Rep. Chip Roy was out of his league when Rep. Jamie Raskin took him to task about guns, and he used to Constitution to make his point to the Texas Republican. Roy is a ridiculous and offensive man that tried to argue last month against gun reform legislation by comparing it to the Holocaust. Republicans like doing that with things they oppose, but you know what was like the Holocaust? The Holocaust, and only the Holocaust. Nothing else. That's it.
Raskin said that Roy has an insurrectionist view of the Second Amendment. That's not to be confused with the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. The Insurrectionist Theory is a political philosophy that claims that "possession of firearms by individuals serves as the ultimate check on the power of the government." You've all heard Republicans/conservatives make that claim eleventy bazillion times before.
Raskin gunsplained to Roy that that is not what's in the Constitution. It says the opposite. We are not supposed to take up arms against our government. He said that Roy's theory is "absolutely, totally absurd, and flies in the face of the plain text of the Constitution."
Raskin named five places in the Constitution that "clearly forbids armed violent resistance to the government." Raskin went through the list, explaining that "the founders strongly opposed" violence toward the government. The Maryland Democrat further noted that making war with our government is an "act of treason."
"And what do they have against this? A quote from Patrick Henry, an anti-federalist who opposed the Constitution.
Preach it, Congressman.
