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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
"EXPOSING THE AGENDA" EVENT IN LAS VEGAS - FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. Progressives will tell you that this is what makes America the Murder Capitol of Planet Earth. But we're not, and in this devastatingly effective Firewall, Bill Whittle shows why the center of Gun Nut Nation is in fact one of the safest places in the world.
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
Published on Jan 23, 2015
'Treasury' Says Debt Has Been 'Frozen' at $18,112,975,000,000
15 Weeks: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000
By Terence P. Jeffrey | June 30, 2015 | 10:06 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) - The portion of the federal debt that is subject to a legal limit set by Congress closed Friday, June 26, at $18,112,975,000,000, according to the latest Daily Treasury Statement, which was published at 4:00 p.m. on Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, President Barack Obama, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
That, according to the Treasury's statements, makes 15 straight weeks that the debt subject to the limit has been frozen at $18,112,975,000,000.
$18,112,975,000,000 is about $25 million below the current legal debt limit of $18,113,000,080,959.35.
The Daily Treasury Statement for March 13 was the first to show the federal debt subject to the limit closing the day at $18,112,975,000,000. Every Daily Treasury Statement since then has reported the same thing: the debt closing the day at $18,112,975,000,000.
Every Daily Treasury Statement since Monday, March 16, has reported the debt beginning and ending each day at $18,112,975,000,000.
Table III-C on the Daily Treasury Statement for June 26 says the debt began the month of June at $18,112,975,000,000, began the day of June 26 at $18,112,975,000,000, and closed the day of June 26 at $18,112,975,000,000.
A “debt issuance suspension period,” Lew said in his letter, was necessary because in 2014 Congress enacted legislation that “suspended” the debt limit until March 15 and then reinstated it on that date at whatever level the debt had reached by then.
“As you know, in February 2014, Congress passed the Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act, suspending the statutory debt limit through March 15, 2015,” Lew said in his March 13 letter. “Beginning on Monday, March 16, the outstanding debt of the United States will be at the statutory limit. In anticipation of reaching that date, Treasury has suspended until further notice the issue of State and Local Government Series securities, which count against the debt limit.”
State and Local Government Series securities, says the Congressional Research Service, are “customized securities available for state and local governments to hold proceeds of bond sales.” They are considered part of the federal government debt that is held by the “public.”
“Because Congress has not yet acted to raise the debt limit,” Lew said in his March 13 letter, “the Treasury Department will have to employ further extraordinary measures to continue to finance the government on a temporary basis. Therefore, beginning on March 16, I plan to declare a ‘debt issuance suspension period’ with respect to investment of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and also suspend the daily reinvestment of Treasury securities held by the Government Securities Investment Fund and the Federal Employees’ Retirement System Thrift Savings Plan.”
Lew informed Boehner that these same actions had been taken “during previous debt limit impasses.”
For example, as CNSNews.com reported, when Secretary Lew declared a debt issuance suspension period in 2013, the Treasury reported the debt subject to the limit was frozen at $16,699,396,000,000 for 150 days, running from mid-May to mid-October of that year.
The Treasury has posted Frequently Asked Question sheets that explain the actions the Treasury is taking during this “debt issuance suspension period” and their statutory basis.
“Under current law, if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that the issuance of obligations of the United States may not be made without exceeding the debt limit, a ‘debt issuance suspension period’ may be determined,” the Congressional Research Service said in a report published on March 27. “This determination gives the Treasury the authority to suspend investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Trust Fund, Postal Service Retiree Health Benefit Fund, and the Government Securities Investment Fund (G-Fund) of the Federal Thrift Savings Plan.
“In addition,” said CRS, “this gives Treasury the authority to prematurely redeem securities held by the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Trust Fund and Postal Service Retiree Health Benefit Fund.”
"The total federal debt consists of debt held by the public and intragovernmental debt," the CRS said in a report published in 2011. "Debt owed to the public represents borrowing from entities other than the federal government, and includes borrowing from state and local governments, the Federal Reserve System, and foreign central banks, as well as private investors in the United States.
