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KBCraig wrote:
Brian D. wrote:
Wasn't it due to pressure from Congress that all the states now recognize each others' drivers licenses?
No. There is no national mandate that states recognize each others' drivers licenses. The several States voluntarily agreed to recognize licenses when they signed the Interstate Motorists Compact in the 1970s. Not all states even issued drivers licenses until 1953, when South Dakota was the last state to require driver licensing.
"What the feds mandate, the feds can take away." Don't let the feds' nose under the tent when it comes to concealed carry. What a can of worms that would be! How long do you think "national CCW" would last under President H. Clinton, or President Pelossi?
Kevin
Your second paragraph is dead on in regards to the idea, and concerns, about letting the federal government be a party to our rights. We have seen time and time again the folly of such actions. Nothing but trouble and nothing but loss of rights.
It's as simple as this. Governments, all governments, are essentially evil, and they only know how to do one thing.. and that is to grow. Left unchecked, they will eventually swallow up the governed because that's what they do. It is the right and the duty of the people to control their government, by armed force if need be, in order for them to insure their own peace and tranquility, and the future security of their progeny. To do less is to reap the tides of evil and slavery.
Our Founders were most aware of this which is the reason that Patrick Henry and George Mason convinced James Madison of the absolute need for a Bill of Rights. Think about this. In all of history, we are the only nation which at the time of our creation, reserved to the people the right to throw off their government, and institute new government, using any force necessary to achieve the desired end. This has never occurred before or since. Here is the proof;
"..Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
