The big lie of “originalism.”

Supreme Court Justices often justify their decisions by claiming to be “originalists,” or “textualists,” and no one wishes to be considered “activist.’

The reason: They can hide behind the framers of the Constitution in a “Don’t-blame-me. The-law-forces-my-opinion. If-you-don’t-like-the-law,-change-it” exercise.

Justices are people. They have beliefs and prejudices that have built up over many years. Based on those beliefs and prejudices, they want cases to go a certain way.

You may think that in making a decision, a justice first researches the Constitution for guidance, and then refreshes with a comb-through of previous decisions. finally to amalgamate it all into a decision.

The reality seems quite the opposite.

Based on the decisions themselves, it seems clear that the decision usually comes first, and then the research is done to justify it.

How else could there be predictably “right-wing” and “left-wing” justices? They all read the same Constitution. They all have the same precedents before them. They all know the same law.

Yet most of the time, they vote along “party” lines. That is why the GOP was in such a hurry to nominate Amy Coney Barrett. Barring a rare surprise, they know how she will rule.

Unless you believe it is all coincidence, there is only one way in which you repeatedly see the same justices making the same “right” or “left” decisions: Their minds are made up beforehand, and then they search for justification.

And that is why “originalism” and “textualism” are monstrous lies. In truth, all justices are activists.

ORIGINALISM:

In the context of United States law, originalism is a concept regarding the interpretation of the Constitution that asserts that all statements in the constitution must be interpreted based on the original understanding “at the time it was adopted”.

This concept views the Constitution as stable from the time of enactment and that the meaning of its contents can be changed only by the steps set out in Article Five. This notion stands in contrast to the concept of the Living Constitution, which asserts that the Constitution should be interpreted based on the context of the current times, even if such interpretation is different from the original interpretations of the document.

Originalism, a term that was adopted in the 1980s, is related to:

TEXTUALISM:

Textualism is a formalist theory in which the interpretation of the law is primarily based on the ordinary meaning of the legal text, where no consideration is given to non-textual sources, such as intention of the law when passed, the problem it was intended to remedy, or significant questions regarding the justice or rectitude of the law.

ACTIVISM:

Making decisions based on personal political views or considerations rather than on the law as written or intended. This is closely related to the concept of the Living Constitution.

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To the right-wing, “activist” is what left-leaning justices are called, when their decisions disagree with the right-wing. In truth, all justices, left and right, are activists.

The ostensible, though often subtle, difference between originalism and textualism is the former looks for the intent of the authors and the latter is more strict in following the actual meaning of the words. The real difference comes up when a Justice shifts between the two, in trying to justify a position.

All Justices are originalist and textualist and activist, with the degree depending on the subject.

The conclusion: Originalism/Textualism does not really exist. It is an excuse for a decision by a Justice who has his/her mind locked by political or emotional biases.

The “king,” though not the originator of the term “originalism” was Antonin Scalia, who proudly defended originalism this way:

“Non-originalists must agonize over what the modern Constitution ought to mean with regard to (various) subjects,” and then agonize over the very same questions five or 10 years later, because times change.”

Because, for instance, abortion and LGBTQ rights weren’t specifically granted in the Constitution they, in Scalia’s opinion, were not rights. Being an originalist made his job easier, he said.

In short, Scalia boasted about how not having to agonize about decisions as times change makes his job easier, as though the ease of his workload was more important than making decisions appropriate to changing circumstances. And this lazy concept is widely respected?

Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett are today’s self-proclaimed originalists.

Proudly “originalist” Justice Neil Gorsuch said:

“A good originalist judge will not hesitate to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution’s original meaning, regardless of contemporary political consequences. Whether that means . . . prohibiting the government from slapping a GPS tracking device on the underside of your car without a warrant (the Fourth Amendment) . . . “

” . . . often enough it may be tempting for a judge to do what he thinks best for society in the moment, to bend the law a little to an end he desires, to trade just a bit of judicial integrity for political expediency.”

Whoa, “originalist” Justice Gorsuch. Where does the Constitution mention GPS tracking devices, or for that matter, cars? Aren’t you bending the law a little for political expediency? Yes, but this is different, right? No, wrong.

