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And this is one of the bright lights for the gop...no wonder they keep running into things
Joe Scarborough: Ted Cruz ‘willfully ignorant’ on the U.S. Constitution
The Daily CallerSince arriving on the scene in Congress just a few months ago, junior Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been outspoken in public appearances and hearings on issues including Obama’s cabinet confirmations, the Benghazi attacks. He recently had a dust-up before the Senate Judiciary Committee with his colleague, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
That recent brawl has drawn the ire of MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough. On his Friday program, Scarborough chastised Cruz and accused the Harvard Law graduate of being “willfully ignorant” on matters regarding the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“Did Ted Cruz not go to law school?” Scarborough said. “Did they teach Ted Cruz to read what the Supreme Court said especially in the landmark — the landmark — decision regarding Second Amendment rights? Over 200 years was written in 2008. And I’m just wondering, why would he use his seat on the Judiciary Committee, if he went to Harvard, to put forward a willfully ignorant statement about this bill violating the Second Amendment, because it does not. And Ted Cruz knows it does not. So who is he playing for? Is he playing for people who can’t read or are illiterate?”
“I don’t understand,” Scarborough continued. “You know, there are a lot of people out there who support Ted Cruz’s position that will say, ‘this is not a violation of the Second Amendment,’ but however have real concerns because you take this first step, the next thing you know they’re going to try to overturn Heller, they’re going to take my shotguns.
“They’re going to try to get my hunting rifle. I don’t mean to go on and on here, but I am so shocked that he would continue to use his seat in the Judiciary Committee to just mislead millions of Americans and put forward a willfully ignorant position on what the Constitution says and what it does not say.”
Scarborough continued to use the 2008 D.C. v. Heller case as proof Cruz was out of bounds in his criticism of Feinstein’s gun control proposals and advised him to “read the damn case law.”
“[I]f Ted Cruz wants to say the Second Amendment — I believe the Second Amendment should protect people’s rights to have assault weapons or semi-automatic weapons, or whatever linguistic game, whatever semantic game they want to play at the NRA, whatever Bushmasters are — if he wants to say I personally believe the Second Amendment should protect these rights and is absolute and contains all these things that Justice [Antonin] Scalia and Justice [Clarence] Thomas and Justice [Anthony] Kennedy and Justice [Samuel] Alito, and you know conservative justices — if he wants to say it, that’s fine,” Scarborough said. “I’ve got no problem with that and I know people who believe that should be contained within Heller and the Second Amendment. It’s just not.”
“So when he suggests to [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein, or lectures her that she is violating the Second Amendment, that this impinges upon Second Amendment rights, that’s just false,” he continued. “And that’s what’s so disturbing to me. This is an opinion. This is fact. Read the damn case law. And he keeps doing it and it’s driving me crazy because he supposedly is a learned man.”
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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and this is the ONLY state to do this....
California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
By Michael B. Marois & James Nash - Mar 12, 2013 2:06 PM CT
Patrick T. Fallon/BloombergCalifornia Department of Justice police agents walk towards a house near Ontario, California on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The agents, working for the only state-level program to confiscate illegal firearms from owners, targeted people who’d once legally purchased firearms and lost the right after being convicted of violent crimes, committed to mental institutions or hit with restraining orders.Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California (STOCA1) Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital.
Special Agent Supervisor John Marsh who coordinates the operations around California, said: “We’re not contacting anybody who can legally own a gun. The only people we’re contacting are people who are prohibited from owning guns.” Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
Weapons and ammunition seized from the home of Lynette and David Philllips by agents with the California Department of Justice police in Upland, California. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
Lynette Phillips, 48, and her husband, David Phillips, 51, sit in their home in Upland, California on March 5, 2013. Lynette, a nurse, had to surrender three guns after spending two days in a mental hospital in December. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
Weapons with ammunition seized from the home of Lynette and David Phillips by agents with the California Department of Justice police in Upland, California. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
California Department of Justice police agents walk towards a house near Ontario, California on March 5, 2013. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
Special Agent Supervisor John Marsh with the California Department of Justice drives out to seize illegal firearms near Ontario, California on March 5, 2013. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came away peacefully with three firearms.
California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, according to Attorney General Kamala Harris. Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/california-seizes-guns-as-...
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Permalink Reply by P.A. on
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Senator Cruz may be well educated but he is an ignorant man. Can he not read the second amendment.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed"
What does he think "well regulated" means?
What does he think militia means?
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Permalink Reply by The Dyslexic Dodger on
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I loved watching Sen. Dianne Feinstein slap down Cruz for being such a condesending punk in lectureing her on the Constitution. He was soooo outclassed both in inteligence and experience that he was a sitting duck.
hahahaha
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Permalink Reply by exedir on
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Again, the point is the point, that is what each member is doing, grandstanding for a constituency which is of course the problem. If it was simply a matter of legislation we would have a bill and an up or down vote. But it is not, this is a matter of beliefs, principles and what sells, a toxic combination that needs leadership to overcome.
But overcome what? The 2nd amendment, court rulings, lobbyists, major donors, taking a stand or firmly held principles and beliefs, or all of the above, or none of the above?
As to the issue of gun safety or gun confiscation and control, well, that is what needs to be debated and legislated, or not.
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Barsten on
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If it makes news and gets their name in the paper, they don't care if their right or wrong...
That's arrogance...
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