"Intragovernmental debt," said CRS, "consists in debt owed by one part of the federal government to another, which are mostly held in trust funds."
The net effect of the Treasury’s actions is that although the publicly held debt of the government continues to fluctuate--as the Treasury redeems maturing debt held by the public and issues new debt held by the public—the overall debt subject to the limit set by Congress closes each business day at $18,112,975,000,000.
At the beginning of June, the debt held by the public was $13,052,706,000,000 and the intragovernmental debt was $5,100,145,000,000, according to the Daily Treasury Statement. By the close of business on June 26, the debt held by the public had increased by 18,125,000,000 to $13,070,831,000,000, and the intragovernmental debt had decreased by 18,275,000,000 to $5,081,870,000,000.
But on every business day of June--as on every business day for the last 15 straight weeks--the Treasury reported that the federal debt subject to the legal limit set by Congress closed the day at $18,112,975,000,000.
http://cnsnews.com/news/
POSSIBLE EMP IN TEXAS
POSSIBLE EMP IN TEXAS?
Some of us are aware of this being published in recent weeks, but we did not see the post or know of the source of this info. With that in mind I am posting the below:
Someone found the following post on their page this morning (June 10th) on Facebook. I have no way of knowing whether there is any truth to it but feel it is best to put it out there.
This is a short interview with Dale Lewis, the person who made the post. There is no real way to ascertain if this information is true. We are releasing it for your consideration.
We are fully aware that this may be a military psyop as part of Jade Helm. However, if it is true then there is reason to put the warning out there.
Published on Jun 12, 2015
Kerry Cassidy
Project Camelot
JADE HELM 15 not a drill
Alex Jones warns ‘JADE HELM 15 not a drill’ but rather a “cover for military occupation”
The Alex Jones Channel/YouTube
Jones: ‘Texas is pulling out of the Federal Reserve ahead of JADE HELM’
By Shepard AmbellasAUSTIN, Tex. (INTELLIHUB) — On Saturday, June 20, radio talk show host and alternative news figurehead Alex Jones released an “emergency alert” videocast on YouTube stating that the “elite are now evacuating” the United States ahead of Jade Helm 15, which Jones now says is not a drill.
“I want to just be clear. You need to listen extremely carefully to what I’m saying”, said Jones.
“It hit me this morning […] I wasn’t clearly recognizing the writing on the wall for what it is”. Jones stated that he received “two different calls […] by extremely prominent wealthy people” who asked him why he wasn’t leaving the U.S. “by October.”
“[…] you get so close to a problem when you are an expert that you kinda get blind.”
According to Jones the callers had “high-level inside […] and military connections” that are now “getting out of the United States.”
“I’m not here to scare you”, Jones said, pointing out how we “are in alarming times.”
“[…] Europe has began to plunge into the worst economic crisis since the 1920’s and 30’s this week and it’s barely in U.S. news and it gets worse.”
“[…] Central banks are having runs on them by governments for gold […] everybody’s got this bad feeling.”
“Why are some of the super wealthy preparing bug out locations?”, Jones asks, quoting a Zero Hedge article and others.
Jones continues to read other headlines from “this week” alone demonstrating that something is not right.
“There is a pile of gold in Manhattan and Texas wants it back”, Jones quotes Bloomberg.
“Texas is pulling its gold out of the private Federal Reserve and JADE HELM is coming up. They know which states aren’t going to go along, which state leaderships won’t go along with martial law. I thought JADE HELM was just a drill at first, I didn’t know why they freaked out so bad ahead of time. It’s the cover for military occupation of the Southwest and I have been told that by high-level military now.”
“I can’t even believe it’s actually happening […] it’s so epic.”
Jones also says that there is a “50 to 60 percent chance” that we will go to war with “Russia” in the near future.
https://www.intellihub.com/alex-jones-warns-jade-helm-15-not-a-drill-but-rather-a-cover-for-military-occupation/
Native Americans Say “No” to Gay Marriage
NATIVE AMERICANS SAY "NO" TO GAY MARRIAGE
By Russ Hepler
In the cultural battle over “same-sex” marriage, one of the American groups overlooked in the debate is the Native American population. Organized along ancestral tribes, these groups form a diverse, yet significant portion of the U.S. population.