How does a Fourth Amendment prohibition against “unreasonable searches and seizures” textually prohibit GPS tracking devices? Is a GPS a “search”? Is a GPS a “seizure”? Is it “unreasonable”? Where are these definitions in the Constitution?

Is observing someone by using binoculars, or standing close and overhearing, or merely following someone, an unreasonable search or a seizure? And aren’t you liable to commit the “crime” of “agonizing over the very same questions five or 10 years later, because times change” every time a new observation device is invented?

Justice Amy Comey Barrett: “[Originalism] means that I interpret the Constitution as a law, that I interpret its text as text and I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. So that meaning doesn’t change over time. And it’s not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it.”

But if she is interpreting it “as text,” where is the interpretation?

Soon she will rule on hot button items like the Affordable Care Act and abortion. One wonders on what specific text in the Constitution she will rely.

The classic example of how the “isms” may be used and twisted come with the 2nd Amendment:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

“Well-regulated”: Why did the framers say not just “regulated,” but “well-regulated”? Clearly, they recognized the real danger inherent in people keeping and bearing deadly Arms, but felt this danger was acceptable for the security of America, so long as it was part of a well-regulated Militia, and not solely composed of gun-nuts.

“Militia”: Defined as a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. The purpose of the people keeping and bearing arms is not for hunting, target shooting, or for self-protection. The purpose is to be ready on a moment’s notice, to supplement the regular army.

“Keeping and bearing”: As part of a well-regulated Militia, the people can store and carry Arms.

“Arms”: Here’s where the originalists and textualists really have to twist and turn, because they have no idea what this term means. Currently, it seems to include modern weapons that did not exist when the Constitution was written, which certainly should disqualify them from textualism and arguably from originalism.

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But it gets even worse. There seems to be some tacit agreement that “Arms” includes semi-automatic weapons, but does not include automatic rifles. (You can get one, but the process is difficult, slow, and expensive, and you have to have a perfectly clean record.)

Where is that distinction anywhere in the Constitution? An honest reading by an originalist or a textualist would hold that neither intent nor text could include weapons that were not even conceived of by the framers, and certainly not by any difference between semi-automatic and automatic.

Making such a distinction would be considered activist, unless it’s made by a right-wing justice, in which case its originalist — somehow.

Will Amy Comey Barrett understand the 2nd Amendment to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it — well-regulated militia, flintlock pistols and all?

Don’t bet on it.

The most hilarious distinction was made by the spiritual leader of originalism, Antonin Scalia, who somehow was able to justify eliminating all first thirteen words of the Second Amendment, while still not being considered “activist.”

Shall we assume his being not only a right-winger but, like his grandfather, an avid hunter — a member of the International Order of St. Hubertus, a “secretive society of elite hunters,” — had nothing to do with his decision?

In summary:

Depending on the subject, there are no originalist justices. There are no textualists. All justices are activists, some more so than others. Don’t believe any justice who says otherwise.

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Unleashing the guard dog: The misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

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A story: Imagine that you live in a dangerous neighborhood, where robberies, burglaries, and other attacks are common. Image result for leashed vicious dog

So you buy a big rottweiler, or a pit bull, or some other kind of “attack” dog. And everywhere you go, you keep this dog with you for protection.

You take your dog for licensed obedience training because that is your town’s new law. And you keep your dog on a leash because that also is your town’s new law:

“A licensed, well-trained, supervised, and leashed dog, being necessary to the security of a town resident, the right of the people to keep and walk dogs, shall not be infringed.”

And indeed, should you fail to take your dog for licensed, obedience training, and should you fail to keep your dog on a leash, you could be arrested, fined, and your dog taken from you.

As a result of the new “dog law,” you and many other good people of your town buy licensed, trained dogs, which always are kept on leashes, and the incidence of robberies, burglaries, and other attacks declines.

It is true that some bad people in your town buy unlicensed, untrained dogs, which are not kept on leashes. And these dogs have attacked people.

But, there always are law-breakers in every town, and that fact is no reason not to have laws.

On balance, the registered-training, control, and leash laws have helped protect the community.

