However, since 9/11, I have questioned the veracity of many news reports and claims issued by officialdom about terrorism and mass shootings. The government and its media have been caught hundreds of times lying about or twisting news stories, so I believe skepticism is entirely warranted.
That said, I am now convinced the First Amendment is a dead letter. I have felt that way for some time. Recent events put a capstone on my previous arguments that much of the Bill of Rights is dead. This was recently underscored by the persecution of activist and author Jim Fetzer for writing a book that claims the massacre at Sandy Hook never happened.
A Wisconsin jury has ruled that James Fetzer, a retired professor from the University of Minnesota Duluth, must pay [Leonard] Pozner $450,000 for accusing him of forging his son Noah’s death certificate. Fetzer is the coauthor of Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, which alleges that Pozner faked his son’s birth certificate and that the Obama administration staged the shooting in an effort to pass legislation on gun control.
The ruling and “award” granted to the plaintiff will undoubtedly drive Fetzer to financial ruin if it is not overturned on appeal—and I predict it will stand. This court case is a pivotal moment for those who work to eradicate free speech, a right granted to those who make controversial statements or write books some people find objectionable.
The right to speak guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution includes the right to voice opinions, criticize others, and comment on matters of public interest. It also protects the use of hyperbole and extreme statements when it is clear these are rhetorical ploys. Accordingly, you can safely state your opinion that others are inept, stupid, jerks, failures, etc. even though these statements might hurt the subject’s feelings or diminish their reputations. Such terms represent what is called “pure opinions” because they can’t be proven true or false. As a result, they cannot form the basis for a defamation claim.
Every time an officer uses a gun against an innocent or an unarmed person contributes to the culture of gun violence in this country.”—Journalist Celisa Calacal
Here’s what we’ve learned about the government’s gun violence since Ferguson, according to The Washington Post: If you’re a black American, you’ve got a greater chance of being shot by police. If you’re an unarmed black man, you’re four times more likely to be killed by police than an unarmed white man. Most people killed by police are young men. Since 2015, police have shot and killed an average of 3 people per day. More than 2,500 police departments have shot and killed at least one person since 2015. And while the vast majority of people shot and killed by police are armed, their weapons ranged from guns to knives to toy guns. READ MORE HERE:
The National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt advocacy organization under section 501(c)4 of the IRC. Contributions or gifts to NAGR are not tax deductible for IRS purposes. The National Association for Gun Rights’ mailing address is P.O. Box 1776, Loveland, Colorado 80539. They can be contacted toll-free at 1-877-405-4570. Its web address is www.NationalGunRights.org
As you read this, the MASSIVE government spending bill containing a “Red Flag” gun confiscation AND Universal Gun Registration is in the middle of final negotiations in St. Paul. More
My new year’s resolution is to expose the hypocrisy of the morally superior politicians whose election strategy was to pretend they cared about crafting policies in the country’s best interest.
Multimillionaire Nancy (“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” and if you disagree with me you are sexist) Pelosi is safe in her Napa Wine Country or San Francisco home, far from the drug addicts, dirty needles, feces, gang members and homeless lining the streets of San Francisco. Her voters may be too uninformed or willfully blind to see what she and her ilk have done to this formerly beautiful city. Sadly, the nation will be forced to suffer from her policies that reward scofflaws, patronize the poor, create dependency, and are designed to hustle votes.
Because their lives are so much more precious than ours, the power brokers have their private security and the medical care of their choice. They also have no shame.
My new year’s resolution is to expose the hypocrisy of the morally superior politicians whose election strategy was to pretend they cared about crafting policies in the country’s best interest.
Take “the wall” on our southern border. Ignoring the opinion of the border patrol agents (51 percent of whom are Hispanic) that it would “without a doubt” be a helpful tool, Nancy Pelosi and her people claimed it would be ineffective in stopping everybody. That’s like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stopping its flu vaccination campaign because the vaccine is only 40-60 percent effective.
And sanctuary state California Senator Kamala Harris was quick to the gun control microphone when some people were shot in a brawl but not a peep out of her when a community is in mourning after its brown-skinned legal immigrant policeman is gunned down at a traffic stop by a twice arrested illegal immigrant. More
Published on Mar 31, 2013 But so relevant today. This is a virtual representation because you know congress would never tolerate this much honesty put right in their faces.
Author,
Chuck Frank
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As many governments in the world are forcing the common people to give up more and more of their rights of privacy but also their rights to defend themselves from either home invasions, those enemies abroad or those enemies of the state that are from within, then one must ask the question, which is the lesser of two evils when it comes to allowing the citizenry to have guns or allowing only the government to have guns.
First of all, America has the second amendment to where the citizenry may be armed to the teeth to protect themselves from invaders, gun slingers or their own government.
Secondly:
There is the U.S. government also armed to the teeth,
meant to protect themselves abroad but also their country at home,
Unfortunately this includes an arsenal of ammunition,
1.6 Billion rounds of ammo purchased during the Obama administration for Homeland Security plus,
for the sake of keeping the peace and upholding the the U.S. Constitution, which is by the way, barely even being followed by law enforcement and the courts.
The increase in privately owned so-called “assault weapons” is in direct response to the militarization of our local law enforcement agencies.
They have become a quasi military entity complete with military fatigues in many instances, military tanks, grenade launchers, sound weapons and an array of other military gizmos and gadgets; all gifted to them at bargain sale prices, via Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. And, aside from your local sheriff (because he/she is elected) all law enforcement is under the control of Homeland Security.
Key to our supposed freedom loving nation, is the 2nd amendment to the Constitution. It is the underpinning to our freedom not just from possible invaders, but primarily, from a tyrannical government that might rear its ugly head and turn on its own people.Maybe we ought to give some real thought to government control. While the Framer’s of the Constitution could not have imagined the coming technologies of the future, nor life as it exists today in these United States, they did recognize the tendencies of governments to expand their power, eventually turning on their own people. History is rife with examples of tyrannical governments all over the globe that have killed off many of their own populations in an effort to obtain total tyranny over them. It appears to me, that we stand on the threshold of having this happen to us; the very thing the Framer’s feared most. What made us think our own government would not eventually turn on us? And turn it has.
