Lex destroys Lefty Lib "faulty reasoning"

Never ask how your reasoning can be faulted.  It always can, ask any married man. When it comes to gun control, the Lefty Lib's best argument remains the emotional appeal. Every single time they try to engage in truth, logic or gun facts, they get destroyed.  Better for them to start and end every gun discussion with, "We have to do something" than ever try to explain or defend what the "something" is or how it will help.

Michael Moffitt tries to demonstrate how the #2A is outmoded in today's JG. The only thing he accomplishes is to again let the cat out of the bag as what the true aim of the Lefty Lib anti-gun movement is.  

Lex responds: 

Re: Michael Moffitt’s letter, “Amendment outmoded” of Apr 5, 2018

I am a constitutionalist “originalist” and it is quite easy to fault Moffitt’s faulty reasoning.  First and most obvious, what do you suppose the word “National” in term National Guard means?  It means in addition to the federal government providing the lion’s share of the funding for the National Guard’s equipment and training, the president can, with consent of congress, nationalize Guard units.

Perhaps the only thing faultier than Moffitt’s reasoning is his understanding of what constitutes a “standing army.”  Can anyone be so misinformed as to believe the National Guard (part-time soldiers) is equivalent to a state’s own standing army?  Moffitt may want to check the definition of “standing army.” 

The National Guard is what is referred to as a “regular militia.”  There are also state militias (different from the National Guard) and unorganized militias.  Secure in his faulty reasoning, Moffitt never bothered to take the 20 minutes or so required to research the difference in these three organizations.

Also Moffitt apparently never checked his reasoning against Federalist Paper No. 46.  Nor did he bother to consider the role of English common law that recognizes the natural right to self-defense and is the bedrock upon which the framers placed the Second Amendment.

I will give Moffitt credit for one thing though.  As faulty as his reasoning is otherwise, he plainly and accurately stated the ultimate goal of Lefty Libs when they talk about “common sense gun control”.  When they talk about “common sense gun control,” what they really mean is the repeal of the Second Amendment.  

  

Amendment outmoded

Why not start a movement to repeal the Second Amendment? The founders were horrified of standing, full-time armies. Thus, the Second Amendment was drafted. But that aversion to full-time standing armies died out a long time ago. The federal government has one and the states (with their National Guards) have theirs. Both are armed by the citizens through taxation and are peopled by volunteers. Such being the case, we no longer need the citizens to arm nor serve in the militias when they are constituted and called to duty for the states. Hence, we no longer need the Second Amendment.

If you're a constitutional “originalist,” I can't see how you fault that reasoning.

Michael Moffitt

Wolcottville