NRA Says Sotomayor Is Antigun

It never ceases to amaze me how little our own citizens know of our history and our Constitution. For example, I offer the comment above by Mike of MI. The reason for the Second Amendment is because neither the States, nor the federal government, had standing armies. However, a pioneer people are always armed. Therefore, whenever the government, be it state of federal, needed to defend the country a call to arms was issued. Any able bodied man with a gun was expected to answer the call. The Second Amendment had nothing to do with preparing for war against the US government. Furthermore, all American citizens currently share one President, Mr. Obama. He is no more a liberal's president than he is a conservative's president. To suggest otherwise, is treason (the only crime mentioned by name in the US Constitution).As for "socialized" medicine, here's a newsflash: "We already have it." Its called the Emergency Room. Any person paying health insurance premiums are paying more to cover the cost of the uninsured using the emergency room as their primary care physician. We all pay the bill anyway, so why not do it more efficiently and with less cost? That isn't socialism, its good asset management. This is just a style note for Mike...before you call someone else "stupid" and "ignorant" you might want to consult spell check.

Calvin Campbell of OK 5:06PM July 16, 2009

The warning from the NRA regarding Sotomayor was sober and precise, and carefully avoided making a premature judgement. Senators who support gun-rights would be wise to heed that warning.

But a note to commenter "Dorfy" from SC (If that really is your name). In the time you took to type your amazingly fact free screed you could have taken the time to educate yourself at least a little on the issue. How strange the world must seem from your upside down point of view.

The NRA is an instrument of it's four million dues paying members, which exists to preserve the 2nd Amendment -- a part of the Bill of Rights. Unlike anti-gun advocacy groups like the VPC, which exist only because they receive a handout from the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar endowed charity. Anti-gun groups are the real extremists: who trash the constitution, support any anti-gun law no matter how extreme and unconstitutional, and who condemn armed self-defense as vigilantism.

Brad of CA 12:20AM July 09, 2009

Incorporating the Second Amendment to apply it against the states would be to invert the amendment’s original purpose. That purpose was to prevent federal elimination of the militia, which the states had created to meet their own security needs.

Far from supporting the original purpose, incorporation proposes a new and contradictory one – to prevent the states from passing firearm legislation they deem necessary for public security.

The Second Amendment would become the Bill of Rights' first flip-flop amendment.

Leif Rakur of CA 1:39PM July 08, 2009

The NRA continues to feed its image problem with serious gun rights activists by avoiding the obvious.

After doing everything it could to first sabotage, then co-opt, then join the Heller case -- all unsuccesfully we are fortunate to note -- it refuses to state something quite simple:

Sotomayor does NOT even understand the plain words of the Constitution.

How can we continue to seat such Justices?

Herb Mart of TX 4:39AM July 08, 2009