Native American tribal leaders have discussed the issue of “same-sex” marriage at length over the past several years as the debate has raged in America.
Where many of them have come out on the matter is sure to make liberals howl.
CNS News reports:
Tribal laws of the two largest Native American tribes in the United States prohibit gay marriage, as do the laws of nine other smaller tribes.It will not matter what the Supreme Court decides on “same-sex” marriage. These tribes have their own sovereignty as CNS News reveals:
The Navajo and Cherokee Nations, the first and second largest tribes respectively, together have about 600,000 members. The nine smaller tribes that ban gay marriage have another 350,000 members. These tribes all either define marriage as between a man and a woman or explicitly prohibit same-sex marriage, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Since 2011, six of the eleven tribes revisited and upheld their preexisting legal definitions of marriage as between a man and a woman, AP researchers found.
Due to their status as sovereign nations, these 11 tribes will not need to change their marriage laws, which govern nearly one million tribal members, even if the Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage later this month.
If the court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling determines that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Native American bans on gay marriage will remain in effect because federally-recognized tribes have the right to establish their own laws and are not subject to the U.S. Constitution.
These Native American tribes have thought through this issue and their statements are clear, concise, and legally binding as CNS News explains:
For example, the Cherokee Nation Marriage and Family Protection Act of 2004 defines marriage as “a civil contract between one man and one woman” and states that “no marriage shall be contracted…between parties of the same gender.”It is doubtful such challenges could be successful. But, that may not stop these extremist radicals from trying to foist their “gender confusion” onto Native Americans as well.
Title 6 of Chickasaw tribal law states that “a marriage between persons of the same gender performed in any jurisdiction shall not be recognized as valid and binding in the Chickasaw Nation.” However, the law notes that it does not prohibit “members of the same sex from entering written contracts” with one another.
Many other tribes remain neutral, AP reports, neither taking steps to officially recognize gay marriage nor changing the wording of their marriage laws to include or preclude recognition of same-sex couples.
However, the legal language for some of these neutral tribes makes reference to heterosexual couples by use of such phrases as “husband and wife,” “a man and a woman,” and “unmarried male and…unmarried female.”
For example, the Northern Cheyenne Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act defines marriage as “a personal relationship between a man and a woman arising out of a civil contract to which the consent of the parties is essential,” in which spouses “take each other as husband and wife.”
To date, such laws have not been applied to same-sex couples.
The question, at this point, is whether homosexual rights bullies will eventually set their sites on these Native American tribes as they have done to various Christian businesses around the nation.
Native Americans have endured far worse in their past and survived. They will probably overcome this threat to their way of life as well.
Helium LEAKING from massive earthquake fault in LA
Helium is LEAKING from massive earthquake fault in LA raising fears 'big one' could be more devastating than thought
- Indicates Newport-Inglewood fault more important than previously thought
- Risk in the next 30 years of 'big one' increased from about 4.7% to 7.0%
- However, study says risk of smaller quakes has actually gone down
Published: 17:15 EST, 29 June 2015 | Updated: 22:02 EST, 29 June 2015
A huge fault in the Earth's crust near Los Angeles is leaking helium, researchers have found.
They say the unexpected find sheds new light on the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin.
It reveals the fault is far deeper than previously thought, and a quake would be far more devastating.
It follows a report from the U.S. Geological Survey has warned the risk of 'the big one' hitting California has increased dramatically.
California Earthquake - Collapse of the San Andreas
NEWPORT-INGLEWOOD FAULT
The Newport–Inglewood Fault extends for 75 kilometers (47 mi) from Culver City southeast to Newport Beach at which point the fault trends east-southeast into the Pacific Ocean.
The fault can be seen on the Earth's surface as line of hills extending from Signal Hill to Culver City.
The fault has a slip rate of approximately 0.6 millimeter/year (0.02 in/year) and is predicted to be capable of a 6.0–7.4 magnitude earthquake on the moment magnitude scale.
The fault was first identified after a 4.9 magnitude quake struck near Inglewood, California on June 21, 1920.