With the public carefully being conditioned to believe that private gun ownership is somehow a threat to all of us, that same public turns a blind eye to the threat posed by our own ever expanding police state, brought to you courtesy of your own government.
“As an incentive, Sheriff’s are paid money from the Federal Government every time there is a SWAT Team raid.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Whenever there is a mass shooting at an event or a school, instead of challenging gun rights, should not the people’s cry be, “where was the security guard?” If schools are a target of terrorism, then have a security guard at every large school in the U.S. That is a way better solution than taking guns or having gun control. Gun control in America doesn’t make a lot of sense when a person sees that the country has already drifted towards tyranny where there is a SWAT team-military mentality, presently stemming from law enforcement. For the record, SWAT Teams, now have at their disposal
two models of sub-machine guns that are frequently used which are the 9mm HK MP5, 10mm MP510. or, the .40 / .45 HK UMP or, a 5.7mm FN P90.
This is America, land of the free and home of the brave, right?
As an incentive, Sheriff’s are paid money from the Federal Government every time a SWAT Teams are used in a raid. There’s still more on this subject. Let’s not forget Waco where 80 people were burned to death by the government during the Clinton administration. None dare call it a massacre and yes, the Boston massacre done by the British was far, far less of an event but this small act added one more nail in the coffin of the 13 colonies and those people’s “unrest” which later became the America Revolution of 1776. In a “free” country such as America where there are gun happy law enforcement officers with fire power beyond measure, should not the people be alarmed?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The facilitators who led the St. Louis Presidential debate along with others who were people that had questions for the candidates, actually missed their mark by a million miles.There was no talk of what the candidates had in mind with regard to an ongoing agenda,that is:
the shredding of the U.S. Constitution and personal freedom,
the attack on liberty,
gun rights and
privacy issues, as well as,
massive intrusion through surveillance,
mainstream media control of the news,
nationalized education, (i.e. Common Core and the failings of it),
the internet giveaway,
the police state,
the U.N. Presence already in America,
FEMA camps,
the continuing loss of national sovereignty, and finally,
the danger of open borders that would combine Mexico, the U.S. and Canada into one large, but not so glorious North American Union.
That scene would be a further expression of an already lost populace totally drenched in:
**Note: IF congress allows due process protections to be stripped from those on these massive FBI lists, the premise for that will be quickly adopted by other federal agencies, even those with no interest in guns sales. There is no way this will be limited to the purchasing of guns. The recent event in Orlando was the stage show meant to shock the public into forfeiting their constitutional rights.
Senator Joe Manchin (D) appears not to understand the rights contained in the Constitution. Apparently, the right to due process, the constitutional protection against the very things he advocates, is a thorn in Senator Manchin’s hide. As he himself admits, due process is the firewall that prevents agencies such as the FBI, from adding individuals to lists of suspects….no evidence, no crime….they just decided you belonged on one of their lists.
Manchin goes on to say on on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the right to due process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, had made it difficult to pass gun-control legislation denying those on the FBI’s terror watch list the ability to purchase a firearm. I would assume that with the massive non-stop surveillance that is carried on daily this would be virtually impossible to purchase a gun without the FBI, NSA, CIA and assorted other spy agencies knowing about it immediately. All that spying, all that data collection, the mountains of stolen information about everyone in the country……and the FBI couldn’t stop this man from purchasing guns?
Question: How can a man be employed by a security company that protects federal buildings among other things, and still be employed by that company if he is suspected of possible terrorism? More
Some candidates including Trump and Cruz support the right of Americans to own effective tools of self defense. But none are talking about the long-standing official government stance of keeping Americans as vulnerable hostages to nuclear weapons.
It is terrible that Americans can get shot at a Christmas party, but much worse will happen if we don’t confront the problems beginning at the top.
After every shooting episode the response is the same formula: constant media coverage, much of it fact-free, and calls for thoughts, prayers—and still more gun control. It’s time to take a broader perspective than a focus on the dozens of individual tragedies.
Today, Americans are targets. Not just individual Americans, but also the United States of America. They are targeted by deranged individuals, by fanatical ideologues, by drug cartels, by terrorist organizations, and by foreign powers, some of whom have intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple independently targeted nuclear warheads aimed at American cities.
Our thoughts need to turn to what is really going on, and our prayers need to include “God save the United States of America.”
We have pervasive surveillance of our financial transactions, our telephone and electronic communications, our medical records, and our movements. The government has enormous powers of search and seizure, many unthinkable to drafters of our Fourth Amendment, and these are used against Americans engaged in normal business that threatens no one. We already have lots of gun control laws.
So how were terrorists in San Bernadino able to accumulate bomb-making material, an arsenal of weapons both legal and illegal, and body armor, without spurring any action by the authorities?
Terrorists have also engaged in operations that don’t yet have any poster children but that are far more dangerous than shooting up a Christmas party, such as disabling a key electrical substation. This shows the capacity for coordinated, sophisticate operations that could cripple the electricity grid for a long time.
Candidates such as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz call for controlling illegal immigration—surely necessary, but insufficient. The San Bernardino terrorists were here legally.
Here are the real issues that we need to discuss:
Americans are mostly helpless victims. The government that is supposed to protect us, though awesomely powerful, appears to be incompetent, corrupt, or—dare we suggest it?—on the other side.Americans are divided by a culture of grievances.America is dangerously weak.Foreign policy is recklessly provocative. More
There is a master plan to take away every piece of liberty and unalienable right of the people which includes private property in every Nation State in the world. Yes, and America is included in this mix.
To better understand where the world is today, here is a historical perspective. Thomas Jefferson warned America of the Belgium Brussels Bankers 200 years ago. Now, let’s connect the dots. Besides creating enormous debt throughout the world, these slave masters of Brussels, along with the Brussels “European Commission”, are now using the French/Muslim crises to kick start the disarming of private citizens in the entire Euro- Zone. This is the beginning of the not so new master plan which “just happened” to be ready when the right crises came along.
