For John, BLUF: The NRA, derided left and right, is holding its own. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Quoting from The Instapundit:
Well, and after the NYT, and pretty much all the other inside-the-beltway crowd, called the armed-guards-in-schools proposal crazy — the Times called it “delusional, almost deranged” — President Obama came out with . . . a proposal for armed guards in schools. It is no small feat for an out-of-touch, on-the-ropes organization to get the President to basically endorse its signature policy proposal at a time of national debate.Read the whole thing.
Regards — Cliff
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We have resource officers in Lowell. You're insisting that infusing funds into an existing paradigm is equivalent to POTUS supporting the NRA's feeble "policy" blurts?
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Further, I find those that speak as authorities about the mindset of our Founders arrogant and offputting.
Our Founders were complicated folk:
Article XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.
h/t Corey Sciuto
Hat Tip to Corey Sciuto? Why not Adams?
The Founding Fathers need to be approached with humility, but they need to be approached. Our past is complicated. Only this afternoon did someone point out to.me that we owe something to the Sultan of Mysore.
As for the Second Amendment, it is what it is. We live with it or we repeal it, and in so doing we should disarm the police on the street. Stealth repeal, by a multiplication of laws, rules and bureaucrats is unworthy of a nation following in the wake of English Common Law. The men of Runnymeade would be embarrassed for us.
Regards — Cliff
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