Sadly, in your town, the local, conservative, “originalist” judges rule that in the law, the words, “A licensed, well-trained, controlled, and leashed dog, being necessary to the security of a town resident” have no meaning.

So now, anyone can own vicious, untrained attack dogs, and let them out unleashed and unsupervised.

And as could be expected, the number of dog attacks — including attacks by multiple dogs — increases dramatically. Many people are terribly injured. Many people die.

Which brings me to this article:

The Second Amendment has failed America
By, Joel Mathis

Enough. No more. Stop.

The gun massacres in America are now coming so quickly, one after another, that it’s impossible to process our grief and anger before the next one occurs.

There is a sickness in our land, and it cries out for an immediate, righteous, and even radical response.

And we can start by understanding and declaring that the Second Amendment is a failure.

It’s not just a failure because guns are used so widely, and to such ill effect. The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a failure because the right to bear arms — the right it so famously defends — is supposed to protect Americans from violence. Instead, it endangers them.

As the conservative National Review noted last year, “supporters of a right to bear arms have rooted their arguments in a murky pre-constitutional right to self-defense.”

The right to bear arms is based on an old understanding in English common law: If somebody attacks you, you have the right to protect yourself.

There’s nothing controversial about that, is there?

The language of self-defense was made explicit in D.C. vs Heller, the 2008 Supreme Court ruling cementing individual gun rights.

“The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”

We interrupt Mathis’s article to explain that Scalia was a self-described “originalist.” That means he claimed to believe:

The interpretation of a written constitution or law should be based on what reasonable persons living at the time of its adoption would have understood the ordinary meaning of the text to be.

For two hundred years, the 2nd Amendment was interpreted to mean exactly what the framers said (“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state . . .)

During WWII, we used to have well-regulated militias in the United States. My father belonged to one. He didn’t own a gun himself, but the militia owned them.

The purpose of those militias was to back up the army in protecting the nation, not as “defense within the home,” which is the job of the local police.

(The irony and falsity of the “home defense” theory is that statistically, if you have a gun in your home, you are more likely to be shot than if you don’t.)

Then in 2008, the conservative arm of the Supreme Court, led by self-annointed “originalist” and famous gun lover, Justice Antonin Scalia, decided that though the framers explicitly referenced “a well-regulated militia,” they really didn’t mean it.

And they really didn’t mean “the security of a free state,” either. Scalia and the other originalists decided that what the framers really said had nothing to do with a militia or a free state.

Rather, what they supposedly meant is: “Any boob who can fog a mirror has the right not only to own guns in his home, but to carry them in the streets. No regulated militia or security of the free state is necessary.“

(One wonders why the framers were not wise enough to say it that way.)

The result of this decision has been mayhem, with not just daily shootings, but daily mass shootings.

I suggest Scalia’s tombstone be engraved:

“Here lies Antonin Gregory Scalia, who has abetted the mass murder of thousands, which continues to this day.”

Continuing Mathis’s article:

But in reality, guns are used far more often on offense, by bad guys who have easy access to deadly firepower in unthinkable quantities.

On balance, guns do more harm in America than good. The damages are easily measured, while the benefits are mostly theoretical and rare.

This means the Second Amendment, as currently observed, doesn’t actually work under the terms of its own logic.

In recognizing this, America doesn’t have to throw away a formal right to self-defense, or eliminate guns entirely.

But it’s time to reexamine Second Amendment rights with a bigger emphasis on the amendment’s underlying justification, which is to help Americans be and feel safe, and less emphasis on the right to carry a deadly weapon.

Despite Scalia and his conservative accomplices, we do have a few laws about guns. We disallow fully automatic guns. (Why? Where is that in the 2nd Amendment?)

And we disallow felons from having guns. And we require a minimal amount of licensing. (Where does the Constitution state those restrictions?).

At any rate, the stated purpose of the 2nd Amendment is not “to help Americans feel and be safe,” but rather to protect the “free state,” i.e to protect America.

Now that a disingenuous Supreme Court has completely perverted the meaning and purpose of the 2nd Amendment, where do we go from here?

It probably is too late to start over. The above-mentioned boobs already have millions of guns.

But if the right wing Supreme Court would allow, we could follow the entire 2nd Amendment, not just the last few words.