Brussels has but one agenda which is two fold. Create money out of thin air and charge interest thereby building a larger and more powerful elite kingdom, while disarmament then becomes the EU bankers, ace in the hole, disallowing the people’s ability to keep
Brussels and the European Union in check. More
The anti-gun lobby has to share responsibility for the nine people shot to death at a Bible study in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17.
Why?
Because thanks to the disarmament brigade, the government of South Carolina assured Dylann Roof, or whoever the triggerman was, that once the shooter was inside the church, nobody would be shooting back.
South Carolina, you see, has a concealed-carry law that expressly forbids anyone bringing a gun into a church.
If you have a license to carry a gun except in certain places — like churches — then those certain places become government-sanctioned shooting galleries. Churches in South Carolina are free-fire zones.
The goody-two-shoes lobby that wrote that caveat into the state’s restrictive firearms law set those nine victims up for target practice.
They probably argued at the time it was enacted that they were protecting parishioners from anyone wielding a gun.
All the evidence shows how wrong they were. The only one protected by that law was the shooter. That means nobody else had a chance.
Disarmament is high on the agenda of National Socialism, just as it was when the Nazi scourge ran the table in Europe. Make sure the oppressed can’t fight back so they’ll all trudge off happily to Auschwitz.
It might escape attention elsewhere, but the massacre in Charleston occurred on what is celebrated as Bunker Hill Day in Massachusetts.
That provides us an opportunity to mention the gun control laws that were in effect in colonial times.
In 17th century Massachusetts, everyone was taxed to support the Congregational Society (the state church) and everyone was required to attend Sunday worship services at the meeting house. All able-bodied inhabitants were required to bring their weapons to church. That was the law.
Take your time to chew on that.
Families were required to bring their guns to church. Sentinels were posted at the doors. The manufacture of gun powder was a staple industry at the time. Journeys from home to Sunday services could be arduous and dangerous. They had to deal with hostile Indians. Wild beasts still prowled the wilderness the way deranged killers stalk gathering places today.
The message was simple: for your own sake and the sake of others, make sure you are armed. That was the law.
The progressives — the Nazis of today passing as Democrats — are a thousand times dumber than those who settled America 400 years ago.
Two days after the Charleston massacre, MSNBC used its Ed Schultz Show to let Democrat activist Bob Shrum put his party’s malarkey on parade.
It is Shrum’s considered opinion that the carnage was kept to a minimum because the black parishioners were unarmed.
He said,
“Now I cannot imagine the horror that could have occurred if people were sitting around with concealed weapons, this thing started, and you have a full-scale gunfight. You might not even have three survivors.”
There you have the liberal mind in a nutshell: it would have been worse if somebody had shot the shooter. Well actually, that is what President Obama and his cadre of lying toadies are going to peddle to the legislatures so they can exterminate worshipper’s the way South Carolina does.
One shooter killed 12 people and injured 70 others because the audience at a midnight screening of a movie in Aurora, Colorado was unarmed.
With one day to live, mayflies enjoy a higher I.Q. than Democrats.
All the proof lawmakers need that their thinking is ass-end-to can be found in Kennesaw, Georgia. It passed an ordinance in 1982 that says,
“In order to provide for the emergency management of the city, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefor.”
The first year it was in effect, crimes against persons dropped by 74 percent. The next year it fell by another 45 percent. Murders in Kennesaw are nonexistent. Burglaries barely appear on the charts.
The mainstream news media will not share this new gospel with you because they favor the agenda crafted by your political leaders. That is, your right to keep and bear arms is too precious to be put to use when you and your neighbors only believe it is needed.
I’m a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment! If you’re not a believer, please reconsider the true facts. This is history; not what’s being shown on TV, sanctioned by our illustrious delusional leaders in Washington.
PLEASE DON’T THINK FOR A MOMENT, THAT THIS COULDN’T HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY ALSO!!!!!!
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control:
· From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control:
· From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938:
· From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935:
· From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964:
· From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970:
· From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956:
· From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
56 million defenseless people were rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control.
You won’t see this data on the U.S. evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
With guns, we are ‘citizens’; without them, we are ‘subjects’.
During WW II, the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
Gun owners in the USA are the largest armed forces in the World!
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
SWITZERLAND ISSUES A GUN TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD! SWITZERLAND’S GOVERNMENT ISSUES AND TRAINS EVERY ADULT IN THE USE OF A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN-RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
IT’S A NO BRAINER! DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
Editors note: Obama has just signed on to the U.N.s Global Small Arms Treaty claiming he will implement it by executive order. This is NOT a valid treaty and has NOT been ratified by the Senate and therefore has no force of power. This is why there is a concerted effort within the states to deconstruct the 2nd Amendment, one state at a time. Unfortunately, several Democrats and Republicans in the Minnesota legislature are on board with the Obama plan.
I warned about the gun-grabbers’ plans to take guns away without a trial.
Now they are dangerously close to achieving their goal and I need you to act today to stop them.
Senate File 2639 (SF 2639) and House File 3238 (HF 3238) are bills “prohibiting persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing weapons”. Even those not convicted of any crime must give up their guns to a third party.
These orders are given out routinely with no evidence required. The “feelings” of the accuser would result in innocent people running the risk of becoming a felon before they are tried for a crime.
In an effort to fool liberty and pro-gun activists, the gun-grabbers modified HF 3238 with a fig leaf “compromise.”
However, even with the “compromise” language, the anti-gun HF 3238 still strips people of their Second Amendment rights without a trial.
This is a dangerous precedent, which will set the stage for further attacks on the rights of all gun owners.
Call your State Senator and State House Member today. Tell him or her to reject the fig-leaf “compromise” and vote NO on SF 2639 and HF 3238. Find your legislators by CLICKING HERE.
Votes on SF 2638 and HF 3238 may happen at any time now.
Don’t get me wrong – abusers should be prosecuted, and women and children should be protected from violence.
But SF 2639 and HF 3238 are disguises for attacking your constitutional right to due process and your right to keep and bear arms.
If enacted, these bills would require all guilty-until-proven-innocent parties to hand over their guns to someone else while they try to prove their innocence.
The gun-grabbers know they cannot be upfront about their intentions to destroy the Second Amendment because then their plans would fail.
