I recently watched a YouTube video from one of the USCCA lawyers, but, as of this writing, I cannot locate it again. I apologize. It was very informative about many legal technical questions raised by various anti-gun arguments.
The pea and nutshell legal
shuffling of the "Feinstein argument" belies the common sense of the
Second Amendment, especially with regard to any implication of the meaning of
"common use" restrictions, as there are no "common use" conditions stated in our
Constitution. The commonly understood cause for our Second Amendment was for common citizens to be able to protect themselves from any and every tyrannical government, including our own if it became tyrannical. That is clear in the ancillary writings of our Founding Fathers.
For decades, until my arthritis
got too bad, I carried a Sig Sauer P226 9mm semi-auto handgun on my person, for
protection. I, personally, used the OEM 15, as well as18 and 20, round
magazines in that gun. Those were my daily-carry ammo supply in my
self-protection firearm. I used both OEM and aftermarket magazines, commonly, in
that gun, all the time, on my person, as well as during practice at the range.
Even though I never had to fire even one round of ammunition from those gun and
magazine combinations in any actual defense of self or others, I was always
prepared to do so if it had been necessary. THAT was common use, in every reasonable and socially responsible sense of the word.
The illogical and
unconstitutional legal word salads made by anti-gun lawyers and politicians
deny the underlying truth of such common practical use by law-abiding citizens. Those legal
word salads attack the meaning of words instead of accepting the common usage
of words, and thereby, the anti-gun lawyers and politicians seek to make
language itself meaningless. Their attempts to destroy the meaning of common
language, confuse undiscerning courtrooms and citizens. Such verbiage, also, seeks to destroy
common understanding between members of society. By those obfuscations, the anti-gun crowd condemns our society to devolve into primitive combative anti-social behaviors, as we
see happening across our society, today.
It is an unholy thing that the Feinstein Argument sets up the requirement that common use of firearms should
mean that firearms owners and bearers must actually pull the trigger and actively shoot
other human beings as a requisite proof of common use of any politically or
"legally" questioned firearm configuration or design.
Feinstein's required shooting of human beings as proof of common use is an
immoral and an insane view of the purpose of our Constitution and our Second
Amendment rights.
We must remember that many of
those who are trying to disarm law-abiding citizens of the USA have delusions about the
function and availability of police forces, plus, many of the wealthier
anti-gun people are able to hire their own private personal armed guards or
armed services to protect themselves. But, those elitists do not want us, the
common citizens, to be able to arm or defend ourselves with weapons of our own
choosing, as was affirmed, stated, and implied in the SCOTUS Dred Scott
decision. The HULU Channel has a current program about serial killers that crisscross our continent, and the conclusion of the program states that our US justice system and policing are out of control, unable to protect U.S. citizens from harm and scarcely able to deal with a fraction of the violent crime attacks on our citizens. Honest appraisal of our criminal and justice systems must come to the logical conclusion that each and every citizen must be willing to arm ourselves and band together in defense of self, family, and our neighborhoods, IF we want to keep the local peace. The police departments are there to help pick up the pieces and begin the process of sorting out the legal implications of self-defense situations. There shall never be enough police to keep every evildoer from doing evil. Our communities must be self-policing, especially since FBI statistics have shown that 3/4 of all violent crimes against persons are NOT committed with firearms of any kind.
Many years ago, in the Dred Scott case, SCOTUS morally,
biblically, socially, and constitutionally misjudged the humanity of the man
incorrectly. Yet, the decision of the Court did correctly understand and apply
the Second Amendment in that case: for, as SCOTUS stated, IF they had
adjudicated him to be a human being, as they should have done, he would then have been wholly entitled
under our U.S. Constitution to all constitutional rights and would have been
recognized as having the natural right to keep and bear arms of any kind,
anywhere he chose, at any time, within these United States of America. The Sullivan Law of N.Y., the FDR establishment of anti-gun laws, and all anti-gun laws, ATF rulings, and Executive Orders have been in egregious violation of our Constitution. With that governmental infringement on our natural right to bear arms for self-defense against tyranny, our own government and self-serving anti-social groups have also infringed upon our rights to responsible free speech and freedom of religion.
Our Nation is sinking fast into
the oblivion of history. We must return to God's Word, the Bible, and to the
plain language of our US Constitution.
In Jesus Christ,
Craig Szwed
Do we believe in God, AND that He keeps His Word, or not? Our true beliefs govern our actions, and our actions prove our beliefs. Our spiritual interest got us this far. Are we willing to seek out what God says about Himself and about His Word, within the whole Bible, comparing Scripture with Scripture?
William Chamberlin’s “Catalogue of English Bible
Translations”, 1991, lists hundreds of bible versions in the English language! …but God says that He keeps
His Word pure! Purity and confusion do not fit together. Do we want to find, know, and use God’s one true Bible in English, instead being
confused by hundreds of versions, transliterations, and paraphrases?
In English, after 400 years, God still keeps His pure Word in one Bible, the King James, not in the confusion of the hundreds of English versions.
If you are not sure about your relationship with God and His Word, who He is, or His plan of salvation, please seek His answers via these links.
