Well said. But I'll go a step further; people who have the need to carry guns openly in public are not to be trusted. It's either paranoia or exhibitionist behavior, which makes them the sort of people who should be thoroughly vetted before they get a gun.
They do not believe in freedom. They believe in license, and I've found few of them who know any parts of the Constitution except the second half of the second article. Do you really think the language about a militia is adventitious? Most of the "packin'" advocates are Repugnican, who claim they believe in "original intent." How about the shaky Constitutional status of a standing army? The entire USA PATRIOT Act is an insult to the Constitution which these "freedom" advocates support full-throatedly.

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Trump move 'tremendous victory for America's gun owners'
But ex-NRA chief urges president to 'kill' U.S. signature on U.N. treaty


Former National Rifle Association President David Keene says the Second Amendment dodged a major bullet when the vacant seat on the Supreme Court was filled by Justice Neil Gorsuch, but he warns the threat to gun ownership is far from over.

Keene gives credit to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for refusing to advance President Obama’s choice of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court and for doing what was necessary to get Gorsuch confirmed.

“If Garland had won confirmation, that would have reversed the majority favoring the Second Amendment as defined by the founders and as ratified by the Supreme Court in the Heller decision some years ago as an individual right to keep and bear arms,” Keene told WND and Radio America.

“Preventing the Garland confirmation and replacing Antonin Scalia with Justice Gorsuch is a tremendous victory for America’s gun owners, for believers in freedom and for the Second Amendment,” he said.


Keene, who is now opinion editor at the Washington Times and co-author of “Shall Not be Infringed,” firmly believes that the gun issue and the Supreme Court vacancy was a big reason for President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton and for winning over voters in swing states who had supported Democrats in the past.

But Keene is quick to warn Second Amendment supporters that the fight is not over.

“It does not mean that gun owners can be comfortable in terms of what might happen during the course of the next year or so at the Supreme Court level because it simply re-establishes the majority that existed with Scalia on the court, a very shaky majority,” Keene said.

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Another major threat, he said, comes from Obama’s handiwork in signing on to the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. Even without Senate ratification, Keene said the agreement puts pressure on the U.S. to violate its own Constitution.

“Even if it’s not ratified, under international law, a nation is supposedly prohibited from acting contrary to the spirit and letter of a treaty, even though it has not been ratified through processes within the country itself,” he explained.

The U.S. can ignore the treaty, but Keene is urging decisive action against it.

“It really needs to be killed,” Keene said. “There are two ways to do that. One, the president of the United States has the authority to withdraw this nation’s signature from the treaty. I hope that President Trump will consider doing that. The other way to handle it is for the Senate to bring it up and put a stake through its heart.”

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Keene said the treaty is just an international version of the gun restrictions that many Democrats want to impose here in the U.S.

“They want bans on so-called assault weapons that are, in fact, semi-automatic weapons rather than real assault weapons,” Keene said. “They want limits on magazines. They want all the things that Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wanted here.”

Despite the wind being at the back of gun-rights advocates, Keene said his side must realize that gun-control supporters are never going to to give up.

“They actually believe that if they snap their fingers and if firearms would disappear, there’d no longer be burglaries. There’d no longer be robberies. We’d all live in peace ,and I assume unicorns would dance across the horizon,” he said. “It’s almost a religious fervor with which they go after firearms ownership.”

And Keene said pro-Second Amendment Americans must be equally relentless in protecting their constitutional rights.

“Like most freedoms, this is a freedom that if you don’t stand up for it and if you aren’t wiling to defend it and if you’re not vigilant, it’s liable to disappear on you,” he said.

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You and I and Clinton know an effort to ban guns wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell. That's playing to the audience, not an earnest proposal. When I said "supercedes..." I was assuming ordinary circumstances. If an Idi Amin came to power, "ordinary" would be out the window; but I think it's extraordinarily paranoid to assume that will happen. In any event, if a dictator controlled our armed forces, resistance would at best result in a protracted and bloody guerilla war. Think Syria here.

If brains were made of dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your cap off. The main body of the Constitution is divided into seven 'Articles'. Each 'Article' covers a different government function. To wit:

Article I – The Legislative Branch.
Article II – The Executive Branch.
Article III – The Judicial Branch.
Article IV – The States.
Article V – Amendment.
Article VI – Debts, Supremacy, Oaths.
Article VII – Ratification.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are referred to as the 'Bill of Rights', boy, and outline specific prohibitions to the Federal government. Here's a link to a handy summary specifically defined for the intellectually challenged among us, such as you:

http://www.dummies.com/education/politics-government/the-7-articles-of-the-us-constitution/

And because it is glaringly obvious that you have never taken the time to peruse the founding document of the United States of America, here's a copy:

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-110hdoc50/pdf/CDOC-110hdoc50.pdf

I suggest you put it somewhere you can access it at a moment's notice, to help you understand just how ridiculous your ideas of what your government is and is not empowered to do really are. Oh, and read the preface, it will help you to avoid the kind of glaring errors you just committed here.