The gun rights Web site KeepAndBearArms.com has caught California Senator Dianne "I Want Your Guns" Feinstein in a lie!
Earlier this month, Feinstein wrote a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell. In her letter, Feinstein complained about Attorney General John Ashcroft's position on the Second Amendment. (Ashcroft, as you probably already know, has affirmed the rights of individual, law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms.) Feinstein whined that the State Department had used Ashcroft's views to formulate the U.S. position at the U.N. conference on small arms. Feinstein's point was that John Ashcroft is nothing but a puppet of the National Rifle Association.
In her letter, Feinstein quoted from the Supreme Court decision in the 1939 case of United States v. Miller. This case is viewed by many as the Supreme Court's leading Second Amendment case. Two bootleggers had been prosecuted in a lower court for violating the National Firearms Act. They had a sawed-off shotgun but had not paid the required federal tax. A federal district court dismissed the case on the grounds that the National Firearms Act, but the Supreme Court ruled in its majority opinion that the Second Amendment did not guarantee the right to keep and bear such a gun. Anti-gunners like to point to this case because it supports their view that gun ownership is not an individual right.
Feinstein misquotes the Miller decision in her letter. It wasn't just a mistake. She changed the wording of the Miller decision and put quotation marks around it to make it look like she was quoting the decision directly. She said the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment's purpose was "'to assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness' of the 'state Militia.'"
The problem is, there's no mention of a "state militia" anywhere in the Miller decision.
Dianne Feinstein is lying. She wants Americans to believe that the Second Amendment does not protect the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. She wants you to think that only the state has that right. And she'll twist a decades-old Supreme Court decision to her liking if it strengthens her cause.
How the hell does this woman keep getting elected to the Senate?
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2303
Earlier this month, Feinstein wrote a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell. In her letter, Feinstein complained about Attorney General John Ashcroft's position on the Second Amendment. (Ashcroft, as you probably already know, has affirmed the rights of individual, law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms.) Feinstein whined that the State Department had used Ashcroft's views to formulate the U.S. position at the U.N. conference on small arms. Feinstein's point was that John Ashcroft is nothing but a puppet of the National Rifle Association.
In her letter, Feinstein quoted from the Supreme Court decision in the 1939 case of United States v. Miller. This case is viewed by many as the Supreme Court's leading Second Amendment case. Two bootleggers had been prosecuted in a lower court for violating the National Firearms Act. They had a sawed-off shotgun but had not paid the required federal tax. A federal district court dismissed the case on the grounds that the National Firearms Act, but the Supreme Court ruled in its majority opinion that the Second Amendment did not guarantee the right to keep and bear such a gun. Anti-gunners like to point to this case because it supports their view that gun ownership is not an individual right.
Feinstein misquotes the Miller decision in her letter. It wasn't just a mistake. She changed the wording of the Miller decision and put quotation marks around it to make it look like she was quoting the decision directly. She said the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment's purpose was "'to assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness' of the 'state Militia.'"
The problem is, there's no mention of a "state militia" anywhere in the Miller decision.
Dianne Feinstein is lying. She wants Americans to believe that the Second Amendment does not protect the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. She wants you to think that only the state has that right. And she'll twist a decades-old Supreme Court decision to her liking if it strengthens her cause.
How the hell does this woman keep getting elected to the Senate?
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2303
i wasnt saying weather you should or shouldnt have guns