That’s why they have been trying to chip away at our gun rights piece-by-piece.
That is why we must stand up now and tell the politicians in St. Paul NO to SF 2639 and to reject the fig-leaf “compromise” in HF 3238.
Bill Paulsen
State Coordinator
Minnesota Campaign for Liberty
P.S. The anti-gun forces are determined to use the anti-gun majorities in the legislature to attack every Minnesotan’s Second Amendment rights by passing SF 2639 and HF 3238.
“Recently in Connecticut, the state notified gun owners who have not complied with their unconstitutional gun registration laws that they must surrender their semi-automatic rifles or risk being arrested for a felony. How does turning 300,000 plus law-abiding citizens into criminals overnight, happen in America?”
As you know, the New York Safe Act was passed in the middle of the night by the New York City dominated New York State Legislature and signed by a Governor who would be president, without any input from the people. Who will be safer under this unconstitutional law? It definitely will not be the law-abiding citizens of New York who, if we comply, would have some of our ability to defend ourselves taken away. The law might be better named the NY SAFE ACT FOR CRIMINALS because violent criminals who carry illegal guns will never comply. They have never complied with any gun control laws and they will continue to use all banned weapons with the largest capacity magazines they can get their hands on. Only the law-abiding citizens like us and police officers like you, will now be at a disadvantage, not the criminals.
The origin of gun control in New York State goes back to 1911 when a Democrat State Senator from New York City named “Big Tim Sullivan” pushed for gun control in New York City. He was a Tammany Hall crook and a criminal overseer of gangs in New York City. Sullivan sponsored the gun-control law (later called the Sullivan Act) that mandated police-issued licenses for handguns and made it a felony to carry an unlicensed concealed weapon in NYC. When it passed, ordinary law-abiding citizens were disarmed, which solved another problem for the NYC criminals. It seems that gangsters had been bitterly complaining to State Senator Sullivan and NYC politicians that the victims of their criminal attacks sometimes shot back at them. In other words, the good guys were shooting the bad guys and State Senator Sullivan and other political crooks could not let that happen.
We know that Governor Cuomo and the Democrat controlled legislature arbitrarily came up with their own definitions of what so called ‘Assault Weapons’ are. The definitions were concocted out of thin air by a group of New York City socialists who obviously know nothing about guns. One of the things they identified that makes certain rifles ‘assault weapons’ was if a rifle had a lug on it for a bayonet. Never mind the fact that no person in New York State has been murdered or even assaulted by a person using a rifle with a bayonet attached to it in well over a hundred years. It doesn’t matter to these socialists because they will say and do anything to take our guns. That is and always has been their ultimate goal.
Certain rifles legally purchased in the past by American citizens, who happen to reside in New York State, are now illegal to purchase or sell to another state resident. Why has the New York State legislature concentrated their efforts on turning hundreds of thousands of your fellow New Yorkers into criminals?
The New York State Sheriffs Association and the County Clerks Association have taken positions opposing the NY SAFE Act as unconstitutional, as have 52 county legislatures and over 150 towns and villages in the State. In addition, there are at least 4 lawsuits currently working their way through the court system. All of these lawsuits have identified specific sections of the NY SAFE Act that are violations of both the New York State Constitution and the U.S. Constitution. All of these organizations have called for either amending the bill or called for the outright repeal of the law in order to start over with some input from the people. More
Every time I think about the Hitler-like, socialist, unconstitutional New York Safe Act that was passed in the middle of the night by the New York City dominated New York State Legislature and signed by a Governor who would be president, I think of the TV show “Cops” in which the theme song says: “Whaddya gonna do when they come for you – Bad Boys, Bad Boys” etc. etc.
We know that the state of New York arbitrarily came up with its own definitions of what so called “Assault Weapons” are. The definitions were obviously concocted out of thin air by a group of New York City “Girly Man” legislators who obviously know nothing about guns.
One of the things they identified that makes certain rifles “assault weapons” is if they have a loop on it for a bayonet. Never mind the fact that as far as I can determine, no person in New York State has been murdered or even assaulted by a person using a rifle with a bayonet attached to it in well over a hundred years. It doesn’t matter to these socialists because they will say and do anything to take our guns. That is their ultimate goal.
What is also interesting about this new law that was rushed through the legislature in the middle of the night is that there is a requirement that there can only be a maximum of seven bullets in a magazine. How did they come up with this magic number of seven? Unfortunately, the hastily passed legislation did not even exclude police officers. So, the criminals will have any number of bullets in their illegal guns, because they do not obey gun laws anyway, and the police officers and law-abiding citizens will be limited to seven. Never mind that seven bullet magazines are not even made in the USA.
The NY SAFE ACT makes certain rifles legally purchased in the past by American citizens, who happen to reside in New York State, illegal to purchase or sell to another state resident. This is clearly unconstitutional. Why has the New York State legislature concentrated their efforts on turning law-abiding American citizens into criminals using ex-post facto laws? The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that if a person doesn’t have a criminal background, laws that make something you own illegal when it was purchased legally, are unconstitutional. More
“The battle line seems to be clear. According to the politicians, the Second Amendment should read; “Swarms of uniformed officers bearing guns and badges being necessary to keep us all safe, the people may have and bear such specified arms under specified and restricted circumstances as approved by federal, state, and local politicians and judges.”
We are in an age of passing laws. There is a law for everything! Whenever we perceive that something has gone wrong, we automatically think that we need to legislate another law. We even have a saying, “There outa be a law against that!” We now have more laws than any human being can possible reckon with.
Surprising to most, the more laws legislated within a nation, the more evil the nation becomes, for righteousness comes not by the law. Every tyrant establishes his dictatorship by new laws. Adolf Hitler was lawfully elected to office, and it was through fear instilled in the People that he announced, “An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.” It was through fear that he instituted domestic security laws, creating the dreaded Gestapo that brought about the killing of millions of his own nation. Appropriate here is the quote of Benjamin Franklin, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Now as to America, let us take up just one class of the enumerable hundreds of thousands of laws now on the books; – Gun laws. There are currently an estimated 20,000 laws relating to gun ownership. Federal laws, state laws, county laws, city and local regulations. There are even imagined gun laws that are not laws, but enforced as laws.
