that all Rethugs should be round up and shot. But the normal reaction to a bully is to fight back, that is, unless you are Congressional Democrats.