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Well, now there is no doubt about it as if there were before this: the Democrats, and the left in general, hate the Constitution. They have attempted to cover this up in various ways over the years, chiefly with the ridiculous legal theories that underpinned Roe v. Wade and other highly questionable judicial decisions — you know, all the business about Constitutional rights that nobody ever noticed before being hidden in “emanations” of “penumbras” of what was actually said in the founding document. Now, however, with Roe overturned, such tendentious interpretations are wearing thin, and Democrats are feeling freer to express their contempt for the Constitution openly.
This played out in Colorado recently, as Fox News reported recently: “a Republican lawmaker from Colorado expressed shock at being told by Democratic colleagues that he had to remove a sticker supporting the Second Amendment from his laptop while in the state’s House chamber.” It’s not surprising that it would be about the Second Amendment. Democrats have hated that one for decades, and have tried in innumerable ways to take an axe to it. In Colorado this time, however, they had to content themselves with silencing someone who dared to express open support for the hated Constitutional provision.
Colorado state Rep. Ken DeGraaf, who is, of course, a Republican, explained: “I had to cover up this, they couldn’t stand my sticker.” He pointed to “paper covering up a sticker in support of the Second Amendment on a laptop he carried with him to the chamber,” and added: “It said ‘shall not be infringed’ and signed ‘2-A’ and that was considered offensive, which I understand would be offensive to this bill.” The bill in question was, said Fox, “a controversial gun control bill that would limit the sale of some semiautomatic firearms that rely on detachable magazines, such as the popular AR-15 platform.”
This would be “one of the strictest gun control measures in the country, something the state’s Democratic lawmakers argue is necessary to keep citizens safe.” Yeah. A disarmed citizenry is a safe citizenry, right, comrade? DeGraaf’s winsome Democrat colleague, state Rep. Meg Froelich, declared: “Preventing gun violence is one of the most effective ways that we can make our communities safer and save lives. Semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines are uniquely lethal and dangerous.” Yeah, and if they’re illegal, they’ll vanish from Colorado, won’t they?
Froelich added: “This bill is a commonsense solution to ensure that people receive effective training and meet the requirements under state and federal firearm laws before purchasing the most lethal weapons on the market. From background checks and waiting periods to limits on high-capacity magazines, Colorado Democrats have enacted multiple laws to protect Coloradans from future gun violence.” Yeah. Because as everyone knows, the government loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives, and no one in America has ever had to defend himself from tyranny, right? Just ask Sam Adams or Paul Revere.
Let’s not get carried away. They want a disarmed populace, but that doesn’t really mean that they hate the Constitution, right? After all, Colorado Democrats told DeGraaf that “the only reason for the request was because such displays are banned in the ‘well’ of the chamber, which sits between the chamber’s front desk and the first row of member seats.” See? It was just a technical thing, an insignificant procedural rule.
All right. Time for a thought experiment: Columbia University freshman Orri Zussman said that during a recent pro-Hamas sit-in at the library of Barnard College, which is affiliated with Columbia, the protesters “were putting up stickers saying death to America, handing out pamphlets from official Hamas media groups.” Now: what if one of the leftists in the Colorado House of Representatives went into the House’s proceedings with one of those stickers on his laptop?
After all, from Sep. 12, 2023, to Jan. 8, 2025, Tim Hernández was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. Hernández is an open and proud Marxist, frequently rails against “Whiteness,” and has called for a “FORCEFUL Cultural Revolution.” Just imagine for a moment if Tim had decided to put one of those neat-o “Death to America” stickers from the Barnard sit-in on his laptop and ambled into legislative proceedings with the sticker prominently displayed.
Do you think that if that had happened, House Democrat leaders would have informed Hernández that “such displays are banned in the ‘well’ of the chamber,” and that he would have to cover it? Or would they be stoutly penning op-eds in the Denver Post explaining his frustration, as a “person of color” and all that, with America’s “systemic racism” and whatnot, and insisting that his sticker expressed his entirely justifiable rage at a system in dire need of reform?
It’s a real head-scratcher!
And they’re for the First Amendment, too, but only if they agree with the message.
So the Demo-Rats Hire that annoying little pipsqueak Hogg who is too darn stupid to know the U.S. Constitution dose give us the right to Own a Gun but you had to Figure that a bunch of Dumb-O-Crats who are too stupid to read the U.S. Constitution and dumber then a Stump bunch of Liberal Journalists
The U.S. Constitution does not give us any rights. It is completely clear on that. If the Second Amendment were repealed it would not change our rights. The Constitution gives the federal government powers. Any powers the government exercises beyond that are unconstitutional.
Our rights are bestowed by our Creator and are inalienable.
Thnk you. Saved me the trouble of clarifying that point.
Rat Face Hogg, the skeleton boy has made a career based on a blatant fraud. Rat Face wasnt even at the school during the shooting,he rode his bike up,and pushed his way in to TV with a phony interview and continues to ride the lie to easy money as a Democrat/KKK/Conmmunist public figure.
If they truly cared about gun safety, they’d lock up criminals using guns to commit crimes or possessing guns after they’ve been convicted of felonies. But they do the opposite.
They’re not being sincere.
Yeppers. It is NEVER the gun, it is ALWAYS he one carrying it.
Just accept the DEMOcrats for what they are – DESPICABLE – and what they seek to achieve – TOTAL DOMINANCE – and make PLANS and UPHOLD Our LAWS to PREVENT them from ever having the TOTAL CONTROL that they desire! Just use the HISTORY of Other Nations who allowed sick people to render them
GUNLESS!! Get rid of guns and then everything else is doable!!
We should all agree that the DEMOcrat party is ANTI-AMERICAN, pure and simple! Their HATRED for Our Constitution is on display constantly!
We must demand Our Nation is to remain a Constitutional Republic and NEVER a DEMOCRATIC hellhole!
Lots of stupid people in the coastal states keep electing these crooks time after time, and deserve what they get. Now the communist coastals are taking their mental illness to other states to infect them with the same idiocy. Drive them back to their already ruined communist states,like California,New York,Etc.
It is no longer “just” the “coast, Illinois, Ichigan,al states”We have COlorado, Michigan, Illinois, New Mexico, all seeking to disarm the honest public in favour of the criminal class.
Democrats hate the Constitution because it limits government power and protects citizen rights … and no … not the “right” to kill a child. The 5th and 14th Amendments actually protect the right to life.
Any bill to outlaw “semiautomatic firearms that rely on detachable magazines, such as the popular AR-15 platform” flies in the face of every Supreme Court decision of the last 20 years which reasoned that popularly used fire arms are the most clearly protected arms in the country. Think Glock, the most popular handgun, or the AR-15 the most popular rifle in the country. The Bruen decision states clearly that the “operative clause” of the 2d Amendment is “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
Bills like this are the Democrat way thumbing their noses at the Court, the Constitution and the rule of law, that last of which is what Democrats truly hate.
The Trump people and the rest of us need to be very forward with the argument that the Left wants to destroy the constitution, America, and Western Civilization itself. That has been the bottom line for a long time.
“Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God” Thomas Jefferson
Demokkkrats hate America.
The same way criminals hate their victims.
Everything else they say is just lies.
The Demo-Rats want to replace the 2nd Amendment with various UN Treaties our own Governor Nuisance wants a 28th Amendment to replace the 2nd