The fault can be seen on the Earth's surface as line of hills extending from Signal Hill to Culver City.
The fault has a slip rate of approximately 0.6 millimeter/year (0.02 in/year) and is predicted to be capable of a 6.0–7.4 magnitude earthquake on the moment magnitude scale.
The fault was first identified after a 4.9 magnitude quake struck near Inglewood, California on June 21, 1920.
He claims the results show that the Newport-Inglewood fault is deeper than scientists previously thought.
Using samples of casing gas from two dozen oil wells ranging from LA's Westside to Newport Beach in Orange County, Boles discovered that more than one-third of the sites show evidence of high levels of helium-3 (3He).
'The results are unexpected for the area, because the LA Basin is different from where most mantle helium anomalies occur,' said Boles, professor emeritus in UCSB's Department of Earth Science.
'The Newport-Inglewood fault appears to sit on a 30-million-year-old subduction zone, so it is surprising that it maintains a significant pathway through the crust.'
Considered primordial, 3He is a vestige of the Big Bang, and its only terrestrial source is the mantle.
Boles's findings appear in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed), an electronic journal of the American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society.
When Boles and his co-authors analyzed the 24 gas samples, they found that high levels of 3He inversely correlate with carbon dioxide (CO2), which Boles noted acts as a carrier gas for 3He.
An analysis showed that the CO2 was also from the mantle, confirming leakage from deep inside the Earth.
Blueschist found at the bottom of nearby deep wells indicates that the Newport-Inglewood fault is an ancient subduction zone - where two tectonic plates collide - even though its location is more than 40 miles west of the current plate boundary of the San Andreas Fault System.
Found 20 miles down, blueschist is a metamorphic rock only revealed when regurgitated to the surface via geologic upheaval.
'Then somehow that intersection jumped clear over to the present San Andreas Fault, although how this occurred is really not known.
'This paper shows that the mantle is leaking more at the Newport-Inglewood fault zone than at the San Andreas Fault, which is a new discovery.'
The study's findings contradict a scientific hypothesis that supports the existence of a major décollement — a low-angle thrust fault — below the surface of the LA Basin.
'We show that the Newport-Inglewood fault is not only deep-seated but also directly or indirectly connected with the mantle,' Boles said.
The cylinders Jim Boles used to gather casing gas samples from oil wells along the Newport-Inglewood fault, where he found evidence of helium-3.
'Our findings indicate that the Newport-Inglewood fault is a lot more important than previously thought, but time will tell what the true importance of all this is.'
Researchers analysed the latest data from the state's complex system of active geological faults, as well as new methods for translating these data into earthquake likelihoods.
The estimate for the likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% to about 7.0%, they say.
THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT
The San Andreas system in Northern California consists of five major branches with an overall length of about 1,25O miles.
Experts say there is a 99 percent chance of a magnitude-6.7 earthquake or larger in the next 30 years in California because of the number of fault lines in the region.
The San Andreas Fault that forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate is the biggest.
Experts say there is a 99 percent chance of a magnitude-6.7 earthquake or larger in the next 30 years in California because of the number of fault lines in the region.
The San Andreas Fault that forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate is the biggest.
'But we know that tectonic forces are continually tightening the springs of the San Andreas fault system, making big quakes inevitable.
'The UCERF3 model provides our leaders and the public with improved information about what to expect, so that we can better prepare.'
The Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, or UCERF3, improves upon previous models by incorporating the latest data on the state's complex system of active geological faults, as well as new methods for translating these data into earthquake likelihoods.
The study confirms many previous findings, sheds new light on how the future earthquakes will likely be distributed across the state and estimates how big those earthquakes might be.
Compared to the previous assessment issued in 2008, UCERF2, the estimated rate of earthquakes around magnitude 6.7, the size of the destructive 1994 Northridge earthquake, has gone down by about 30 percent.
The expected frequency of such events statewide has dropped from an average of one per 4.8 years to about one per 6.3 years.
However, in the new study, the estimate for the likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% for UCERF2 to about 7.0% for UCERF3.