Right now Congress is fighting over proposed passage of a number of new gun laws in addition to the already 20,000 existing gun laws. Does it dawn on anybody, that there are absolutely no guns laws that can be passed that will quell the issue of the right of the People to keep and bear arms? We just as well pass a law making it a crime to commit suicide with the penalty being death! We could even increase the penalty if the person uses a bomb to blow themselves. Gee, we could eliminate armed bank robberies by posting signs “No guns allowed in bank.” I think you have gotten my point.
With respect to these 20,000 gun laws in America there is but one gun law that controls all others, and it reads, “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.” To those unfamiliar with those words, it is the Second Amendment of the U.S Constitution. Those words were initiated by our Founding Fathers and placed into our Constitution, and those words have never changed throughout the entire history of the United States. More
Ten thousand second amendment supporters showed up at the state capital in Albany to protest the passage of the NY SAFE ACT which requires the owners of certain rifles newly classified as "assault rifles" to register their rifles with the NY State Police or face criminal charges.
Every time Cuomo’s name was mentioned, the crown booooed.
This is believed to be the largest crowd that has ever shown up for any rally at the State Capital.
Over 150 members of the OathKeepers organization were also present and came from all across the state. They were highly visible because of the black shirts with the word ‘OathKeepers ‘ stamped in gold across their chest.
When it comes to registering or surrendering weapons of any kind, the OathKeepers have a slogan: “Molon Labe” that comes from the ancient Greek, which means “Come and take”. It is a classical expression of defiance reportedly spoken by King Leonidas I in response to the Persian army’s demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Molon labe has been repeated by many later generals and politicians in order to express an army’s or nation’s determination not to surrender. Molon Labe is the motto of United States Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) and the expression “Come and take it” was a slogan in the Texas Revolution. The OathKeepers are now telling the Federal government and the NY State government to “Come and take it.”
To a person, the people in attendance indicated that they will not register their rifles with New York State as it is a violation of their Second Amendment Rights.
The resistance the the NY SAFE ACT is definitely growing across the state. Over 30 counties in New York have now passed resolutions calling the NY SAFE ACT unconstitutional. Several NY Sheriffs were also in attendance and they said they will not have any part in enforcing this law, but rather will protect their county residents’ second amendment rights.
It looks like more and more people are waking up to the growing unconstitutional actions of both the federal and NY State governments.
Where is your outrage over the hundreds of thousands of deaths each year that result from FDA approved and declared safe, pharmaceuticals? Where is your outrage and your demand for change regarding the drugging of our children and the elderly: many to the point of death. Why are you not outraged over the use of psychotropic medications that cause suicidal and/or homicidal ideation in children deemed too young to be forced onto these drugs, and what is referred to as brainstorms that cause aggressive, violent and psychotic behavior? Why are you not outraged and demanding change over the hundreds of thousands of deaths each year from the use of known toxic pharmaceuticals?
With sheriff’s across the country lining up, drawing a constitutional line in the proverbial sand, this will be an all out power struggle to retain the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. Homeland Security Terrorism Department is arming itself to the teeth in preparation for what can only be a potential attack on America; we need to preserve our 2nd Amendment.
What is missing from the gun debate?
Just imagine for a moment, that congress and the president and all his czars and UN buddies had to publicly acknowledge the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries caused by toxic pharmaceuticals each year! All approved safe and effective by the FDA!
Gun deaths accounted for in the FBI Uniform Crime Report, between 2006 and 2010 ,856 people were murdered in the U.S. by firearms. Its unfortunate that we cannot get the FBI to do a Uniform Deadly Medication Report.
In the period between 2001 and 2004, Vioxx, manufactured by Merck killed a hundred thousand individuals. Actually the death toll from Vioxx is still rolling.
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December 29, 2012 marked the 122nd Anniversary of the murder of 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. These 297 people, in their winter camp, were murdered by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection”. The slaughter began AFTER the majority of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms. When the final round had flown, of the 297 dead or dying, two thirds (200) were women and children.
Around 40 members of the 7th Cavalry were killed, over half cut down by friendly fire from the Hotchkiss guns of their overzealous comrades-in-arms. Twenty members of the 7th Cavalry were deemed “National Heros” and awarded the Medal of Honor for their acts of cowardice. More
I have spent several days saying “Happy New Year” to people who have called from all over the country. It is a hollow and meaningless greeting. Without exception, everyone I have spoken with realizes that 2013 will be the year that the official end of the formerly free nation known as the United States, will occur. I have not spoken to one person who holds out any hope that congress or the president will act to protect and defend the Constitution and the people of the fifty states. They haven’t got the time. They are far too busy assembling the police state and preparing to displace the population of the US with illegal immigrants, and removing any right to self-defense, even against government.
That oath they all take says that they will defend the US from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. The problem with this lies in the fact that the enemy we need to fear most is right here inside the gates. We have looked the enemy in the eye……and looking back at us was successive traitorous presidents and one collection after another of supposed elected officials we call senators and representatives who have actively and brazenly betrayed us as a nation while threatening us with terrorism from groups and individuals that either they can’t identify or won’t identify. The terrorists we need to fear are collecting paychecks at our expense.
Will all the traitors please stand up and identify yourselves? More
Who could possibly benefit from the massacre of children? What possible motive is there for such a heinous act? Is there a model or operative pattern to the shootings?
To answer these questions, we first turn to an investigative report revealing details about the Tasmania massacre in Australia that was used by their politicians to confiscate and ban Australia’s guns .
Wendy Scurr was working in the cafe on the afternoon that the Tasmania shooters executed those people. She unequivocally opposes the ‘official’ story, and has been demonized for telling the truth. This video is her eye witness account of the Tasmania murders.
Next we can turn to The Dunblane School Massacre that the UK’s paid politicians used to confiscate and ban all handguns. Here is a clear, quick, summary
Set aside the writer’s bias as you read these accounts and focus on the MO.
