Tom Mullen hosts the Tom Mullen Talks Freedom podcast and is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America. He has also ghostwritten several New York Times bestsellers.
His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, RealClear Markets, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com, 321 Gold! and The Foundation for Economic Education. Tom has been a guest on Fox’s Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Adam Vs. the Man, Free Talk Live, and numerous other programs.
Tom is also a professional musician. His latest CD, Into the Twilight, featuring his free market anthem, “Invisible Hand,” has received airplay at over 150 terrestrial radio stations and tens of thousands of Spotify plays. His music can be found at tommullensings.com.
Tom is originally a native of Buffalo, NY and a graduate of Canisius College. He earned a Master’s Degree in English from State University of New York College at Buffalo. He now resides with his family in Western New York. His podcast episodes and writing can be found at www.tommullentalksfreedom.com.
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excellent article on Washington’s position on Ukraine in the Panam Post
In the article you wrote for FEE, you make the statement below.
And sorry, conservatives, the Second Amendment wasn’t written to keep states from banning guns. Quite the opposite. It was written to reserve the power to ban guns to the states. That’s why most states, even those established after the Bill of Rights was ratified, have clauses in their own constitutions protecting the right to keep and bear arms. They understood the Second Amendment applied only to the federal government, not the states.
I thought the US Constitution was the supremem law of land? Wasn’t one of the readons the second amendment was put in place was so states could not ban guns?
https://fee.org/articles/why-the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-un-american/
No. As I also wrote, the 2nd Amendment (an other amendments in the Bill of Rights) were written solely to restrain the federal government. The 2nd is there to see the federal government exercises no power whatsoever – in either direction – over the right to keep and bear arms. That’s the why the various state constitutions – even those for states that came into existence after the Bill of Rights or 14th Amendment were ratified – had their own Bills of Rights. The federal government began opining on the 2nd Amendment only in the 20th century through a bogus legal argument known as the “Incorporation Doctrine,” which argues the 14th Amendment somehow transformed the Bill of Rights from being solely a bulwark against federal power into a prohibition on states’ power. More on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkG8f5U064Q