Perhaps the state National Guards could function as the militia, and they could dole out guns only as needed for the security of America — just as the 2nd Amendment says.

Additionally, two possibilities are these laws:

1. Any person who commits a felony while carrying a gun, shall be sentenced to a prison term of 20 years to life, in addition to the term for the felony itself.

2. Any provider of a gun that is used in a felony shall have the same criminal and civil liability as the actual perpetrator of the felony. (This latter is similar to the “dram shop” laws for liquor.)

At a minimum, we should stop pretending that the 2nd Amendment says what it clearly doesn’t and allow communities to enact laws that will reduce the killing.

See: Do guns really kill people?

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The 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Wayne LaPierre, NRA: The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.

We Almost Had 3 Mass Shootings Last Week

Vester Flanagan opened fire on two journalists on live television in Virginia.

Eighteen hours earlier in neighboring West Virginia, a boy walked into his high-school and pointed a pistol at his teacher’s head.

Forty-five hours before that, Boston police announced they stopped two men from massacring a Pokemon convention.

It is not known whether Flanagan belonged to a well-regulated militia that is protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

It’s Called Gendercide Armed Husbands Shoot Eight Women In One Week, Six Die

While the nation was trying to digest the crime of two media members killed on camera in Virginia by a legal gun owner, a spate of women killed by enraged armed husbands in one week received less notice.

James Terry Colley, Jr. shot and killed his wife Amanda Cloaninger and her friend Lindy Dobbins in St. Augustine, Florida on August 27 say police.

It is not known whether Colley belonged to a well-regulated militia that is protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

Blessing Okereke was fatally shot in the Bank of America tower in Oak Cliff in Dallas by her husband say police. Husband David Thompson told police he believed his wife was reaching for his pistol, so he shot her in self-defense. Right.

August 30, Nuria N. Kudlach was fatally shot at her home in State College, PA and her husband was charged with first- and third-degree murder.

It is not known whether Okereke or Kudlach belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

The next day, August 31, Sonja Wells Raine was fatally shot on her job in Pascagoula, MS by her enraged husband according to police.

Raine’s “sister got killed the same way by her boyfriend or husband, so that is shocking,” said co-worker Kim Pinkney.

The next day, September 1, 76-year-old Norman McKinney of Erwin, Tennessee, allegedly killed his wife of 30 years. McKinney was elderly, “had two or three strokes” and other “medical issues” and couldn’t even dial a phone explained the sheriff.

It is not known whether Raine or McKinney belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

Thirty-three thousand people were killed by guns in America in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control, a rate that’s higher than any other developed country on the planet.

It is not known whether the shooters belong to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

Between last Friday, July 17, and Thursday, July 23, there were at least 15 reports of murder-suicides committed with guns in the United States:

Friday, July 17, Chicago. A 38-year-old man is believed to have shot and stabbed his 72-year-old father and his 29-year-old brother at the father’s home, killing them, before shooting and killing himself.

Friday, July 17, Monrovia, California. A 35-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 37-year-old wife before killing himself.

Friday, July 17, Norman, Oklahoma. A man is believed to have shot and killed his ex-wife and then killed himself in a hospital parking lot. The woman was at the hospital visiting her mother.

Friday, July 17, Perry Hall, Maryland. A 47-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 12- and 10-year-old sons before killing himself.

Friday, July 17, Mauldin, South Carolina. A 34-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 37-year-old brother before killing himself.

Saturday, July 18, North Ridgeville, Ohio. A 65-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 62-year-old wife before killing himself. The woman may have been protecting the couple’s disabled 26-year-old daughter when she was shot.

Saturday, July 18, Tampa. A 32-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 23-year-old girlfriend at a hotel before killing himself.

Sunday, July 19, Grady County, Georgia. A 55-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his estranged 39-year-old wife at her home, then to have driven to his home and killed himself.

Tuesday, July 21, Bear, Delaware. A 35-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed a 34-year-old woman before killing himself.

Tuesday, July 21, Amherst, New York. A 53-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 55-year-old wife before killing himself.

Tuesday, July 21, Walnut Creek, California. A 21-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed a 19-year-old woman at her parents’ house before killing himself.

