TBI Director David Rausch being sworn in as President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Denver, by Brandon Gibson, COO of the state of Tennessee.
This is the same person who testified in a House Civil Justice Committee hearing that the Second Amendment does not protect the right of the People to bear long guns, and if it did, it would simply be muskets.
His statement in the Committee was to the fact that Heller and Bruen were sim1:
ply about handguns, as evidenced by the attached video of the hearing.
I challenge his “Deep Dive” into the cases and their meaning, more especially the following statement by Justice Scalia in the Heller case:
“Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.” - District of Columbia et al. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 581-82 (2008)
His position in Tennessee, as well as Brandon Gibson’s is unelected, they are appointed, as such they have no duty to the People, but are solely responsible for the succor of the state, except that per Article 10 §1 of our Tennessee Constitution:
“Every person who shall be chosen or appointed to any office of trust or profit under this Constitution, or any law made in pursuance thereof, shall, before entering on the duties thereof, take an oath to support the Constitution of this State, and of the United States, and an oath of office”.
This duty comes before any obligation per a “job description’ which is actually a delegated power granted by the People to any bureaucrat, and that is any servant in government not elected by the People.
Director Rausch is responsible to protect the rights of the People above and beyond any other directive or duty, that is clear, but it is not what he has exhibited in his statements.
TBI Director David Rausch being sworn in as President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Denver, by Brandon Gibson, COO of the state of Tennessee.
This is the same person who testified in a House Civil Justice Committee hearing that the Second Amendment does not protect the right of the People to bear long guns, and if it did, it would simply be muskets.
His statement in the Committee was to the fact that Heller and Bruen were sim1:
ply about handguns, as evidenced by the attached video of the hearing.
I challenge his “Deep Dive” into the cases and their meaning, more especially the following statement by Justice Scalia in the Heller case:
“Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.” - District of Columbia et al. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 581-82 (2008)
His position in Tennessee, as well as Brandon Gibson’s is unelected, they are appointed, as such they have no duty to the People, but are solely responsible for the succor of the state, except that per Article 10 §1 of our Tennessee Constitution:
“Every person who shall be chosen or appointed to any office of trust or profit under this Constitution, or any law made in pursuance thereof, shall, before entering on the duties thereof, take an oath to support the Constitution of this State, and of the United States, and an oath of office”.
This duty comes before any obligation per a “job description’ which is actually a delegated power granted by the People to any bureaucrat, and that is any servant in government not elected by the People.
Director Rausch is responsible to protect the rights of the People above and beyond any other directive or duty, that is clear, but it is not what he has exhibited in his statements.
