Rep. Cantor Tries To ‘Save’ Second Amendment
January 12, 2008, 9:47pm
Rep. Eric Cantor is using the First Amendments, which guarantees the right to petition the government, in an attempt to “Save The Second.”
The Virginia Republican just launched a petition drive aimed at upholding a U.S. court decision that said the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns is unconstitutional. The U.S. solicitor general on Friday submitted a brief that said while the D.C. law may be unconstitutional, the case should be returned to a lower court and re-examined.
Cantor was irritated enough by the brief to use some of his own campaign funds to lash out at the Justice Department. “Unelected bureaucrats are trying to write away our Second Amendment rights; we must not allow this to happen,” he wrote on the Web site to promote the petition. “This is bigger than politics — this is about our fundamental rights as citizens of the United States.”
The site also includes this video:
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