Judging Freedom - Dems Gun Deal is a Raw Deal

Episode Date: June 13, 2022

Senators Reach Framework for Legislation Addressing Gun Violence Bipartisan agreement focuses on mental health, school security, red-flag funding, juvenile record #dems #gunrights #secondamendmentSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here with Judging Freedom. Today is Monday, June 13, 2022. It's about 125, 130 in the afternoon here on the east coast of the United States. A lot of things happened over the weekend, and I will be speaking about them. Some issues involving the January 6th committee and some issues involving the president. But one of the things, in the president's memory, one of the things that happened over the weekend was a release by Senators Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, that they, the principal senatorial negotiators on some sort of a compromise over guns had been achieved and that they have 10 senators to back

them up. This presumes that whatever they come up with, and I'll explain it in a minute, will pass the House and that all the Democrats in the Senate will vote for it because with the filibuster rule, they need 60 votes. So what have they come up with? Nothing. What they've come up with is bad for human freedom. What they've come up with is outrageous for human freedom and clearly unconstitutional. When I said nothing, I meant all they want to do is spend money. So the money part of it is to give away money that the federal government doesn't have to strengthen background checks and to allow the states to spend slash waste money on mental health facilities for people that have mental problems, as if the state is going to find out using constitutional means who has mental problems. But this is the federal government's first and last

resort when they want to solve a problem is to go out and borrow money and spend it. I say borrow because the federal government is bankrupt. So whatever money they spend is money that they borrow in our names, your name and my name, that we and our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be paying interest on almost forever. Remember, we're still paying interest on the money Woodrow Wilson borrowed to fund World War I more than 100 years ago. The second thing that this agreement does, and this is what really upsets me, that Republicans would vote for this, that anybody who took an oath to uphold the Constitution would vote for it, is to give away money to the states to strengthen their red flag laws. unconstitutional thing the state does. On the basis of a whispered secret complaint, without a charge, without a trial, without a crime, the government authorizes a judge,

like I used to be, a state trial court judge, to take away guns. Man, what has happened in this country if people can have liberty and property taken away from them, not because of what they've done, but because of what they might do? What is this, the Matrix, the movie The Matrix, where the government can predict what crimes you're going to commit and punish you or restrain you before you commit them? That's what these red flag laws do. I don't know which way the Supreme Court is going to go on carrying guns. I believe it's going to be in favor of wiping out state laws that make it difficult to carry guns, and maybe it'll lay down some guidelines that will invalidate these red flag laws. But every single one of these red flag laws, whether paid for, whether the enforcement of it is paid for by the state or the enforcement of it is paid for by the feds, are unconstitutional. To punish someone before they commit a crime is to violate everything the Declaration and the Constitution

stands for. But that's where we are today. And that's where Republicans who claim they understand the Constitution, who claim they believe in the right to keep and bear arms, are caving to the Democrats. I understand what Chuck Schumer wants to do and the Democrats. They don't believe in the Constitution to begin with. They don't believe in the Constitution to begin with. They don't believe in the Second Amendment to begin with. They admit that. But Republicans who claim they're in favor of the Constitution and the right to keep and bear arms want to take guns away from people before they use them? Reprehensible, unlawful, immoral, unconstitutional, and they should be thrown out of office.

Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.