Dems attack, the NRA counter-attacks.

Says 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.

The Florida high school kids are looking at the 2nd Amendment and not coming up with the regnant conservative view, the regnant view in the law, that it protects an unconditional individual right to keep and bear arms not restricted to actual service in an organized militia.

The embedded reference to militia sets out one reason those who enacted the amendment thought it good (several state constitutions that protect such a right cite this and also other reasons), but the amendment, according to the conservative and regnant reading, does not make the right in our federal constitution conditional on a well regulated militia being, in actual fact, necessary to the security of a free state.

As indeed they are not.

And neither are they sufficient.

Militia were of little use in the French and Indian War and largely useless in the Revolution.

And when spontaneous militias attempted to resist "tyranny" by the new federal government itself, a role of militia much exalted and cherished in the ideology of American gun rights enthusiasts, in Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion, they were promptly squashed by regulars.

I have heard some of the kids urge, taking the view that the amendment does only conditionally protect the right, a view to which I am sometimes partial, exactly the fact that militia are not necessary to the security of the United States, or any other free state, in our time.

Some of them approach what was once a common liberal view that it protects only the right of persons actually in service in a militia, today's militia being the National Guard, and their weapons though supplied and controlled by the Guard itself, nowadays, nevertheless being "kept and borne" within the meaning of the amendment by themselves as soldiers (militiamen).

That view is nowadays largely in retreat, having been overthrown with ridicule as indistinguishable from the claim that the Second Amendment protects, despite its words, not a right of individuals to keep and bear arms, but the right of the states to maintain the National Guards.

Wayne LaPierre on CNN just now, shedding blame at CPAC for the Florida shooting on everyone and everything but guns, Republicans, the NRA, or the 2nd Amendment, said "the elites" don't care about school safety one bit, but only want to exploit tragedy politically, their goal being to eliminate the Second Amendment so they can eliminate firearm rights, so that in the end they can eliminate all rights.

The elites hate liberty, he said, and the Democrats will impose socialism as soon as they can.

And if the Democrats regain power in Washington in 2018 or 2020 they will surely abolish the 2nd Amendment.

I am unable right now to find any news stories that quote him insisting they are out to eliminate the freedom to own guns in order to eliminate all freedoms.

And am now unsure whether he spoke in terms of rights, liberties, or freedoms.

Wayne LaPierre is as batshit crazy as Colonel Bat Guano in Doctor Strangelove.

In his mind, Bernie Sanders' plan for tuition free college in state institutions is only a millimeter from the Gulag Archipelago.

Or so he says. 

From which the Michigan Militia is supposed to save us.

Or so he says. 

If he believes what he says he is a rabid dog.

If he doesn't believe what he says he is a rabid dog.

God help us. 

These crackheads have taken over the faux conservative movement and the Republican Party.