When did the GOP stop supporting states' rights?

[bondwooley]

After reaffirming the national motto and deciding that pizza is a vegetable, Congress did something really out of character by voting against states' rights:

It turns out the GOP only cares about states’ rights when it furthers their psychotic agenda. To prove it, the House passed legislation that repeals any state’s right to enforce its laws about concealed weapons on interstate travelers. The bill asserts that California and New York (to name just two examples) have no business enforcing gun-control laws if they infringe on the rights of someone from, say, Utah, to traipse around Brooklyn or San Fran with a concealed weapon licensed by a state with notoriously lax gun-control laws. See, states’ rights can go to hell if a vote jeopardizes a Congressperson’s standing with the NRA.

An outside poll asks what we'll be able to conceal between state next: Weapons of mass destruction? Your 14-year-old sister/girlfriend?

What do you think?

( Original post at: http://lesterandcharlie.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/you-cant-touch-that/ )

[treestar]

1. Depends on the issue and how it fits in with the Republican agenda

If immigration is a federal law, states can enforce it.

If regulation of a product is a federal law, states should not have to put up with that!

[scrubthedata]

2. Hypocrites.

They can't even buy into their own propaganda. It's pathetic.

[KansDem]

3. "Bush v. Gore" is a good example of GOP hypocrisy...nt

[Philosopher King]

4. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right not unlimited.

It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. For example, states may prohibit the possession of firearms by felons and/or those with psychological disorders. Likewise, they may prohibit the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings.

Nevertheless, the 2nd Amendment is an individual right guaranteed by the Constitution. States do not have the power to prohibit the exercise of 1st Amendment rights, 3rd Amendment rights, 4th...5th, etc. What would lead you to believe that they have the power to prohibit 2nd Amendment rights?

However, this legislation is nothing more than a duplication of effort, since the Constitution already includes a clause that addresses this issue.

Article IV - The States

Section 1 - Each State to Honor all others

Clause 1 - Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

[Drale]

5. The minute they started supporting a dictatorship for America. /nt

[vanlassie]

6. About the same time they stopped supporting American products?

[Travis_0004]

7. The 10th admendment states powers not granted to the federal government are left to the states

The second amendment gives the Federal government the ability to regulate interstate issues.

If one state chose not to accept your drivers lisense because the driving test was too easy, how would you feel about that? If a state banned abortion, how would you feel about that.

You can pick on republicans for not supporting states rights, but the fact is on a lot of issues, I'm sure you are against state rights.

[bondwooley]

8. Not against states' rights at all...

Just surprised that the GOP would make any kind of a challenge to the concept, since their huge St. Reagan philosophy is to leave states alone while reducing the federal government's involvement all other affairs. This is against state self-government, at least in some ways. Seems against their doctrine to even touch it with a ten foot pole.