Cooper’s Corner

It seems we are always fighting the same battles.  This excerpt was taken from Gargantuan Gossip II in December of 1994. 

Of course not all pundits are our enemies. Joe Sobran is a strong warrior on our side. Consider the following, extracted from his column appearing on 12 December in the Washington Times.

“Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.”

“In short, we – or our rulers, at any rate – now make law lawlessly. Bill Clinton wants to license all handguns in the United States. He affects not to know that the    Second Amendment forbids the federal government to infringe our right to keep and bear arms. He doesn’t ask, because he doesn’t care, where the federal government gets the lawful power to require the licensing of guns. He thinks it has the actual political power to do it, and for him that is all that counts.”

“So law-abiding citizens are left at a disadvantage – caught between a criminal class that disdains the law and a ruling class that disdains the Constitution. That is beautifully put and, we hope, widely read

In this degenerate period in the life of the republic, I most strongly urge all responsible people to find a copy of the Constitution of the United States and to read the Tenth Amendment thereto with great care. I have not yet heard it proposed that legislators and executives who are ignorant of the supreme law of the land may be charged with “political malpractice,” but it is high time that someone brought this up.