Every politician seems to believe in the Second Amendment. Until they don’t. This guy (current mayor of Dallas) purports to speak for Dallas and wants the NRA to have it’s May convention elsewhere?
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is telling the National Rifle Association to consider holding its annual convention this spring somewhere else, warning of protests if the event is held in Dallas as planned.
"I am saying to the NRA, reconsider coming to Dallas,” Caraway reportedly said Monday, five days after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school. “There will be marches and demonstrations should they come to Dallas.”
He said he believes in Second Amendment rights and owns five guns but argued NRA officials, if they come to Dallas, should work with local leaders on changing laws to increase gun safety.
“It is time for them to stand up,” Caraway said. “And it’s time for us to listen and it’s time for Trump and every elected official in Washington and USA on every level to stand up and speak out against this type of violence.”
Not surprised by that at all. Hopefully his days as mayor are numbered. That’s a lot of tourist business and money he’s letting slip through his hands because he along with a lot of other people can’t seem to put the blame where it really lies, with the idiot PODS that committed the crime.
I don’t think there’s one of us here who wouldn’t, and doesn’t speak out against this type of violence. They just don’t like the fact that we speak out against the person who committed the act, and the failure of all those to stop someone who everyone knew was a walking time bomb.
“But” is a conjunction to link a statement in the second part of a sentence which contradicts or contrasts the first part of the sentence. No matter what comes before the “but,” you know what comes after is going to reveal the true character.
I am in full support of the second amendment, but I think only cops and the military should have anything more than a pistol…
Duh-waine Caraway is an immoral, racist idiot who dropped out of TSU when he couldn’t handle the intellectual workload of that institution. He is only the Mayor Pro Tem, not the elected Mayor of Dallas. Even Dallas residents aren’t stupid enough to elect him, though they didn’t do much better by choosing Rawlings. If he says he has five guns, I believe him. I’m also sure he had to lay them out and use his fingers to count them.
Dallas is in even worse shape than Houston and is another example of the epic failure of elected democrats at the helm of large cities.
The following is my wife’s definition of “but”. She says “but” means “disregard everything I just said”. I find her definition fits most conversations when it’s used.
Heaven’s no. But that’s the logic of anti-gunners. So if they believe guns are dangerous, why protest outside? If they protest outside they just not believe guns are dangerous. It contradicts their platform.
The Mayor has the same mentality as Berkeley. If bad people protest, good people must oblige.
Too bad the sheeple will never be able to see this. They’re too blind in their “moralistic” rage to see logic. They just want to keep stoking the fires of emotions.
No, but I can imagine these idiots harassing NRA members trying to get inside or leaving and going back to the hotel. Similar to what protesters did to Trump supporters at various rallies. Like the video of the woman being cornered against a closed storefront entrance. I can totally see some self defense shoots happening when some wannabe ANTIFA asshole tries to go after an NRA member with a bike lock.
I believe in the 2nd Amendment but I wish it had been written in a manner that better precluded any possibility for opponents to engage in deliberate, agenda-driven “misinterpretations” about it’s true meaning and intent.
What part of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” is hard to read or understand? It’s crystal clear. They only try to make it confusing, but it is not.
No, it’s not, but there’s apparently enough wiggle room so that idiots can try the “They meant muskets, not assault weapons” and “The People means the States, so they can have the national guard” lines. It would have been nice if the language had been so unambiguous that you could have an easier time arguing that pigs can fly or something. But I guess at the time they wrote it, the founding fathers could never have envisioned how idiotic contemporary American culture would become.
I’m thinking more than a few of them might confront visitors on the way in and start things up the escalation of force ladder. “Some” protestors believe that their right of protest covers anything and everything they might do, including vandalism, assault and arson in relation to that protest.
Anyone who says they believe in the 2nd Amendment but… doesn’t. If you say you believe in the 2nd Amendment, but then go on to tell me why you want to infringe on it, you’re a liar. I can and will call you a liar too. You’re attempting to commit fraud by pretending to believe something you don’t really believe, and I’m not having it. You cannot have an intelligent discussion with an intellectually dishonest person. It’s a null set.
There is no language more plain and unambiguous than that for Eminent Domain and it’s specific “public use” qualification, but that didn’t stop SCOTUS under Bush (43) from ruling that ED could be used for “private use” if it could be shown that it benefits the “public.”
The FF could have said “Yes we mean modern military arms comparable to a standing arming including ray guns brought by alien visitors” and it wouldn’t matter. The SCOTUS would get together and debate the meaning of the word “modern.”
The Consitution even comes with a set of instructions called the Federalist Papers, just in case anyone isn’t 100% clear what was meant, and it spells out EXACTLY the intent of the second amendment, but since most people don’t know they even exist government has just ignored them and passed laws contrary to the intent and specific wording of both the Constitution and the Federalist Papers almost from the start.
