Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Why Americans Need Weapons Of War ...and have their right to them expressly secured by the US Constitution. FRANKLY, THE PARENTS BEING PREVENTED from rushing to the aid of their children in Robb Elementary School the week before last, as we all saw afterwards in horrifying cell-phone videos, should have shot or clubbed their way through the cops who stood in their path. Every cop who participated in that blockade should be tried as an accessory to murder, having effectively helped the killer proceed with his crimes unimpeded. Those are harsh words. But children are dead who needn't be, and as a consequence of a grossly-corrupt distortion of the proper purpose and legitimate authority of government. Unsurprisingly, the assisted murders of those children and school staff in Uvalde, Texas, are now being exploited by despicable enemies of the rule of law in an effort to further leverage the widespread misunderstanding of the proper purpose and legitimate authority of government that contributed to last week's tragedy. The object is to use the Uvalde shootings as a justification for a renewed assault on the Second Amendment. If successful, this pernicious effort will eventually accomplish a tragedy of far greater scope, as the ghosts of a few 100 million disarmed victims of government murder during the 20th century will attest. Let me offer a few points that might help rein in this madness... I'LL START WITH THE FACT that Constitutions-- federal or state-- are not entrusted for their implementation, interpretation or enforcement to officials elected or appointed to the offices they authorize. Indeed, it is quite the opposite. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution (and corresponding provisions in state Constitutions), for instance, says that the right of the people to keep and bears arms shall not be infringed. There is no allowance within the provision for legislative or judicial (much less executive) determination of what this means and how, and to what degree, the proscription of infringement is to be honored. There CAN'T BE any such allowance, nor can one be assumed or implied. The amendment's proscription, after all, is AGAINST government officials. Constitutions are the law LAID UPON government officials. They are not merely directives as to what government officials should do or should refrain from doing. "In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution." -Thomas Jefferson Continued at https://losthorizons.com/N/196.htm#2