Article I, Sec. 8 Should Terrify You
Better known as the “Commerce Clause“, will eventually be this Great Nation’s undoing.
This little piece of language right here:
…provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States
Is seen by politicians as carte blanche to do absolutely anything they want.
It’s what they invoke when the conversation of Healthcare comes about. Fairness Doctrine? Commerce Clause. Internet Taxation? Commerce Clause. And that’s exactly what they’ll invoke when it comes to gun control.
Gun Control? Interstate Commerce? Surely, you jest!
Maybe not. Look closely:
The Department of Justice, in a brief filed this week in U.S. District Court in Missoula, said that federal gun control is a “valid exercise of Congress’ commerce power under the Constitution.”
Allow me to translate:
We can restrict the Bill of Rights and render State Rights moot because the Commerce Clause says so. Nanny. Nanny. Boo. Boo.
Let’s jump over to those smart suckers at Cato for a little primer on the “Elastic Clause” also known as the Commerce Clause:
For proponents of a limited central government, the General Welfare Clause has been a source of great mischief. Interpreted elastically by constitutionalists of the “living document” persuasion, the Clause has helped serve up a gourmand’s feast of government programs, regulations, and intrusions that would have been unimaginable to the Framers.
Remember the language in this Clause and particularly the term “General Welfare” which lefties and their ilk take to mean, “Errr um … anything we want!”
I’m telling you. Read the Clause. Read the link at Cato. Then spend five minutes doing some searches and look at all the crap that’s been caused by Article I, Section 8.
Your firearms are not safe. Period.