...some people will take their lines of reasoning...
In his article, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott worried that local governments like Chicago's are trampling the rights of American citizens to bear arms. I find it bizarre that Abbott is so concerned about Chicago, which is not located in Texas. Has it occurred to Abbott that Chicago's 3 million residents, through their duly elected officials, might actually want to keep their strict gun control law from 1982?
So if, say, a majority of Chicago's 3 million residents wanted to suspend the Fourth and Fifth Amendment, that would be okay, too? And considering the state of that city's political machine, I'd tend to question that whole "duly elected" part, too...
The attorney general is surely joking as he laments the unrealized promise of gun ownership protected by the Second Amendment. With 200 million firearms in private hands, one has to wonder how much more freedom we need and where the protection for the community fits in his constitutional analysis.
Wow, really? One really has to wonder how much more freedom we need? A citizen of the United States, of by-God TEXAS, actually said this? I tremble for the future, I really do. What one really has to wonder, from where I sit, is just how far people like this would take that whole "we're too free" logic (and I use that term in its loosest sense). One also has to wonder what the Founding Fathers would say.
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