Aside from the NRA, there was nothing preventing the GOP from joining the students.
Except common sense and independent thought. Republicans act as individuals not as a "group" and the matter is not a government issue to be solved by one more or even ten more gun laws. Your Congressman can no more stop people from wanting to take a gun to school to shoot their teacher than they can stop you liking ice cream. It is up to people to control themselves and what a sad day in America when "Americans" call for the taking away of their own liberty because they don't think they can be trusted with it anymore and run to the government to control their lives. And only a pinhead like you would use this sad incident as an excuse to criticize those that don't follow along.
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toobfreak
Conservatives and Republicans DO tend to enforce laws as a group, and that's how Bible scripture is used to invoke, enforce and check the church authority and Constitutional law is used when it comes to govt authority checks and limits.
Liberals tend not to invoke either one, but use party and govt as a substitute for enforcing laws directly, which has compelling power, instead of relying on other leaders to dictate for them.
You are right that Individuals still have to CHOOSE to invoke and enforce these laws ourselves. Nobody can choose for us or it doesn't have the authority of law as "consent of the governed" or free will of the people that makes us the authority behind laws and govt as "social contracts"'
Liberals are not taught they have this power, so they flail in victimhood as individuals fearing they cannot stop bigger oppressive groups from infringing on their rights and freedoms. They flock to party to fill this gap by bullying back.
Instead we as Constitutionalists who do have this knowledge of the laws and how to invoke authority equally and directly, as individuals and in groups, have a social and spiritual responsibility to share this knowledge of the laws with others for equal empowerment and protection.
It isn't fair to allow and enable untrained people with no experience in how to enforce laws for themselves to be bullied and exploited by corporate elitists who abuse this monopoly on laws through the legal and party systems without check because of citizens not knowing the laws and how to enforce them ourselves.
When Luther called for reformation of the Catholic church, he did so by teaching the people to follow the laws directly and to hold each other to these standards. and through that, we invoke church authority equally as any priest does with God's truth and laws through Christ.
Well Jesus as Justice also governs the secular state by the natural laws given in writing in our Constitution. So enforcing these natural laws directly liberates the people to be the govt as Lutheran and Protestant teachings liberated all people to be the church.
The same people make up both the church body and the state body, which are distinct by being governed under separate sets of laws. But Jesus as Equal Justice Under law governs BOTH realms.
Liberals are not taught this, but fear that Republicans Conservatives and Christians have unequal power they can only address by bullying back by party.
We have to set up a better way than that or else parties get abused to screw up govt which is supposed to represent include and protect ALL people of ALL beliefs including parties.
If we unite, left and right, around the Constitution we can protect all our rights freedoms and beliefs equally as the law is intended. If we continue to bully by party and push one belief over another, we violate our own First Amendment rights to keep beliefs out of govt and wonder why we fail. We must respect our own laws if we are going to teach others, and in this way we empower people to be our own govt.
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