Is Hillary Lying, Suffering From Brain Damage, Or Both?

by Bob Livingston 
During a CNN town hall meeting Tuesday, Hillary Clinton made quite clear her view of the Constitution in general, the 1^st and 2^nd Amendments in particular, and that she, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, views American gun owners as terrorists seeking to do harm on other Americans.
When asked about a ban on so-called assault weapons and extended magazines, she said:

"We cannot let a minority of people — and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people — hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people… We’re going to have to do a better job protecting the vast majority of our citizens, including our children, from that very, very, very small group that is unfortunately prone to violence and now with automatic weapons can wreak so much more violence than they ever could have before."

 

First, Clinton’s “minority of people” is at least 47 percent of American adults, according to a Gallup survey. But that survey counted people who admitted to a stranger they had a gun on their property. The actual number of gun owners is likely higher: No rational person should admit to a stranger they own a gun, especially under the current anti-gun regime.

Second, Clinton’s implication that Americans are gunning down people with “automatic weapons” is mendacious. Under the Firearm Owners Protection Act, fully automatic weapons are restricted to Federal Firearms License holders or those who have paid a tax to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive and have undergone an extensive background check. And those weapons are registered.
Third, as is typical of a statist, Clinton believes that the only viewpoints that should be help are those acceptable to the state. Other viewpoints — those contrary to established orthodoxy — should be purged from public consciousness.
The Founding Fathers knew quite well what they were doing when they wrote the 2^nd Amendment, and it was written to protect Americans from people like Clinton. During debate on the Amendment, Elbridge Gerry said: “What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Now, it must be evident, that, under this provision, together with their other powers, Congress could take such measures with respect to a militia, as to make a standing army necessary. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”

And who was the militia? During the Virginia Ratifying Convention, George Mason understood it to “consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.” In another statement, Mason said, “Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”
Both North Carolina and Virginia proposed that “the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained in arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state,; that standing armies in times of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided…”
Pennsylvania proposed “That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and their own state, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people or any of them, unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals…”

Maryland provided a definition of the militia as “all men, able to bear arms” and wanted the militia to be subject to martial law only “in time of war, invasion, or rebellion.”
All the Founders understood what the 2^nd Amendment meant, and the only significant debate was over whether a “conscientious objector” clause should be inserted for those with “religious scruples” to avoid bearing arms.
Fewer than half of 1 percent of Americans has ever shot anyone. And contrary to what gun-grabbing alarmists are telling you, the number of people killed with firearms continues a decline that has been ongoing since the Assault Weapons Ban expired.
Either Clinton knows this and is simply lying, or her fall damaged her brain so that rational thought is no longer among her abilities. Or, more likely, given the week she’s had in her 2016 campaign kickoff/book tour, it’s a combination of the two.
Source: The Founding Fathers Guide To The Constitution, by Brion McClanahan