Monday, January 4, 2016
The Second Amendment Protects Americans from Government Tyranny
"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." Second Amendment, US Constitution, adopted 1791. ~~~~~ A new Texas law allows residents to openly carry licensed handguns in Texas, where licensed carrying of concealed weapons is permitted. Retail and commercial businesses can opt out of the law that bans open carry at schools, courts, jails, bars, polling places, and sanctioned sports events. Government meetings can be gun-free, with notice. Texas is now the largest state to have some form of open carry. Supporters in the Texas legislature tied the new law to Second Amendment rights. Opponents, mostly Democrats, argued the open carry law would be dangerous. ~~~~~ On the gun control side, a new California law allows police, without prior warning to a gun owner, to seize weapons if a judge decides there's a potential for violence. The law was passed after a 2014 mass shooting, in which officers had visited the shooter's home after his parents warned about his mental health, but the police decided he wasn't a risk and didn't search the apartment where he had guns, ammo and knives. Under the new law, families can obtain a "gun violence restraining order." Los Angeles Police Assistant Chief Michael Moore said : "The law gives us a vehicle to cause the person to surrender their weapons....It's a short duration...an opportunity for mental health professionals to provide an analysis of a person's mental state." California law already bans gun possession by anyone who has committed a violent crime or been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility. Second Amendment advocates say the new law could put lawful gun owners at risk of seizure. ~~~~~ Second Amendment supporters warn they'll vigorously oppose President Obama's plan to order expanded background checks for gun buyers at gun shows. Obama's threatened executive order signals "war," Chicago radio host and former congressman Joe Walsh says. Yesterday, Obama met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch about the executive orders to be released today. The National Rifle Association said Obama’s "gun control agenda was rejected by Congress. Now, he is doing what he always does when he doesn’t get his way, defying the will of the people and using executive action." GOP presidential candidate, Senator Rand Paul has introduced a bill to prevent executive orders on gun control from being effective until Congress passes a law supporting the order. Senator Paul said : “In the United States, we do not have a king, but we do have a Constitution. We also have the Second Amendment, and I will fight tooth and nail to protect it." ~~~~~ In 1786, the new US government had not paid many Revolutionary War veterans. They returned to their farms and were levied heavy new state taxes to pay war debts. Those who couldn’t pay the taxes had their farms seized and were sentenced to debtors’ prison. Angry veterans in Massachusetts shut down local courts and tried to take over an armory. Shays’ Rebellion was crushed by state militia. Many rebels were imprisoned, and some executed, as recommended by Samuel Adams : “...the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death." Thomas Jefferson took a milder view. One of Jefferson’s most famous quotations is from his letter to James Madison on January 30, 1787 : “I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing....Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” ~~~~~ Dear readers, the right to bear arms is America's protection against tyrannical government. Never surrender it. The Founder who wrote the Second Amendment also wrote : 'The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." __James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
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Top to bottom, side to side, start to finish everything in the Constitution is of equal importance.
ReplyDeleteIt's a document - the finest ever written - that every word depends on every other word. Every punctuation depends on every other mark. It's a roadmap about what we can and should expect from a mostly unwanted (at the time of its writing)Federal government.
It tells us who we are, what we are, where we can go, and how to get there.
It stands for my part one step behind the Bible. And as with the Bible it us not a living document. What (in its original state) it says it what it says then, now, and forever.
It is a thing of beauty. Left alone it would stand the test of time.
I have been fortunate in bringing some 75% of the countries I this Blue Planet of ours. I have worked and lived with citizens of the most improvised and backward 3rd world nations. Common Suggs is seeing police/military/authorities beating citizens just trying to survive one more day.
ReplyDeleteCitizen who were desperately afraid of authority. Duke if Kaw was what someone who had a gun wanted it to be at that moment. And Western civilized nations didn't always escape like action.
But here in the United States we have this piece of paper that gives us all the same rights. The right to own a gun to protect ourselves and family from invaders.
Taking guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens only gives more advantage to the criminal element. I will always own a gun. And if the day comes when that U.S. Against the Kaw - I will then break the Kaw, but still own a gun.
And why shouldn't I? If someone should decided to break into my home in the middle if the night with the intent of stealing my property or causing harm or death to my family who has the right to say NO you can't do that.
It's not the governments house, not the governments property, not the government responsibility or even within the ability of the giernment to protect my family at 3 AM in the morning - they demonstrate day after day they can't do it at even Noon . "Protect the borders-deliver the miail- and stay out of my Constitution."
The purpose of the Constitution was to replace the Article of Confederation and to limit the strength and influence of the Federal government over the citizens. You must remember that immediadatly at the end of the War for Independence most of the 13 states and nearly all the Founding Farthers wanted to revert to13 independent states.
ReplyDeleteStates rights, individual rights were of parimount importance. Citizens of the original 13 states had carved from nothing farms, towns, townships, counties, and states. They provided for themselves Andrew for others. And for the most part guns were used in very many ways to secure the work of their
They saw no need in a Federal government to take the place of the government of England they just left.
So has that great document that the Founders constructed failed the citizens of the United States some 240 years later or as I believe is it the Progressive
Socialist Welfare State, the Politucal Correctness crowd of the Obama and Clinton wing of the very Liberal Democratic Party that wa ta to steal more of our freedoms via executive order - not even Legislative procedure?
We need to take back our Federal Government and keep our guns deli ally in the light if the terrorism that has reached oh shores.