Wednesday, July 22, Jacksonville, North Carolina. A 69-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 68-year-old wife before killing himself.

Wednesday, July 22, Suwanee, Georgia. A man is believed to have shot and killed his wife and her two sons before killing himself. He also shot and injured his wife’s father.

Thursday, July 23, Vallejo, California. A man is believed to have shot and killed his ex-wife and injured another man before killing himself.

Thursday, July 23, Mason County, Washington. A 52-year-old man is believed to have killed a 17-month-old child before killing himself.

It is not known whether the shooters belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims (including the 17-month-old) were good guys who should have carried guns to shoot back.

And then there are just some of the school shootings since 2010:

14-year-old Hammad Memon shot to death 14-year-old Todd Brown in a crowded school hallway of Discovery Middle School, during changing of classes. The shooting was possibly motivated by gang activities.

Amy Bishop Anderson, a biology professor, shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting.

At eer Creek Middle School Bruco Eastwood opened fire from a Winchester Model 70 rifle in a parking lot. Two eight-grade students, one female and one male, were both shot and wounded.

Two students were shot and wounded in front of Mumford High School. A 17-year-old man, Steven Jamal Hare, was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill.

15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros was shot to death on an athletic field at Alisal High School. Cisneros was walking to the school campus at 8 a.m., and was shot multiple times.

Samuel Hengel, 15, took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. (When) police entered the building, Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.

Outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was shot and wounded. The wounds caused her to be paralyzed. Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon, 20, fired shots from a car while students were standing outside the high school.

At Millard South High School, student Robert Butler Jr., 18, shot and killed Assistant Principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar, and wounded Principal Curtis Case.

Schnell Elementary School Principal Sam Lacara is shot to death in his office, by John Luebbers, a custodial employee at the school.

Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen.

Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year-old former student named Tremaine De Ante’ Paul, died. Five other people received injuries.

A 14-year-old male student is accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student.

A 15-year-old girl was shot in the neck at Cape Fear High School. A student of the school,15-year-old Charles Underwood, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a part-time business student at Radford University, shot and killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech, then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot.

One student was shot and injured after another student opened fire at North Forest High School. The student said that he was being confronted by three other students who were bullying him, and he took out a handgun and fired at them in self-defense.

Third-grader Amina Kocer-Bowman was accidentally shot when a fellow student brought a 9mm handgun to school and it went off when he dropped his backpack. She survived after 6 weeks in the hospital and a surgery to remove the bullet from her spine.

Thomas “T. J.” Lane, 17, took a Ruger MK III,.22 caliber Semi-automatic pistol and a knife to Chardon High School and fired ten shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Three students died in the attack. Three other students were injured.

At Episcopal School of Jacksonville, fired Spanish teacher Shane Schumerth, 28, shot and killed head of school Dale Regan before committing suicide.

One L. Goh was accused of shooting to death seven students and wounding three others in a classroom at Oikos University.

A Carrboro man was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman in front of Mary Scroggs Elementary School.

Two Hamilton High School students were shot and wounded in the parking lot of the school.

Robert Gladden, 15, took a double barrel shotgu to Perry Hall High School and fired two shots inside the school cafeteria. A 17-year-old senior was hit in the lower back while he was sitting at a table and suffered critical wounds.

A student fired multiple gunshots in the ceiling of Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher.

At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and a man pulled out a handgun and shot a rival gang member, Geno Hall, seven times, critically wounding him.

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school.

Shots were fired at Apostolic Revival Center Christian School, leaving 27-year-old Kristopher Smith dead in what was believed to be a retaliation killing, possibly for talking with police about a previous incident.

A gunman entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a 12 gauge shotgun and opened fire. A 16-year-old male student, identified as Bowe Cleveland, was shot in the chest and critically wounded.

A gunman shot an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, wounding him. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, shot and wounded himself on a stairwell.

Two people were shot and killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham was arrested and charged with three counts of murder.

A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University.

Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student.

An argument over turf and respect between two rival gangs escalated to what police now describe as a “gun battle” in January at Cesar Chavez High School in Phoenix.

