In the United States, gun control has always been a losing issue for statists. The Founding Fathers placed gun rights very high on their list of important issues, not necessarily for hunting, or protection of self and private property, though very important reasons to have a gun as well, but because the right of the people to keep and bear arms is "necessary" to protect freedom, "Necessary" to protect the "security" of freedom of each individual, and sovereign, State. The Second Amendment wasn't created to protect the activities of hunting and protecting one's things from a criminal element, but to protect the nation from the authoritarian aims of a tyranny.
The language in the Second Amendment is clear. "Shall Not Be Infringed." That means each and every law, be it background checks, registration, or a national data base, are unconstitutional. All federal gun laws are illegal from the point of the view of the United States Constitution.
Gun Control proponents declare that chaos would ensue without federal gun laws.
Rifles don't require registration, and chaos hasn't ensued over that.
"But," the gun control activist may shout, "what about all of the mass shootings?"
The mass shootings you have been seeing in the news have almost all occurred in gun-free zones, where gun control laws are the strictest.
The National Rifle Association is warning that the Obama administration is going to implement the U.N. Arms Trade treaty without the constitutional requirement of ratification by Congress. The U.N. treaty is set to take effect December 24, 2014. The end-around Congress regarding gun control could be even more politically dangerous for the Democrats than Obama's plan to perform an end-run around Congress with an executive order on immigraton.
The treaty, according to the NRA, is an “attempt by other countries, including some despotic regimes, to try and infringe on our constitutional rights. This treaty is a very real threat."
In Buffalo, New York, the fears of gun rights supporters are coming true, as registration has possibly led to confiscation.
Though no confiscations have yet occurred, the mere suggestion has outraged members of gun rights groups. If confiscations begin, not only would such action be illegal action against our natural right of gun ownership, but the action would reveal, once again, that liberals lie. Gun control activists have long claimed that gun owners need have no worried about gun registration.
Fox News predicts legal challenges if Buffalo carries out its tyrannical confiscation. The city government claims the action is an effort to prevent guns of deceased people from being stolen in burglaries or otherwise ending up in criminal hands.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms call the effort “unconscionable” and "ghoulish."
A battle is heating up in Nevada where a petition of more than 250,000 signatures calls for “universal background checks” in the Silver State.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms call the effort “unconscionable” and "ghoulish."
A battle is heating up in Nevada where a petition of more than 250,000 signatures calls for “universal background checks” in the Silver State.
In Washington State, an initiative passed during the election a couple weeks ago that is similar, eliminating the right to inherit a gun without registration requirements. The new law states if someone comes into possession of a handgun due to the death of the owner, they have 60 days to “either have lawfully transferred the pistol or must have contacted the department of licensing to notify the department that he or she has possession of the pistol and intends to retain possession of the pistol, in compliance with all federal and state laws.”
Meanwhile, Jack McCauley, now retired from the Maryland State Police, contended in a court affidavit that the administration of anti-gun Governor Martin O’Malley purposely misled the public about the state’s Firearms Safety Act of 2013, purposely lying to the public to cover up the ineffectiveness of the law.
On November 4, in Maryland, Omalley's would-be successor Anthony G. Brown was defeated by Republican Larry Hogan. Maryland gun owners are hoping the law, which banned so-called “assault weapons” and placed new restrictions on handgun buyers in the state, gets reversed on Hogan's watch. That will be up to the legislature.
The gun control issue has always been poison for the Democrat Party, and they have historically been careful about how they approach their hopes of disarming Americans. As Nazi Germany showed us, as well as every other tyranny in history, tyrants want the citizenry disarmed, and registration is a perfect way to find out who to confiscate firearms from. But, in the United States, the right to own a gun is a very popular stance.
In a recent Gallup poll on guns, the survey found that 63% of Americans think having a gun in the home makes the home safer. On the other side of the coin, only 30% of Americans say they feel guns make homes more dangerous, and around 6% say “it depends.”
The results are dramatically different from a 2000 poll before the Democrats began to target guns as a part of the Obama agenda. In 2000, only 35% of respondents said they felt guns made homes safer, and the majority — 51% — felt guns made for a more dangerous home.
It is amazing how many people are willing to wake when faced with an ambitious tyrant like Barack Obama, and his team of ruthless authoritarians.
On November 4, in Maryland, Omalley's would-be successor Anthony G. Brown was defeated by Republican Larry Hogan. Maryland gun owners are hoping the law, which banned so-called “assault weapons” and placed new restrictions on handgun buyers in the state, gets reversed on Hogan's watch. That will be up to the legislature.
The gun control issue has always been poison for the Democrat Party, and they have historically been careful about how they approach their hopes of disarming Americans. As Nazi Germany showed us, as well as every other tyranny in history, tyrants want the citizenry disarmed, and registration is a perfect way to find out who to confiscate firearms from. But, in the United States, the right to own a gun is a very popular stance.
In a recent Gallup poll on guns, the survey found that 63% of Americans think having a gun in the home makes the home safer. On the other side of the coin, only 30% of Americans say they feel guns make homes more dangerous, and around 6% say “it depends.”
The results are dramatically different from a 2000 poll before the Democrats began to target guns as a part of the Obama agenda. In 2000, only 35% of respondents said they felt guns made homes safer, and the majority — 51% — felt guns made for a more dangerous home.
It is amazing how many people are willing to wake when faced with an ambitious tyrant like Barack Obama, and his team of ruthless authoritarians.
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