Quote of the Day
California cannot straitjacket the First Amendment by, on the one hand, allowing minors to possess and use firearms and then, on the other hand, banning truthful advertisements about that lawful use of firearms,
Circuit Judge Kenneth K. Lee
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
September 13, 2023
Court Issues Major Ruling In Favor of Gun Rights – Ultimate Newswire
It is interesting to read the response of the anti-gun people to this ruling:
“idea of marketing dangerous weapons to kids is despicable”
“Our children and families have endured enough fear and pain from endless gun violence tragedies — it’s time to end this”
“I am shocked and disappointed that the Ninth Circuit does not see what every Californian knows: There is a clear substantial governmental interest in protecting our children from the scourge of gun violence that is the leading cause of death for children.”
They don’t see a problem with and are in fact regard their activities as righteous in, infringing the First Amendment in satiated their insane hatred of the Second Amendment.
I’m glad the more rational minds of the judges prevailed. Still, such a burning hatred in pursuit of what they believe to be a righteous cause will not be easily stopped.
I am reminded of Quote of the day–Henry David Thoreau:
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Prepare and respond appropriately.
This is what self-esteem training gets you. A whole generation of people that can’t use reason, logic, empathy. But think they’re the first, last, and final decider of everything.
Sorry, no arguments to be made on mommy’s decisions.
Some wise person said there are fates worse than death.
That ones hitting home hard.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
Yup, spot on, thanks buddy!
Henry David Thoreau should have known that evil was not vanquished by fleeing it. Or perhaps did he wish to be a neutral party within the conflict known as the American Civil War as well as the Mexican War?
Evil can be resisted, but it can never be vanquished.
More evidence that the differences are irreconcilable.