7 Terrible Liberal Gun Control Arguments … And How To Beat Them

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall Columnist

I argue for a living. I often deal with hacks, liars, and agenda-driven fanatics. But never in a quarter century of being in court rooms have I faced such a blizzard of constitutional illiteracy, technical ignorance, flabby reasoning, and outright lies as I have dealing with people who think our Second Amendment rights are up for debate.

 

Our rights are not up for debate. But, as a courtesy, because talking is the way a free people should endeavor to solve problems, we should debate them anyway. Rational discussion beats the alternative – many of us are vets who saw the alternative overseas – even if the other side prefers emotional blackmail using articulate infants to bum rush their anti-civil rights policies. So, here are seven (it could have been 50) of the most annoying – and dishonest – arguments you will hear, and how you can fight them.

1. You Don’t Actually Have The Right To Own Guns Because You Aren’t In A Militia!
Nope. That’s wrong right off the line because Heller v. District of Columbia (2008) 554 U.S. 570, holds as a matter of settled law that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms regardless of their militia status.

The Second Amendment provides: “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.” Justice Scalia, writing for the majority in Heller, dismissed the argument that this right somehow, despite the clear text, belongs to “militias” and not individuals. Your opponent may not like that, but that’s what Heller says. That’s what the Constitution says.

Erdogan vows to recapture all lands once held by the Ottoman Empire — and more
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

“We say at every opportunity we have that Syria, Iraq and other places in the geography [map] in our hearts are no different from our own homeland. We are struggling so that a foreign flag will not be waved anywhere where adhan [Islamic call to prayer in mosques] is recited.” Apparently Erdogan means at the […]
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Anti-Trumper Sen. Jeff Flake: DACA Recipients ‘Represent the Very Best of America’

By Geller Report Staff  

Sen. Jeff Flake, the soon-to-be-gone Republican-in-Name-Only from Arizona, penned a piece for the Washington Post in which he called out DACA recipients as among the “very best” America has to offer.

Flake, who announced just recently he would not seek reelection — without acknowledging the reason for his step-down as facing failing numbers in the polls — has been a consistent voice of anti-President Donald Trumpism for months.

Remember when he took to the Senate floor to condemn Trump for fighting the media? Classic anti-Trumpism.

Read entire article and see video here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/02/anti-trumper-sen-jeff-flake-daca-receipients-represent-best-america.html/