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Comment by:
PHORTO
(6/11/2021)
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Former State Rep. Kelly (D-Columbia), a former Boone County circuit judge, says HB 85 is unconstitutional, and that the “sponsors know it is unconstitutional. It has one purpose, to pander to the gun guys,” Kelly says.
No it isn't.
This trope is repeated over and over again, omitting a critical phrase, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States that shall be made in Pursuance thereof." Only laws that comport with constitutionally enumerated powers and proscriptions are the supreme law of the land. Federal laws that exceed those limitations are not, and state law has supremacy, per the 10th Amendment. |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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