Cody Wisniewski: America’s Love Affair With Guns...Blame the Lawyers

Lawyers, Guns, and the US Constitution. Constitutional Attorney Cody Wisniewski fights daily for a voice for the constitution… not for a specific person.  In a strange world view, he feels it is his job to interpret what people who wrote the Constitution meant and stick true to those meanings over 200 years later.  Of course, the 2nd Amendment’s Right to Bear Arms is the hot topic of the day when Bart presses him on whether or not kids have a right to not be shot in a holiday parade. 

 

Bart avoids being contiguous about how the issue of gun rights in today's era of drones and F16  compares to the times in which battles were fought with muskets and cannons. 

 

Cody Wisniewski serves as a senior attorney specializing in Constitutional Litigation at the Firearms Policy Coalition. In his role, he actively challenges governmental attempts to pass laws that infringe upon citizens' rights to bear arms. One such example he highlights is the ongoing geopolitical crisis in Ukraine, where he sees the populace defending itself against tyranny. Additionally, he presents compelling statistics that underscore the correlation between gun-free zones and incidents of mass shootings. 

 

Cody explains that each state has its own constitution and its own ideas of how things should be run and compares some of the differences between states. People who want to protect themselves should be empowered to, Cody argues everyone should have guns. More guns… less crime. That is his argument and he believes every word. 

 

Today’s discussion gamely volleys important questions back and forth, addressing the many facets of one of the most complex and pressing issues facing Americans today: our love affair with guns.

 

Quotes

 

• “Two hundred thirty years ago, a lot of things have changed. And so you're trying to interpret their intent, but you can't imagine they're perfect, because they kind of forgot about, oh, let’s say women and black people and voting…I feel the same way about people that quote 2000-year-old scriptures of any religion. I just feel like, look, it's a great book, but...” (3:41 | Bart)
• “It feels like it should be a right to have my kid go to school, or walk in a parade on Fourth of July and not get murdered.” (5:36 | Bart)
• “We know by preventing people from possessing arms, you do not make them safer. The vast majority of public shootings in the United States occur in gun-free zones. We know for a fact that shooters target places where they know that people are disarmed.” (6:02 | Cody)
• “The beauty of the Constitution is that it was written to be everlasting. It wasn't written to constrain us to what  the world looked like in 1776.” (9:41 | Cody)
• “The system that we have, a constitutional republic is, as far as I can tell, the clearest balance that you have that empowers people to be able to live their lives as they want to. It's not the role of government to tell people what they have to do, how they have to live, what they have to buy. That’s not the role of especially the federal government but the state governments as well.” (13:21 | Cody) 
• “So if you had your own island, and you were the creator, and all mighty president, you would let everybody have a gun in church, in a grocery store? Absolutely, if they want them…You have to empower the people to protect themselves.” (15:46 | Bart and Cody) 

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