Good day all. In 1861, a number of states decided to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. One of the first states, and the one that fired the first shot of the Civil War, was South Carolina. Well, it looks like someone didn’t get the memo delivered by General Grant.
Now this bit of secession news is different from what is going on in Kalifornistan. South Carolina doesn’t actually want to leave the union this time, but several members of the legislature are concerned at what they see happening regarding our Constitutional rights. Here are the details from the Washington Times:
South Carolina debated seceding from the Union more than 150 years ago, one of the opening salvos of the Civil War. Now, the topic has come up again, amid a national debate over firearms and gun rights. A trio of state House Republicans on Thursday quietly introduced a bill that would allow lawmakers to debate seceding from the U.S. “if the federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this State.”
Well, this is a bit different from what I expected. The last time South Carolina tried this, it wasn’t to protect people’s rights as it was to protect the ownership of slaves. There were a number of other issues as well, and I’ll let others discuss them. In this case, they are talking about the outright suppression of the 2nd Amendment by the Progressive Democrats. I suspect this came out now due to an order by the Deerfield, Illinois city council which just torched not only the 2nd Amendment, but most of the Bill of Rights as well.
Rep. Mike Pitts, the measure’s chief sponsor, acknowledged Friday in an interview with The Associated Press that the bill has no chance of passage this year but pledged to continue to raise the issue based on what he described as a defense of the Bill of Rights.
“Without a Bill of Rights, our nation is not what it is,” Pitts said. “I see a lot of stuff where people even talk about totally repealing the Second Amendment, which separates us from the entire rest of the world.”
Well there’s your problem Representative Pitts. You’re assuming that the Progressives, Liberals and the Uniparty give a damn about the Constitution or the United States. They don’t. They care only about themselves, their power and privilege and their wealth. Every singe one of them will put other countries ahead of the United States.
Pitts, an ardent supporter of gun rights, said he had been mulling such a proposal for a while and felt it was necessary to bring the bill forward. He said he wasn’t spurred by recent comments by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who recently wrote in an op-ed that a repeal of the Second Amendment “would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.”
John Paul Stevens, along with Warren Burger, were two of the biggest haters of the 2nd Amendment and believed in the power of the State over the rights of the people. Burger, after he left the court, stated that there was no individual right to keep and bear arms, which flies in the face of the actual amendment and what the founders wrote in the Federalist Papers.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union before the Civil War, voting in December 1860 to make the decision based on “increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery.”
Slavery was on it’s way out, and should have been abolished long before 1860. Still, there is a very big difference between seceding to keep your slaves, and seceding to keep the means to not become slaves.
Other states have proposed secession-related measures. In 2013, several counties moved to secede from Colorado and form their own state, an unsuccessful movement was in part driven by new gun control laws passed by the Democratic legislature.
Democrats. The newest Totalitarian party. Their ideas rival those of the Communists, Fascists, and our old enemies, the Nazi’s. They all have on thing in common. Disarming the people so they have no way to protect themselves and keeping the government goon squads from loading them on cattle cars. Oh, for those who may not recall, it was the Democrats who wanted to keep slavery, and the ones who started the Civil War. They have been upset that they lost their slaves and have been working ever since to get them back.
Pitts, a longtime law officer and Army veteran, said his bill isn’t a call for secession but merely a proposal to make the action possible if events warrant.
“I’m not promoting secession. I served this country, and I don’t want to see it broken up.”
This differs in many ways from the “Calexit” knuckleheads out in Kalifornistan. Frankly, there are millions of people outside of that state that are asking, “Are you still here? Why haven’t you left yet?” Representative Pitts is quite right that secession isn’t in the cards for South Carolina. If things were to reach the point where they were actively looking at it statewide, then it would be to late and the shooting would have already started. Still, it’s good for the purposes of discussion.
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