Are States Stripped Of Their Power To Manage Wildlife Because Of Endangered Species Act And Commerce Clause?

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was created and made law in order to help stop the eradication of certain species of animals, plants and their habitats. As such, a struggle of power has arisen between the states’ guaranteed right to “own” and manage its wildlife and a federal government bent on exercising its power over the state(s), seemingly given to it by Congress. Animal rights and anti-hunting groups have seized on the opportunity to use to their advantage to end all hunting.

If each of the 50 United States is granted, through our Constitution, the power to manage its own wildlife, how can the government take power over the state to accomplish that? Have we simply “allowed” the Congress to exert its will over that of the people, or has Congress written laws for themselves that grant them that power? Read the story »

Oh, Stop Worrying About Barack Obama

I get a constant dose of, “Stop worrying about Barack Obama!”. I read it everywhere. One of the most spread about lies is the one telling Americans that as gun owners we have nothing to worry about. We are told that Obama supports the Second Amendment and respects the rights of lawful citizens to keep and bear arms.

When I read all this malarkey, I am reminded of a parrot a co-worker of mine used to have. After work one afternoon, I went with this guy to his beach-side condominium. From previous conversations at work, I knew Dave had a parrot. He had told me some of the shenanigans this parrot, named Julio, had gotten into since becoming of member of Dave’s family. One thing I was told is that the parrot was really only loyal to one person and that happened to be Dave. He merely tolerated the rest. Read the story »

Reasonable Restrictions On Guns And Gun Ownership

Last month we received a long awaited definition of the Second Amendment. In other words, the highest court in the land declared that the Second Amendment - “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.” - guaranteed the right of the individual U.S. citizen to keep and bear arms.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion of the case and in his summation wrote this: Read the story »

Why Do We “Keep and Bear Arms”? Part 2

Last week just before the Independence Day celebration, I directed you to a story by Larry Elder at TownHall.com - “Why Do We “Keep and Bear Arms”? Part I. In Part I, Elder takes us through a brief history of the creation of the Second Amendment and then affirms the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruling the Washington, D.C. gun ban as unconstitutional - District of Columbia vs. Heller. Read the story »