Fast forward to Sandy Hook and the first news and online reports about the shootings again indicated there were two and possibly three shooters at the school—the dead “shooter”, a man handcuffed and brought from the woods beside the school, and a man ‘proned out’ and handcuffed in the street outside the school. More
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Periodically I am forwarded an article with the question “What do you think?” Sometimes, a very few sometimes, I read through and think “Another stupid knee jerk reaction.” on the part of the author and go my merry way. After all, most of us get numerous emails concerning public policy and in reality besides pointing out the irony (or stupidity) our “trash overflowith” so to speak.
The more I considered this article, the more I began to consider that perhaps this topic deserved more than the traditional “delete key” motion – I hope to explain why. As usual one would hope that the reader would listen to my self-aware narcissistic ramblings (at least I am aware of my condition) until the end in which I will attempt to tie together the facts for digestion. I beseech thee to be Open Minded for these few words of discussion.
First and foremost I would pose these questions. What would you think if there was a Nationwide effort to teach safety, increase youngsters self-confidence, increase concentration through focus and empower our youth to become self-sufficient individuals? What if this program was Congressionally chartered in 1903, but was independent of governmental monies and therefore a non-political entity? What if this program sounded like a wonderful opportunity for individuals, young or old, to have the opportunity to participate in a group setting and become better members of society?
No matter if one is Liberal, Conservative, Democratic or Republican – I believe I am hearing those proverbial heads nodding. The above concept is in many ways the recent pronunciation of what we hope our future will hold. Family, security, hope……
Now before we all join hands and begin a rousing chorus of Kumbaya – let me place one more word out there. Gun.
Hold on, don’t run just yet. Before the feared firearm reared it’s “ugly” head readers from all walks of life were just joined together in an almost unified dance of bi-partisan love. So give me a minute here.
The program I obliquely refer to is The Civilian Marksmanship Program. One finds the following information on their website:
The CMP was created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 1903 War Department Appropriations Act. The original purpose was to provide civilians an opportunity to learn and practice marksmanship skills so they would be skilled marksmen if later called on to serve in the U.S. military. Over the years the emphasis of the program shifted to focus on youth development through marksmanship. From 1916 until 1996 the CMP was administered by the U.S. Army. Title XVI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106, 10 February 1996) created the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice & Firearms Safety (CPRPFS) to take over administration and promotion of the CMP. The CPRPFS is a tax-exempt non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation that has been Federally chartered by the U.S. Congress, but is not an agency of the U.S. Government (Title 36, United States Code, Section 40701 et seq). Apart from a donation of surplus .22 and .30 caliber rifles in the Army’s inventory to the CMP, the CMP receives no Federal funding.
This is an organization that encourages not only good citizenship, but brings families together through the hands on training, safety and competition. These are good things. They help provide the training and tools to make us a safer community. Tools naturally have to include the gun. More
This column is archived here. I am going to borrow heavily from two outstanding columns that appear on my son’s web site, LibertyDefenseLeague.com. One author, Russell Longcore, is a publisher; the other, Wilton Strickland, is an attorney. Both are avid proponents of State sovereignty and independence.
Longcore’s column is entitled “Edwin Vieira on Secession, New World Order and the American Republic.” See it at:
Strickland’s column is entitled “Staying Away From The Federal Courthouse.” View here.
Both of these gentlemen share my conviction that the only chance we have to maintain and defend liberty in these United States is for free and independent states to rise in righteous indignation against the onslaught of federal tyranny that is rapidly destroying our republic. America–as one nation–is beyond redemption. The federal government is too arrogant, too malevolent, and too drunk with power to ever allow itself to be returned to the principles of federalism and constitutionalism. And this is true no matter which of the two political parties is in charge.
Fortunately, America’s founders did not create “one nation” with 13 (now 50) provinces. They created a confederated republic with 13 (now 50) “Free and Independent States.” (Declaration of Independence) This means that even after the US Constitution was ratified in 1787, the states maintained independent, nation-state status. Therefore, each State is duly authorized and charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights and liberties of its citizens–even if that means resisting (peaceably or otherwise) the federal government–including the right of states to secede, if need be, in order to protect their liberties. More
“David broke no law. He committed no crime and threatened no one. Yet, with no warrant and no probable cause, David was dragged off into the night by heavily armed troops with no legal authority to do so and he was given none of the protections a common thief would get from the legal system.”
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Imagine your telephone ringing in the middle of the night. The caller informs you that he is a police officer. He wants to “get you the help and appropriate resources you need.” But wait, you have not asked for any help, don’t need any help, and certainly don’t want this “help” in the middle of the night. More
Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
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While our Border Patrol and law enforcement agencies along the southern border are attacked on a daily basis by drug cartels and others, our government sits idly by and does virtually nothing. Jim DeMint’s recent attempt to pass legislation to finish the fence was rejected; this while American citizens are kidnapped, tortured, harassed and terrorized and murdered in the war that is escalating on our southern border.
Eric Holder, our current Attorney General, like all his predecessors, has refused to perform his duty under Title 8 of the USC and defend the border. Instead our border agents and law enforcement are prohibited from taking any action in defense of that border, even as they and the communities around them are attacked in life threatening situations.
The State Department and other government talking heads, along with a dutifully controlled and compliant MSM (for morons) continues its propaganda about how the cartels are armed with weapons supposedly purchased from gun dealers along the border or, that they are being bought off the streets elsewhere in the US and shipped down to Mexico. More
Like her UN treaty-signing husband, Bill Clinton, who signed away large chunks of U.S. sovereignty to the UN and the World Court during his years as President, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is following in his footsteps. Her latest act of treason is to arrange and plan, with the UN, for the surrender of U.S. sovereignty and the stripping of our fundamental right to self-defense by the year 2012.
Specifically, the Arms Trade Treaty Resolution, which will affect 152 nations and the United States, establishes dates for a 2012 UN Conference aimed at eliminating our right to keep and bear arms. Even former UN ambassador and NWO hack John Bolton has warned that the UN “is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there’s no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.”
To clarify this danger, let’s look at Article VI, Section 2 of the Constitution:
“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
What this means is that the Senate can sign a treaty with any nation or with the United Nations and this would immediately give the federal government municipal police powers. In other words, whatever the treaty mandates for all signatories to it becomes enforceable law within the United States, overriding all existing laws and the Constitution and this would be enforcible everywhere within the United States, including every state, county and city. More
While you were watching the oil spill, H. Clinton signed the small arms treaty with the UN. This is one of the things Sheriff Mack has been telling people about.
