Key West Lou / HOW MANY MORE SCHOOL CHILDREN MUST DIE?
Another school shooting yesterday. Four dead. Two students, two teachers. Nine students hospitalized.
Will it ever end?
The place Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. The two students were 14, as was the perpetrator. A schoolmate. The assailant has been arrested. No one else involved. He has been charged with murder and will be tried as an adult.
The teachers were 39 and 53.
Kids go to school today with run and hide instead of read and write. Has to stop!
We keep talking cease and desist. Our elected officials do not react accordingly. They used to submit solely to the NRA. Now to their gun owner/carrying constituents who “want” their guns, also.
What Louis thinks.
For years going back to my early days as an attorney, I have disagreed with the public’s “absolute right” to bear arms. I have always thought the opinions of the Supreme Court “blew it” in United States v. Cruikshank (1876), Presser v. Illinois (1886) and United States v. Miller (1939) where it was recognized the Second Amendment protected the right to bear arms from being infringed upon by Congress and that the right to bear arms preexisted the Constitution thereby making it lawful.
Precedent supports the right to personal gun ownership.
Note clearly, something we all understand today, that the Supreme Court can decide to change precedent when “they” deem it proper/feasible. Roe v. Wade the latest example.
I have been of the opinion that the Second Amendment is constantly read in error by the Supreme Court. The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The coma between “state” and “the” is significant. The Supreme Court has refused to read the writing properly into its decisions. To me it allows a simple one. The accurate one.
When the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written, the United states was a young nation without as a practical matter a standing army of any significance. If war was to occur, citizens had to be mobilized.. They needed guns. The government did not have a sufficient number of weapons. Men took their own guns with them when they went off to war. Therein lies the necessity for the right of people to “keep and bear arms” so as the nation would be prepared to fight with guns.
Certain decisions distinguish between “possessing” and “bearing” arms. A stretch one from my perspective. It would take pages to analyze the distinction. However, my simple conclusion is why would a person need to bear or possess an AR-15 for personal protection?
We need a new Supreme Court not only to correct the abortion abuse but also the crazy and improper right to bear arms.
One last point. The population of the United States is somewhere around 333 million. I read somewhere last year and mentioned it in a blog that there are more personally held guns in the U.S. then there are citizens. The recent count is 393 million personally held guns.
Today’s painting.
(click picture to enlarge) Untitled acrylic 1997 Signed in paint on painting face Signed on back in pen “Sold to Louis by Jack Baron 3/97” 39.5″ x 27.5″ $2,500
Jack never named his paintings. I did some of the ones I purchased. This one’s name obvious. The Madonna and Child. Or, the Blessed Mother and Baby Jesus.
Jack knew the Madonna was special. He had outdone himself. Whereas his acrylics normally sold for $3,500, Jack added another $1,000 to the Madonna. Several of us wanted it. None of us wanted to spend the extra $1,000. Jack would not budge.
In the early Spring, Key West has a street sale every year. Covers half of Whitehead and runs tangently into some Truman Annex Streets. Big!
I came upon Jack’s white tent. Sitting prominently for sale was the Madonna. My Madonna! I yelled at Jack: “You’re selling my painting!” He responded: “You never bought it!” I answered: “I just bought it! $4,500!” Jack said: “It’s yours” and hung a SOLD sign on it.
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