OK, some of the crackpots are in the congress, though.

Republican Congressman Threatens To Impeach President Obama Over Gun Safety Measures

I don’t offhand recall anybody being any stupider or crazier during the Cold War, and those were pretty crazy, stupid times.

Josh Israel quotes and links to a statement from the congressman at his own website concerning the president’s remarks about unspecified actions he could take to deal with the gun problem on his own authority.

This shows you how seriously you should take similar claims about Iran and Israel from these jackasses.

The President’s actions are an existential threat to this nation.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms is what has kept this nation free and secure for over 200 years.

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny.

Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

The only sentence in that quoted passage that isn’t an egregious and even silly lie is the third.

Even the last is ridiculous.

But enabling popular resistance to tyranny was indeed part of the purpose of the 2^nd Amendment, the other being to eliminate the need for a significant standing army - the model of tyranny in those times not being the New Deal but the very British government American conservatives nowadays admire and the patriots of that time denounced in the Declaration of Independence, hated for its principles of monarchy and aristocracy, and defeated in a bloody revolution.

Presupposed by those who supported the 2nd Amendment was the notion that militia could provide a significant opposition to government or foreign regulars.

That notion being false, the amendment was proved useless in both connections very promptly by the success of Washington’s regulars in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion and the dismal performance of US irregulars throughout the War of 1812.

That being so, the 2^nd Amendment is all downside with no upside.

American politics and American politicians, especially from the South, have always been disgusting in my lifetime.

And I am a Baby Boomer born in the middle of the last century.