'The new likelihoods are due to the inclusion of possible multi-fault ruptures, where earthquakes are no longer confined to separate, individual faults, but can occasionally rupture multiple faults simultaneously,' said lead author and USGS scientist Ned Field.
THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE
The M 7.8 San Francisco earthquake of 19O6 struck the coast at 5.12 am on 18 April 18. Devastating fires lasting several days broke out in the city.
As a result about 3,OOO people died and over 8O percent of San Francisco was destroyed.
The earthquake and resulting fire are remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the US alongside the Galveston Hurricane of 19OO and Hurricane Katrina in 2OO5.
As a result about 3,OOO people died and over 8O percent of San Francisco was destroyed.
The earthquake and resulting fire are remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the US alongside the Galveston Hurricane of 19OO and Hurricane Katrina in 2OO5.
People walk through the rubble following an earthquake in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. On April 17, 1906, San Francisco was cosmopolitan enough to host Enrico Caruso in 'Carmen' and so financially flushed it ranked fourth among American cities in raising money to help victims of a volcano in Italy. A day later, San Francisco was pleading for help itself after a giant earthquake struck along the San Andreas fault.
Worst Earthquake in 25 years Rocks California
Worst Earthquake in 25 years Rocks California
This is a significant advancement in terms of representing a broader range of earthquakes throughout California's complex fault system.'
Two kinds of scientific models are used to inform decisions of how to safeguard against earthquake losses: an Earthquake Rupture Forecast, which indicates where and when the Earth might slip along the state's many faults, and a Ground Motion Prediction model, which estimates the ground shaking given one of the fault ruptures.
The UCERF3 model is of the first kind, and is the latest earthquake-rupture forecast for California. It was developed and reviewed by dozens of leading scientific experts from the fields of seismology, geology, geodesy, paleoseismology, earthquake physics and earthquake engineering.
Lucy Jones, a USGS seismologist and Los angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's adviser on earthquakes, tweeted Tuesday about the randomness of big quakes.
'This new science doesn't change the bottom line for emergency managers,' she wrote.
'Which one happens in our lifetimes is a random subset.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Great news!!! This is a MUST READ!!! gun control--interesting perspective
This is great. If SCOTUS legalized Sodomy then the same goes for concealed carry. This is a MUST READ!!!
Black's 4th:
Subject: re: gun control--interesting perspective
Who
would have thought that the recent supreme court decision on sodomite
marriage could dramatically affect a multitude of state gun laws,
particularly concealed carry.
I cut and pasted this article below:
SCOTUS same-sex marriage decision may have just legalized the concealed carry of loaded firearms across all 50 states, nullifying gun laws everywhere
Monday, June 29, 2015by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: SCOTUS, gun laws, same-sex marriage
(NaturalNews)
The legal argument of gay marriage proponents is that because gay
marriage is legal in a majority of states, that "right" cannot be
infringed by the remaining states which opposed gay marriage. The U.S.
Supreme Court, in granting this new, nationwide right to gay marriage,
cited the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, Section 1, which
states:
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The actual ruling text of the SCOTUS decision makes it clear that its "equal protection" logic would apply universally to concealed carry gun rights which already exist in a majority of states:
(1) The fundamental liberties protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices defining personal identity and beliefs... When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution's central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed. Applying these tenets, the Court has long held the right to marry is protected by the Constitution.
Similarly, the right to keep and bear arms has also long been protected by the Constitution and affirmed in multiple Supreme Court decisions, as early as last year. "In District of Columbia v Heller (2008) -- the SCOTUS ruled that the 2nd Amendment rights were 'fundamental' in and of themselves as well as 'fundamental to the Nation's scheme of ordered liberty'" writes Hawkins at Breitbart.com.
If this right to keep and bear arms (and to carry concealed firearms) is already recognized in some states, then by the Supreme Court's own precedent on gay marriage, that right cannot be denied in ANY state!
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The actual ruling text of the SCOTUS decision makes it clear that its "equal protection" logic would apply universally to concealed carry gun rights which already exist in a majority of states:
(1) The fundamental liberties protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices defining personal identity and beliefs... When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution's central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed. Applying these tenets, the Court has long held the right to marry is protected by the Constitution.