“What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress. We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that permits firearms and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public.
We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment. “
Take heart, freedom loving Americans. The Health Care bill is only one battle in the long war to restore our freedoms and liberty. The ‘Gang of Three’ (Obama, Pelosi and Reid) will keep pushing additional individual pieces of their American Communist Manifesto on us. They will be pushing Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Cap and Trade, and gun legislation, before the elections in November of 2010.
We must continue the fight for Liberty and Freedom and resist each and every piece of legislation in every legal way that we can. When election day comes in November, we will oust many of the leaders and followers of the Democratic-Communist politburo in the House and Senate and our battle plan will turn from defensive actions to offensive actions. More
The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously dismissed two challenges to the state’s gun laws that require citizens to register with police departments before acquiring a firearm, as well as keeping guns stored in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock.
The court upheld the conviction of Nathaniel DePina, a New Bedford man who is serving a two-year jail sentence for carrying an illegal firearm. His lawyer, Paul Patten of Fall River, challenged the conviction on the grounds that the state’s gun licensing laws were unconstitutional. More
American News – The Dick Act of 1902 also known as the Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June 28, 1902 invalidates all so-called gun-control laws. It also divides the militia into three distinct and separate entities.
The three classes H.R. 11654 provides for are the organized militia, henceforth known as the National Guard of the State, Territory and District of Columbia, the unorganized militia and the regular army. The militia encompasses every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. All members of the unorganized militia have the absolute personal right and 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms of any type, and as many as they can afford to buy.
The Dick Act of 1902 cannot be repealed; to do so would violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws which would be yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The President of the United States has zero authority without violating the Constitution to call the National Guard to serve outside of their State borders.
The National Guard Militia can only be required by the National Government for limited purposes specified in the Constitution (to uphold the laws of the Union; to suppress insurrection and repel invasion). These are the only purposes for which the General Government can call upon the National Guard. More
ST. CHARLES, IL – The first time free people assembled as a Congress of the People for such a critical point in the nation’s history was in 1774 in Philadelphia. Over 230 years later 116 Delegates from 48 states have convened a modern day Continental Congress to exercise popular sovereignty and restore self-governance to the people of America. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CDT through Saturday Nov 22nd. More
“The Attorney General may deny the transfer of a firearm pursuant to section 922(t)(1)(B)(ii) if the Attorney General determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism, or providing material support thereof, and the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.”
In other words if the Attorney General suspects that you are a terrorist then he can deny you the right to buy a gun. There is no trial and no due process of law. So not only does this bill violate the second amendment, it also violates the fifth and sixth amendments.
The author of this bill and the cosponsors all took an oath to support the constitution. And yet here they are happily proposing to violate it left and right. In my opinion that should be ample reason for removing them from office.
But there are other troubling aspects to this bill. If second amendment rights can be removed in this manner what about other rights. Could your first amendment right of free speech be revoked because you might be using it to conspire with others to commit acts of terrorism? Could your fourth amendment right to privacy be taken because you might have something dangerous on your person or your property?
This bill stinks to high heaven. All Americans should contact their representatives and tell them this bill must not pass.
To read the news, lately, it would seem that we have the so-called “liberal left” gun grabbers on one side vs. the “conservative” Republican “defenders of the Second Amendment” on the other, which of course, includes the National Rifle Association (NRA). No other version of the debate over gun control is ever offered or publicized by the corporate-controlled mainstream media. Thus, the debate is framed in a false perspective in which the only options are to either favor gun control or to favor less of it – while leaving the bulk of it in place. What the public doesn’t understand is that this still violates the Second Amendment.
There is a third option, one that lies outside the false left-right paradigm, and that is the Constitutionalist option, which would demand the full repeal of all gun laws. This is the only option that is truly in support of protecting the Second Amendment. Anything else simply allows the Second Amendment to remain eviscerated – if not to remove it entirely.
As I have written before, one doesn’t compromise with our inalienable rights. The moment we begin to do so is the moment we have kissed those rights goodbye. That moment was allowed to occur seventy-five years ago, with the passage of the first gun control law, the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the fallout from that act has been accumulating ever since – with the full blessing of both “sides” of the false left-right paradigm.
While so-called Democrats have historically campaigned openly for more and tighter gun controls – if not the outright banning of guns – thus, playing the role of the “bad guys” in the debate (depending upon which side of the false left-right paradigm you look at it from), the “opposing” side – the so-called “conservative Republicans” – have played their “good guy” role, pretending to be staunch defenders of the Second Amendment, while voting in favor of many gun control laws and never demanding the repeal of the hundreds of existing gun control laws. Thus, the so-called “right-wing,” with its tough-sounding anti-gun control rhetoric, creates a facade of standing up for our constitutional rights, all the while supporting policy that leaves gun control intact and even allows it to continue growing.
As I have pointed out before, the NRA – the nation’s oldest and most vocal (as well as best funded) “gun rights” organization is the tip of the spear on the phony “conservative” side, having pretended for seventy-five years to be fighting against infringement of the Second Amendment while, at the same time, endorsing more laws that violate it. Even when they are endorsing laws that give the appearance of “lifting restrictions” or of “granting rights” to gun owners, they are still knowingly supporting gun control, as that is what these laws truly are. The only thing that is necessary to restore the Second Amendment – and the only action that will do so – is to repeal all the laws that violate it, in the first place. The NRA has never advocated this. Instead, they have played their role in the false left-right paradigm, pretending that asking the government to not infringe the Second Amendment quite so much as they have been is somehow a “victory” for gun owners. It is not. Anything short of full repeal does not serve the interests of anyone but the gun grabbers and until all gun control laws have been repealed, we will always remain vulnerable to the specter of gun confiscation.
While the gun control advocates of the so-called “left” are perfectly obvious (they’re supposed to be. That’s their role), not as obvious and, thus, even more dangerous to our liberties, are those on the so-called “right” who make the pretense of being defenders of the Second Amendment. It is harder for a dumbed-down public to see through their charade and to realize that both “sides” serve the same agenda.