God bless you to not forget God's warnings in Isaiah 66:1-2 and Revelation 22:18-19.
Do NOT take my word for what the above title asserts. Do your own research into what all these linked sources are saying about the issue. From Greenpeace to Bloomberg, everyone with any sense of realistic accounting and accountability is challenging the popular misconception of trying to balance atmospheric carbon by human means: fallacy of carbon neutrality - Google Search. In truth, they are fighting against God-created natural processes.
Furthermore, few proponents of human-driven climate change theories are willing to look seriously at how fossil fuels (gas, oil, and coal, which are carbon based) all were deposited beneath major areas of the world that have been under ice and permafrost for millenia. All those deposits of the alleged Carboniferous Era had to come from unimaginable volumes carbon-based living tissue: how did arctic fossil fuel deposits form - Google Search. Many modern entities recognize the existence of Arctic fossil fuel deposits, but most of them only look at the deposits from a uniformitarian or gradualistic evolutionary frame of reference. They do not want to believe that all the masses of carbon-based tissue were killed off and deposited at the same time, by cataclysm.
God says that He created the Earth and everything in it in seven days (Genesis). Throughout the Bible, God says that He shall make a short work of this current world and its systems, but, for now, He's letting the Earth and humanity run their present course, so that all sin shall be exposed for what it is and then dealt with in God's final Judgment. God's Word speaks of Creation and cataclysmic events that have followed Creation. Most cultures in the world have cataclysmic event stories that parallel the Bible's testimony. Given that God says that Noah and only seven other people got off the Ark, after the worldwide cataclysmic Flood, that explains the commonality of the stories' roots, despite the localized differences in details from culture to culture, locale to locale. What should greatly concern any thinking person is the commonality with what God says, not the deviations from what God says. Increasing numbers of modern scientists and critical thinkers, who used to be evolutionists and gradualists (Creation Research Society Quarterly, as well as many other similar groups), have recognized, for decades, the body of empirical evidence of fossil deposits, geological formations and processes, geophysical cataclysms, solar and celestial influences, over which humanity has zero control.
Most people usually don't like major change in their lives. We usually seek to maintain the status quo. That's a huge reason why people do not want to intelligently discuss the world that existed prior to the Ice Ages: our fleshly desires are at war with our human history and with geological history. We want what we want and we do not seem to care what self-delusion or lies we have to believe in order to think that we are not simply watching Earth history repeat or unwind itself.
The great irony of today's "politically correct" climate change panic is that most people seem too willing to take responsibility for things over which they have little or no control, like Divine or geological cataclysms that drive the carbon cycle that God created. But, those same folks are often totally unwilling to take responsibility for their own sinful actions that go directly against how God tells us to live and behave.
I am not saying that humanity has zero impact on our environment, but it is superficial compared to solar, astronomical, or geological events. What I'm saying is that people love to be allowed to keep practicing their own favorite sins and that most folks will look for self-justifying ways to accomplish their own sinful objectives. Given the distributions and densities of human populations, we can readily see that people congregate in self-serving clusters that have little or no regard for the environs about them. From Cain killing his brother Abel, throughout all the wars, including Russia's current imperialistic war against Ukraine, virtually every war has been fought to sinfully promote one group of people over another, or as retaliation for that having been done to some group of people. The premise and practice of Net Zero and Carbon Neutrality has taken warfare to another level, whereby one environmentally incontinent group raids other environmentally efficient groups, so that the inefficient gluttonous aggressor can claim to be neutral in its consumptive practices, and it gets approved in the name of political and environmental "correctness". The same is true of every other sin that we commit against God and against our fellow human beings. It's evil warring against that which is good.
My friend, no one can dodge the payday for their earthly behaviors, no matter how they try to hide behind someone else. God sees all and shall judge all. The only exception and escape, in all history, that shall ever be given to us, is that which has been already given to us by God Almighty in the Person of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Most of the people in this world, including modern politics and science, have little use for God's Christ, who volunteered His own body and blood to pay for our sin. While people try to play God with the climate, God calls us to repent of our sin and to honor the one-time sacrifice of Jesus Christ as He took our punishment upon Himself. Please repent of your sin and receive the living, risen Christ of God into your life, that you may receive life eternal and everlasting peace, no matter what happens to this planet or on it. God bless you to judge righteous judgment and to discern and choose, for yourself, good over evil.
God has come humbly among us, to call us to repentance and faith. When He walked and taught here some 2,000 years ago, some heard and followed Him, but many refused His counsel and invitation, though He was even as He claimed to be.
He was killed by the powers of the day at the behest of those who loved their sin more than they loved God, yet, He is coming again to avenge His people Israel who shall finally believe in Him and upon Him, as they finally repent and receive Him by faith. Then shall He fight for them directly, during the time of Jacob's Trouble, and redeem a remnant unto Himself.
Zechariah 12:9-14
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek
to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Be not as those who are too proud to repent.
Return unto the LORD GOD, now, and receive the ONLY promise of Life that He offers.
Zechariah 12:1-8
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.