A 14-year-old male student was shot and wounded in the back of the neck at Price Middle School. The gunman, a student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before taking out a handgun and firing multiple shots at him.

Two women were wounded during a shooting at the campus of New River Community College. Neil Allen MacInnis was taken into custody.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a campus police officer was shot multiple times.

Allegedly responding to a student fight, a parent brought and fired a weapon on the campus of Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School. No one was injured.

Six people, including the shooter died and four others were wounded at or near the campus of Santa Monica College when a lone gunman opened fire on the school campus library after shooting at several cars and a city bus at separate crime scenes.

Two custodians at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School were shot and killed. A third custodian was suspected in the killings .

A man with an AK-47 fired six shots inside the front office of Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, an elementary school. After the gunman fired the shots, he barricaded himself in the office and police at the scene returned fire.

A student, Roderick Bobo, 15, was shot during a football game at North Panola High School in what was termed as a gang-related shooting.

A 15-year-old male student was shot in the neck and shoulder at Carver High School (North Carolina). An 18-year-old male student was apprehended by a school resource officer without incident.

A 16-year-old student was shot in the hip at Agape Christian Academy after a fight broke out at 2 pm.

12-year-old seventh-grade student Jose Reyes opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun at the basketball courts of Sparks Middle School, injuring one student in the shoulder. A teacher, Michael Landsberry, who was trying to intervene with the gunman was then shot and killed by Reyes, as he was standing on a playground.

A 21-year-old student was shot and wounded at North Carolina A&T State University.

A Stephenson High School student and a janitor were shot in an apparent confrontation between team members and a group of teens who were not attending the school.

After classes ended, at least one gunman came out of the woods and opened fire on three students as they were walking to their cars at Brashear High School. One student was grazed in the head, another was struck in the neck and shoulder, and a third was hit in the leg and foot.

A 15-year-old student was shot and wounded by a 17-year-old student near a soccer field on the campus of West Orange High School (Winter Garden, Florida). The shooting occurred after a fight broke out between the two students.

18-year-old Karl Pierson shot 17-year-old student Claire Davis in the head, fatally injuring her, in a hallway in Arapahoe High School (Centennial, Colorado).

Four teens went into Edison High School (Fresno, California) in what was believed as a gang-initiation process. After accosting a 62-year-old woman about a mile away from school grounds, they found an athletic trainer who taught at Edison High and shot him several times in the leg and stomach.

A student was charged with bringing a gun to school at Liberty Technology Magnet High School and shooting a classmate in the thigh.

A 14-year-old boy was shot outside of a basketball game at the Hillhouse High School athletic facility, suffering wounds in his hand and leg.<

Two people were shot and wounded inside the gymnasium of Berrendo Middle School, at about 8:10 am. An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas in critical condition. The 12-year-old suspected shooter, Mason Campbell, a seventh grade student, was apprehended at the scene after he was talked down by a staff member and dropped the shotgun.

A student allegedly shot two other students in the gymnasium at Delaware Valley Charter School.

One person was shot and critically injured at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania.

A 21-year-old student, Andrew Boldt, was shot and killed in a classroom building on the campus of Purdue University. A suspect, 24-year-old student Cody Cousins, was arrested and charged with murder.

A 20-year-old student was shot and killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder.

A man was shot and killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting.

A group of students at Rebound High School got in an argument in the school’s parking lot. One student pulled out a gun and shot another student in the ensuing altercation.

One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University.

Three students were fighting in a parking lot of Eastern Florida State College and one pulled out a gun and shot another of the students. All three student claimed self-defense.

After a basketball game at North High School (Des Moines), there was gunfire in a parking lot of the school.

|A 16-year-old student was shot in the stomach on the campus of Salisbury High School (North Carolina) during a dispute in the school gym. 17-year-old suspect was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

Five shots were fired in the parking lot of Charles F. Brush High School, including one which hit an unoccupied police car.

A male victim was shot in the back in a possible gang-related drive-by shooting near the University of Southern California. The suspect fled into the University Campus.

An elementary school teacher was shot and killed outside The Academy of Knowledge Preschool.

An argument between students led to shots being fired in a Benjamin Banneker High School (Georgia) parking lot during the afternoon.