Similarly, the right to keep and bear arms has also long been protected by the Constitution and affirmed in multiple Supreme Court decisions, as early as last year. "In District of Columbia v Heller (2008) -- the SCOTUS ruled that the 2nd Amendment rights were 'fundamental' in and of themselves as well as 'fundamental to the Nation's scheme of ordered liberty'" writes Hawkins at Breitbart.com.
If this right to keep and bear arms (and to carry concealed firearms) is already recognized in some states, then by the Supreme Court's own precedent on gay marriage, that right cannot be denied in ANY state!
SCOTUS may have nullified gun control laws by legalizing gay marriage
The Supreme Court, in other words, appears to have just nullified gun control laws all across America.
As Bob Owens writes on BearingArms.com, "By using the Constitution in such a manner, the Court argues that the Due Process Clause extends 'certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy' accepted in a majority of states across the state lines of a handful of states that still banned the practice. The vast majority of states are 'shall issue' on the matter of issuing concealed carry permits, and enjoy reciprocity with a large number of other states."
He continues:
I'll be driving through the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York in several weeks, places that until yesterday I did not have a legal right to concealed carry. As of today, with this decision, it would seem that these states and the District must honor my concealed carry permit, or violate my constitutional rights under the 14th and Second Amendment.
AWR Hawkins, writing for Breitbart.com, adds:
When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that every state must recognize same sex marriages, they used a basis for judgement that will not easily stop at same sex marriage. In fact, it is a basis for judgement that should offer itself to national reciprocity of concealed carry permits and permit holders.
As Bob Owens writes on BearingArms.com, "By using the Constitution in such a manner, the Court argues that the Due Process Clause extends 'certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy' accepted in a majority of states across the state lines of a handful of states that still banned the practice. The vast majority of states are 'shall issue' on the matter of issuing concealed carry permits, and enjoy reciprocity with a large number of other states."
He continues:
I'll be driving through the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York in several weeks, places that until yesterday I did not have a legal right to concealed carry. As of today, with this decision, it would seem that these states and the District must honor my concealed carry permit, or violate my constitutional rights under the 14th and Second Amendment.
AWR Hawkins, writing for Breitbart.com, adds:
When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that every state must recognize same sex marriages, they used a basis for judgement that will not easily stop at same sex marriage. In fact, it is a basis for judgement that should offer itself to national reciprocity of concealed carry permits and permit holders.
"Equal protection" must now apply to all things, not just gay marriage
The
fascinating part of the SCOTUS decision on gay marriage is that it sets
a precedent of a principled interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment
which must now be applied to everything.
The Supreme Court, in other words, just made the argument for nullifying most gun control laws across America. As explained again by Bob Owens in another article on BearingArms.com:
...[I]f there is any intellectual and logical consistency in the Supreme Court's arguments at all, the 'due process' argument must be applied as equally to state and local gun laws, sweeping them aside entirely, and reaffirming the clear command in the Second Amendment that, '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.'
All, state and local on concealed and open carry would seem to be invalidated, and citizens should be allowed to carry firearms, either openly or concealed, anywhere they want to go.
Dare the Court dare claim that the 14th Amendment's due process clause only applies in specific and narrow instances?
That's the thing about court decisions, you see: we can't just pick and choose where they apply. A powerful new principle of "equal protection" must now be interpreted across all issues, not just the narrow issue of same-sex marriage.
As Marc Greendorfer explains in his amicus brief to the court:
One day, the Court will have to explain how sweeping restrictions on every aspect of firearms ownership and use can be upheld yet traditional and long-standing regulations on marriage cannot be tolerated in any form or in any jurisdiction.
In other words, if the Court is to have any logical consistency at all, it will have no choice but to declare nearly all gun control laws nationwide to be null and void, in precisely the same way it just declared all "marriage control" laws to be null and void. After all, "equal protection" must be equal, or it has no meaning at all (and the Supreme Court itself becomes a total joke).
