Second, this federal law is a violation of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.

The state statute is still a violation of the Second Amendment and the Texas constitutional provision protecting the right to bear arms. (This assumes that the Supreme Court will soon properly recognize that the Second Amendment applies to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment.)

Practically, schools are defenseless victim zones now. Crazies and terrorists know they can go to a school and get no significant resistance.

After terrorist attacks against their schools, Isrealis put a practical stop to it by allowing adults at schools to be armed.

For the life of me, I do not know why we leave our children and faculty and staff at schools as sitting ducks for whatever crazies or terrorists may choose to attack them.

With respect believing in the system, I choose a slightly different view than the one you express. I believe in the ideas behind the formation of our system, and the strength of my faith in the system depends upon how well it adheres to those principles.

I believe in the principle that every defendant charged with a criminal offense deserves counsel;

I believe that “all men are created equal,” and that no just system parses out different rights to people based on arbitrarily drawn categories;

I believe in the rule of law over the rule of Kings or Oligarchs;

And to the extent that the system drifts from these (and other dear) values, I believe it is my duty to do what I can to help set it right.

Finally, I believe that this is your blog, Murphy, not mine, and that it is time for me to shut up.

I look forward to reading your posts.

Roland Bernier