Once again the talk about gun rights is heating up, mostly due to Bobby Rush’s (D) H.R. 45 Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 and the Obama administration’s appointment of anti-gun advocate Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The Act is much more than a forced registration of all firearms in America; it amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and would essentially establish a nationwide system for prohibiting unlicensed gun-ownership. Sound sort of non-ominous right? Well, even if the bill was drafted under the most thoughtful intentions, it is without a doubt a direct assault on the second amendment. If approved, the law would require gun owners to apply for five-year licenses to own firearms, and would give the U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, broad authority over the entire program. Keep in mind that Eric Holder is a former Democratic prosecutor and a staunch supporter of extremely strict gun control.
The second amendment is very clear to me, “The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. By using the very definition of the word “infringe”, this Act and the anti-gun supporting actions of anti-gun lobbies and a few liberal members Congress would clearly indicate a move towards violating the rights of the American people guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
Some people claim that this is a fringe bill and that it has virtually zero chances of becoming law. And that may be true, but do you think the attack on the second amendment will stop there? President Obama and Eric Holder aren’t the only members of this administration that have expressed their anti-gun plans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on record as wanting to confiscate all guns suitable for self defense and she wants to strictly regulate all hunting guns as well. This would have already been done had she believed it were politically possible to accomplish without breaking her party and damaging the President.
Whether you’re pro-gun or not, take a step back and think about the impact this will have on our nation and our Constitutional rights as whole. The second amendment is without a doubt a constitutional right recognized by a majority of Americans that is written and defined by our nation’s founders. If the liberal left can somehow get this right changed in some way to weaken it, then what is to stop them from changing anything else that is guaranteed by the Constitution that they do not like? What’s next, maybe the right to freedom of speech, certain parental rights or the right to practice the religion of your own choosing? Oh, wait what am I talking about….those rights are also under attack by the lefties, statists and totalitarians.
History has proven to us time and time again that dictators and tyrants have used firearms registration and gun control measures as the first step toward gun confiscation and citizen disarmament….which also leads to other losses of civil rights. Don’t think that could happen to America? Research German history during the 1940’s under Hitlers rule; they didn’t think it could happen to them either.
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.” – John F. Kennedy