The Supreme Court, in other words, just made the argument for nullifying most gun control laws across America. As explained again by Bob Owens in another article on BearingArms.com:
...[I]f there is any intellectual and logical consistency in the Supreme Court's arguments at all, the 'due process' argument must be applied as equally to state and local gun laws, sweeping them aside entirely, and reaffirming the clear command in the Second Amendment that, '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.'
All, state and local on concealed and open carry would seem to be invalidated, and citizens should be allowed to carry firearms, either openly or concealed, anywhere they want to go.
Dare the Court dare claim that the 14th Amendment's due process clause only applies in specific and narrow instances?
That's the thing about court decisions, you see: we can't just pick and choose where they apply. A powerful new principle of "equal protection" must now be interpreted across all issues, not just the narrow issue of same-sex marriage.
As Marc Greendorfer explains in his amicus brief to the court:
One day, the Court will have to explain how sweeping restrictions on every aspect of firearms ownership and use can be upheld yet traditional and long-standing regulations on marriage cannot be tolerated in any form or in any jurisdiction.
In other words, if the Court is to have any logical consistency at all, it will have no choice but to declare nearly all gun control laws nationwide to be null and void, in precisely the same way it just declared all "marriage control" laws to be null and void. After all, "equal protection" must be equal, or it has no meaning at all (and the Supreme Court itself becomes a total joke).
That's how freedom works: It's not just freedom for YOUR favorite issues, but freedom for other issues, too
You
can't discriminate against people based on their personal beliefs, you
see. So if gay couples' right to be married must be universally
recognized across all states, then gun owners' right to carry firearms
must also be universally recognized across all states. That's the way
freedom works: once a principle is affirmed and set into the history of
interpretation of law, it must be applied universally.
I can already see the comedic bumper stickers from all this: IF YOU GET TO MARRY, WE GET TO CARRY!
In essence, the U.S. Supreme Court just handed the NRA the very argument it might now use to nullify gun restriction laws everywhere. The NRA merely needs to file suit in a lower court, cite the Obergefall decision, and kick the lawsuit all the way back up the chain to SCOTUS. There, the Court must decide in a manner consistent with the same-sex marriage "rights," or else it will cease to carry any real authority at all.
The realization of all this, of course, will drive many of the same-sex marriage lobbyists absolutely insane. They did not see this unintended consequence of "equal protection" being applied to other topics. But that's how equality actually works, isn't it? Equality means the principle is equally applied to other contexts.
I can already see the comedic bumper stickers from all this: IF YOU GET TO MARRY, WE GET TO CARRY!
In essence, the U.S. Supreme Court just handed the NRA the very argument it might now use to nullify gun restriction laws everywhere. The NRA merely needs to file suit in a lower court, cite the Obergefall decision, and kick the lawsuit all the way back up the chain to SCOTUS. There, the Court must decide in a manner consistent with the same-sex marriage "rights," or else it will cease to carry any real authority at all.
The realization of all this, of course, will drive many of the same-sex marriage lobbyists absolutely insane. They did not see this unintended consequence of "equal protection" being applied to other topics. But that's how equality actually works, isn't it? Equality means the principle is equally applied to other contexts.
Gay gun rights advocates are no doubt thrilled with this realization
You
might be surprised, by the way, to learn that there is a group of gay
gun rights advocates who must now be double-thrilled to learn the
implications of all this. The group is called the Pink Pistols, and this list of local chapters shows
they have members all across the nation, from New York to Texas. Their
slogan? "Armed gays don't get bashed." Gotta love it!
Anyone who believes in universal freedom, not selective freedom, should support both the rights of people to be gay as well as be armed for self defense. If you happen to both gay and armed, check out the Pink Pistols.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050237_SCOTUS_gun_laws_same-sex_marriage.html#ixzz3eZSp01Rg
Anyone who believes in universal freedom, not selective freedom, should support both the rights of people to be gay as well as be armed for self defense. If you happen to both gay and armed, check out the Pink Pistols.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050237_SCOTUS_gun_laws_same-sex_marriage.html#ixzz3eZSp01Rg
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