Borrowed this from Scott, at TFG, from a post he did on the Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling on handgun ownership. He reminds that the last time these wheezers did a constitutional ruling, they decided the government could take your house, at whim, with impunity. This time, however, if they get confiscatory, it’s going to be altogether different. The flag above is from the opening shot, as it were, of the litle dustup known as the Texas Revolution. It worked then, and I truly suspect, it could work now. On the other hand, and here I may diverge from Scott, I do think the government has the precedent and the right (indeed, the duty) to regulate the ownership of things like fully-automatic rifles and machine guns. They don’t belong in private hands. Handguns, however, licensed and more ubiquitous than they are today, could have ameliorated, if not wholly prevented, yesterday’s tragedy in Omaha, for instance. Otherwise, we will all be sheep at the mercy of any lunatic seeking his fifteen minutes of media fame.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 