Talking about the second amendment during a rally, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz said that people have a right to an armed rebellion against the government.
Matt forgot the word ‘peaceably’ when he was talking about our First Amendment.
2nd amendment means you can bring your AR to a drone fight. Best of luck with that.
“We are the elites”? I thought Republicans hated elitism. They always use the word to defame liberals. The GOP sure has more than its share of crazies.
Victim hood , it’s been used since the beginning of time . Freedom is free it’s in the word . It’s not feedom .
Matt Gaetz: proof that turds can be polished.
The armed rebellion has happened! This is truly wicked! The Lord himself hates those who sow discord, has a lying to tongue 😛, it’s a matter of time! The fall is sure!
This would not have been tolerated back in the 80s. I remember when Republicans had some class and dignity, now I’m ashamed when people find out I’m Republican.
The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without government sanction: a mob. One of the reasons we have a Constitution is the founders were worried about the danger posed by individuals acting like a militia without legal authority. This was precisely what happened during Shays’ Rebellion, an insurrection in western Massachusetts that persuaded many Americans that we needed a stronger central government to avert anarchy.
Many people think that we have the Second Amendment so that we can take up arms against the government if it overreaches its authority. If that interpretation were correct, it would mean that the Second Amendment had repealed the Constitution’s treason clause, which defines this crime as taking up arms against the government. In reality, in the first decade after the Constitution, the government put down several rebellions similar to Shays – and nobody claimed that they were merely asserting their Second Amendment rights.
Read Cornell’s entire piece at The New York Daily News.
