Topeka
– The struggle over states rights has returned to the plains of the
free state that spawned violence, leading to the War Between the
States.
This
time, it's all about the right to keep and bear arms, and it's
serious as a heart attack - or a government raid.
Kansans
will return to an understanding of the right to keep and bear arms
that dates from its entry into the United States of America in the
first year of the Civil War, 1861.
Governor
Sam Brownback signed a new law that renders federal gun law null and
void if it conflicts with the Second Amendment.
The
main factor of the new legislation is that the definition of the
Second Amendment is not keyed to any Supreme Court opinion or ruling,
according to its sponsors and authors.
“The
second amendment to the constitution of the
United States reserves to the people, individually, the right to keep
and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that Kansas
was admitted to statehood in 1861, and the guaranty of that right is
a matter of contract between the state and people of Kansas and the
United States as of the time that the compact with the United States
was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States
in 1861,” a section of the law states.
Constitutional
experts reason that such an interpretation of a state statute will
cause enough widespread noncompliance that it will render any
enforcement of federal gun controls impossible to enforce in that
state.
A
similar law, the 2nd Amendment Protection Act, has passed the Federalism Committee in the Texas Legislature, and is standing in line to be
placed in the hopper of the all-important Calendars Committee, a step
essential to put it in line for a floor vote in the House of
Representatives, according to the Tenth Amendment Center.
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