One example of this is Rep. Mary Fallon (R-Oklahoma), who serves my district. I have met Mary Fallon, just before her election to Congress. This was before I had awakened to the horrific fact our own government staged 9/11. Once I was aware of this and had begun researching the New World Order, I found, among many things, that Mary Fallon was among those to have supported the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. Fallon is but one of many in Congress who are engaged in the same sort of subterfuge.
This morning, I read an article by Rep. Fallon, in which she refers to herself as a member of the NRA and pledges that she will “continue to support the Second Amendment to our Constitution.”She is playing her role to the hilt, arguing against the passage of H.R. 45, a massive bill that will greatly infringe the Second Amendment, but then, she’s supposed to argue against it, as the NRA is appearing to do, as part of the act. Later, as usual, there will be an NRA-backed “compromise” version of the bill that will fly through the Congress, mark my words. The result: the NRA and its supporters on the phony “right” will appear to have, once again, gallantly defended the Second Amendment and they will even be lauded for having achieved a “great victory” for the Second Amendment by allowing a slightly less dangerous version of yet another gun control law to come into existence, further violating the Second Amendment. This is how they operate. By pretending to fight against further restrictions, they are actually approving them, and the NRA has been doing this for decades.
Of course, the public doesn’t know enough about “our” Constitution to realize that it is the Federalist Constitution of 1787 that laid the groundwork for the rise of a large central government with a central bank and that our original constitution, The Articles of Confederation, was replaced by it for exactly that purpose. The Articles of Confederation didn’t necessitate any amendments to protect our rights because it was written to protect them all, in the first place and provided a far superior system of checks and balances for doing so. The Federalists, who were agents of the Rothschilds – the international bankers who sought (and still seek) to rule the world through the control of its money supply – had a mission to accomplish for their masters in London and that mission was to scrap the Articles of Confederation and replace it with a constitution that guaranteed the eventual growth of central government power. We see the result of their success all around us today.
Governments have, historically, never relinquished their power willingly and the biggest threat to a fascistic government is an aware, armed populace. The founders knew this and they also knew that, unchecked, our government would become just as despotic as every government before it had. Thus, the Second Amendment was included in the Constitution to secure our existing right to self-defense.
The Bill of Rights was tacked onto the Constitution, not by “the founders,” as we were told in our government run schools, but by the seldom mentioned Anti-Federalists who opposed the Federalist Constitution, to begin with and who insisted upon protecting our rights by adding a Bill of Rights and the ten Amendments to the Federalist Constitution. The two factions fought tooth and nail over this, the Federalists fighting to exclude these additional measures, as they were not aligned with the objectives of their corporate masters in London.
For all we know, the Anti-Federalists may well have been role-playing, just as the NRA and the Republicans are today. They succeeded in getting a Bill of Rights and the ten amendments added to the Constitution, but, obviously, that wasn’t sufficient to prevent the rise of a centralized totalitarian state, for the Federalist Constitution itself laid the groundwork for that centralization, despite the addition of the Bill of Rights and the ten amendments. Perhaps, as today, that was also by design. We may never know the truth.
In the first part of this series, I exposed the phony “march on Washington” planned for next year by several “gun rights” groups, including the NRA. In fairness, I acknowledged that Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (one of the event’s sponsors) seems to genuinely be a legitimate organization that opposes restrictions to the Second Amendment. While I made an attempt to verify Gun Owners of America’s stance, as I have known them to also be such an upstanding organization, I could not, at the time, find a clear indication of their stance on concealed carry laws while examining the latest version of their website. In my estimation, this would indicate whether they accept compromises of the Second Amendment or not. This is, in my opinion, the true litmus test of all who claim to “defend” the Second Amendment, for, if one truly defends the Amendment, then one must, without reservation, oppose any and all alterations of it, which would include all gun laws that are now on the books, as well as any that are proposed. Some call this an “extreme” position, but, if defending the Constitution as the founders wrote and intended it is “extreme,” then, yes, I am an extremist and damned proud of it.
In any case, I want to focus, in particular, on the NRA, at this point, because I believe it to be the most egregious offender when it comes to misleading gun owners about their constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Continuing in that vein, I did further research into the NRA’s backing of several gun control laws:
1934 National Firearms Act, which was the “Mother of All Gun Control Laws,” was supported by the NRA. This law, which clearly violated the Second Amendment, has been allowed to stand for 75 years and is the foundation upon which further erosions of the Second Amendment have been built.
Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, AKA the Hardy Law: This law was passed in May 1986 to amend the Gun Control Act of 1968 (scroll down the page in this document to read a 1968 article in the NRA’s publication, The American Rifleman to see how they defended their position on the Gun Control Act), which was illegal, in the first place, as it violates the Second Amendment. Even though Hardy “liberalizes” the Gun Control Act of 1968, it is the NRA’s enthusiastic support of Hardy – as opposed to demanding the full repeal of the Gun Control Act of 1968, that is suspicious. Again, if the NRA is truly a “defender” of the Second Amendment, as it claims to be, then why does it consistently support layer upon layer of additions to the existing accumulation of gun control laws, all of which violate the very Amendment the NRA claims to defend?
Mississippi SB2036 is a recently passed bill (mentioned in the first part of this article) which sneakily promised to “protect” gun owners in Mississippi from firearms confiscations in the event of martial law. Aside from the ominous overtones of this bill (how does Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant know there will be martial law in Mississippi?), the bill, as passed into law, only describes the conditions under which the state may confiscate guns, rather than protecting gun owners from such confiscations, as the Lt. Gov. and the media reported the bill would do. Of course, the NRA supported this bill, as well.
People who claim to protect something – whatever it may be – usually act accordingly. In other words, they act to protect whatever it is they deem needs protection. People who claim to protect something and then act to undermine protections for it are called, at best, liars. When the people in question are a multi-billion dollar budgeted organization with millions of members who claim to protect a fundamental part of our nation’s founding document and the freedoms it represents – and then act to undermine that very same document by supporting the continual addition of laws that violate it, they are called, at best, traitors.
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