Just after the lunch hour, at D. H. Conley High School, a car drove past the school and witnesses said an occupant reached out of a car window and fired shots in the direction of the school.

After a Friday evening student awards ceremony called “Grammy Night”, four men who were affiliated with a gang fired into a crowd in the parking lot of East English Village Preparatory Academy; one nineteen-year-old teen, Darryl Smith, was fatally shot in the head.

A man fatally shot his estranged wife in the parking lot of Saint Mary School in northwestern Indiana.

Two men fired shots inside a dormitory at Paine College on Sunday, injuring one student in the head.

An active shooter situation was reported at Paine College on Monday with one person reported to be shot. It was the second shooting incident to occur at the college campus in two days.

A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College.

A 14-year-old student was injured during a drive-by shooting in front of John F. Kennedy High School (Richmond, California).

Three people were shot inside a hallway in Seattle Pacific University. One student died.

At around 8:30 am, shots were fired at Reynolds High School (Troutdale, Oregon). 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman was killed. The gunman, 15-year-old Jared Padgett, exchanged gunfire with police officers and then committed suicide in a restroom stall.

A 20-year-old Indiana State University (ISU) student was shot by another ISU on Saturday inside a residence hall.

Two students got in an argument at Albemarle High School (North Carolina), and one of the students shot the other twice including once in the leg.

One student was shot and injured at Fern Creek Traditional High School. The incident occurred, reportedly after student became enraged in a hallway and pulled out a gun.

After a homecoming football game, a fatal shooting of Kristofer Hunter, 17, occurred in the Langston Hughes High School parking lot. The assailant, Eric Dana Johnson Jr., 18, turned himself in a week later.

Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting. A gunman, later identified as Jaylen Fryberg, who was a student in the school, shot five students, fatally wounding four, in the school cafeteria before committing suicide.

Florida State University shooting. A gunman opened fired in or near the Strozier Library. Three people suffered gunshot injuries and were taken to a local area hospital.

Two teens were shot Thursday during a fight on Miami Carol City High School property. One of the boys who was shot died.

On December 12, 2014, an unknown gunman shot three students and a man outside Rosemary Anderson High School in north Portland. A 16-year-old girl was in critical condition, while the others suffered minor injuries.

A 15-year-old boy, a student’s father, and a teacher were each injured at a Wisconsin Lutheran High School shooting that occurred Thursday night in the school parking lot at Wisconsin Lutheran High School.

Two students were shot outside Frederick High School near the gymnasium of Frederick High School during a junior varsity (JV) boy’s basketball game.

Two students argued outside the music building at Bethune-Cookman University when one pulled out a gun. Both had guns and it is not disclosed who did the shooting, injuring three students.

Police said one person has been arrested for a shooting at Pershing Elementary School.

A faculty member was shot and killed in the school library of Wayne Community College.

A police officer was shot outside a school in a school zone while he was directing school buses into a school. The school was J.B. Martin Middle School, and the suspect was apprehended at the scene.

A student at Deskin Elementary School brought an allegedly stolen .45 caliber gun to school and accidentally discharged it as he opened his backpack.

A student at North Thurston High School walked into the commons area and fired two shots into the ceiling from a .357 magnum pistol.

Police say a 14-year-old eighth grade boy brought his father’s gun to school.

An 18-year-old student, Marcus Wheeler, shot himself in a school breezeway, according to Tempe police.

Police report that a 16-year-old shot 5 bullets into a school bus and injured 2 students. Apparently, there was an argument that touched on previous events.

In the early morning hours of Memorial Day weekend, a group of people were at Southwestern Classical Academy in the parking lot. Shots rang out and 7 were injured, with two men being apprehended and charged.

A student was fatally shot in a student union building at Savannah State University.

A man was arguing with at least one other person escalated into a physical fight on the parking lot of Sacramento City College. A man opened fire, killing a 25-year-old student and wounding two others.

It is not known whether the shooters belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims (including the teens) were good guys who should have carried guns to shoot back.

When everyone carries guns, we all will be safe from gun violence.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)
10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
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10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK
Monetary Sovereignty

Recessions come after the blue line drops below zero.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

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