"You are coloring outside Constitutional parameters"

[Clint45]

Testimony from CT hearings follows:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/20/conn-man-took-three-days-off-work-to-deliver-this-epic-testimony-against-gun-control/

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

This is such a great quote:


Mikutel explained that Connecticut doesn’t want to go down that route and so it makes lawmakers’ job more “difficult.”“The reason that your jobs are becoming so difficult is because you’re coloring outside the lines of constitutional parameters,” Steed shot back. “That’s the bottom line. You are trying to marriage up public safety with constitutional rights. The Constitution did not guarantee public safety, it guaranteed liberty. And sometimes what comes with liberty is tragedy, unfortunately.”

[Dingo]

God bless this guy... that's the most articulate, on point, no BS statement I've heard through the entire sordid affair. Fuckin A.

[two shoes]

Poetry

[mrghost]

God bless this guy... that's the most articulate, on point, no BS statement I've heard through the entire sordid affair. Fuckin A.

An extremely quotable testimony! Couldn't have articulated those points any better myself.


The Constitution did not guarantee public safety, it guaranteed liberty. And sometimes what comes with liberty is tragedy, unfortunately.

Favorite bit there.

[sellersm]

Excellent quote! This quote highlights the truth that you can't legislate "correct behavior"! It's liberty vs. tyranny, and even tyranny won't prevent tragedy! People are always free to make choices...

[Blockhead]

Great quote. I said about the same thing to my young sons tonight during a dinner discussion, albeit less eloquently than that gentleman.

[Ronin13]

Finally got around to watching that... well said. Problem is, you can school legislators all you want, but I don't think they're listening anymore, they're gonna do whatever they want, our opinions and facts be damned. [Mad]

[Ridge]

They're going to use that last bit against him, arguing that public safety is paramount. And it'll work. People nowadays don't want liberty. They want to be able to do things without risk; even risky things.

[Sawin]

I have saved his quote and intend to distribute it widely.

[Dave]

They're going to use that last bit against him, arguing that public safety is paramount. And it'll work. People nowadays don't want liberty. They want to be able to do things without risk; even risky things.
There it is, liberty also includes responsibility for yourself. No one wants that. Too many would rather get money from others for no work and feel safe than be free and have the inherent risk that comes with existence.

[Teufelhund]

There it is, liberty also includes responsibility for yourself. No one wants that. Too many would rather get money from others for no work and feel safe than be free and have the inherent risk that comes with existence.

And so dies the Republic. If only all this had been done before so we could know how it ends. . .
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."-Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

[Singlestack]

They're going to use that last bit against him, arguing that public safety is paramount. And it'll work. People nowadays don't want liberty. They want to be able to do things without risk; even risky things.

So very true. The US is really idealogically split between those who value most essential liberty vs those who value security, even if the security is elusive and ultimately can't be guaranteed. I'm really not sure that can or will ever be reconciled - which leads to the US being fractured along those lines. Idealogically, we are already very fractured. The question I have is if this will somehow result in some sort of geographic or national split?