A very good video going over the new gun laws in Montana. I don’t ordinarily like much from Fox news, but Glenn Beck brought on the writers of the new gun law in Montana to explain their position.
Here’s part of the transcript:
BECK: OK. What would you say if I said to you, “I think a background check is not necessarily a bad idea”? You don’t want some guy and going — I was in a gun store in Pennsylvania. I’m not kidding you. Two people walked in, some, you know, 20-year-old dope and his girlfriend, and he is like, “Well, what do you want?” And she said, “I don’t know. That one’s kind of cute, the pink one. I like that one.”
I just looked at the guy behind the counter and I said, “Don’t sell them a firearm.” He did. I mean, I think we should have some standards. What do you say about standards - having some kind of standard?
MARBUT: We don’t have those kinds of people in Montana. Or at least —
(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
BECK: You don’t like (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Montana. You’re right. You’re right.
MARBUT: At least we have fewer of them than you do. We want to set our own standards and we should be allowed to have guns and we don’t want the federal standards. We’re not the same as New Jersey or California or somewhere else.
And if we want to put restrictions on who can possess firearms, they should be our restrictions and should fit our culture and our people.
BECK: But people will say — Kevin and judge, people will say, “We’re all part of a union. We all have to work together.” Kevin, you’re smiling like this and it doesn’t have a shot in hell of working.
KEVIN GUTZMAN, AUTHOR, “POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION”: Well, there are two levels to approach this question. One is on the theoretical level. On the theoretical level, the gentlemen are exactly right. The federal government is grabbing power to regulate these things and anything else that comes to mind that it’s not supposed to have. And so I applaud them.
And trying to figure out a way to confront the federal government and get it to rein itself in is a good idea. On the other hand, practically, the first time this matter comes into a federal court, it’s tossed.
BECK: Judge?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO, FOX NEWS SENIOR JUDICIAL ANALYST: Well, I think the more states that do it, the more pressure there will be on the Congress to realize that the states are serious about preventing the Congress from taking power away from it.
For example, if this were extended another step further, like the state of Montana forbids all police, local, regional and state, from enforcing federal laws in Montana. The federal government simply lacks the resources and the money to enforce all of its laws without the states helping them. So the more piling on there is, the more judges will realize, hey, something is going on here.
BECK: Leo, let me go to you, because you are a representative in the state of Texas. With Texas — you guys get it. And no offense, Montana, but Texans are going to come up and kick your butts. You guys are also — are you going to be taking Gary’s amendment? Is that what you are trying to do? What are you doing in Texas?
REP. LEO BERMAN, TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: We’ve already filed his bill in Texas. But he’ll have the court case in Montana. But Glenn, I’m a 9/12er. I served 22 years in the military because I love this country, just like you do. And we say that we fought against fascism, communism.
We watched socialist countries throughout the world just languish while we prospered based on free enterprise and individual freedoms. We see this president and this administration taking us not to the far-left, but beyond that to socialism. We don’t want to go there.
So Rep. Brandon Creighton and I filed two bills in Texas. The bills don’t really need to pass because 30 other states did essentially the same thing. But what these bills do is reassert our sovereignty under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
And we tell the federal government that if they mandate anything on us which is not fully authorized by the U.S. Constitution, we’re going to challenge it and not do it. That’s the only thing we can possibly do right now.
We don’t want to become a socialist state. We want to challenge the federal government and I think we can do it. If we get all the state governors together to pull their resources, and anytime the federal government comes out with a mandate that’s not authorized by the Constitution, we take it right into federal court, all of us at the same time.
Amen and Amen. It’s not about being right or wrong, it’s about state control vs. government rule. States rights people!
