Another Constitutional scrap in Congress.

 This time in the Senate Judicial Committee hearing on a bill introduced by CA Sen. Dianne Feinstein. seeking to ban certain firearms.

TX Sen. Ted Cruz wondered if the CA Senator would support the same selective application to the 1st and 4th amendments, as is being proposed for the 2nd amendment.

Senator Feinstein got all snarky and reminded Cruz that she had been on this committee for twenty years.
My first thought was that that was 14 years too long. It is time for the lady to retire and return to California.

Cruz, after all, was the attorney who successfully argued the 2008 District of Columbia vs. Heller Case before the U.S. Supreme Court, overturning the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., . Feinstein, like many politicians, believes that holding a political office trumps all.

What angered me most was when, following a mention of the free speech protection of the First Amendment, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin asserted that none of the Constitutional Amendments are absolute. Well, that argument has been around longer than me! In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge said "When we say, 'All men are created equal', that is absolute".

But, back to the recent hearing, someone yelled that the First Amendment did not protect pornography as free speech. Really?Does anyone with half a brain think the framers wrote the First Amendment protection for free speech to permit pornography? Or, that other bit of idiocy about falsely yelling 'Fire' in a crowded theater.

That is why John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”


Certainly, the Framers were moral and religious people. Not the kind, as perhaps would be some of our current United States Senators, who believe it is a constitutionally protected right to cause panic in a crowded theater, or engage in the distribution of pornography.