THE SECOND AMENDMENT
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
I
will state this as clearly as possible; if we lose
our right to keep and bear arms under the Second
Amendment to the Constitution we will permanently
lose our Constitutional Republic and our freedom. We
will become the subjects of a government of elitists
who have no tolerance for individual liberties or
even individual thought.
The
Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution for
a specific purpose. The founding fathers had just
gone through a long and bloody revolution to secure
their freedom from English tyranny and had been
struggling to form a new country that would be
unlike anything the world had ever seen before. They
were forming a Constitutional Republic, and they did
not know if it would be successful.
They
wanted a government run by the citizens, not one
that made people subjects of the government.
However, they were aware that if it failed and
started to become a tyrannical form of government
the people would once again have to fight for their
freedoms. Such a fight would require the use of
firearms, most owned by the people themselves. So
the framers of the Constitution added the Second
Amendment to the document to ensure that the right
of the people to keep and bear arms would not be
“infringed” upon by the government.
Now,
we have a President of the United States, a democrat
candidate for President, and the progressive
democrats in Congress and the Judiciary that have
decided that the founding fathers got it all wrong.
They have determined that they are the elites who
must run the government for their benefit without
interference from the ignorant low life “people.”
However, the elites have a problem; millions of
Americans are armed and still believe in the
American dream of freedom. Even worse for the
progressives is the fact that millions of those
armed Americans are military veterans like me, who
took an oath to “protect and defend the constitution
of the United States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic.” That is an oath that has no
expiration date.
The
progressives see the solution to this problem as a
simple one, abolish the Second Amendment and disarm
the American people. They have been working on this
for years, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme
Court has twice ruled that the right to keep and
bear arms is in fact an individual right guaranteed
to every American. The assault on the Second
Amendment has taken place at the local, state, and
federal level, but has intensified to epic
proportions under the current administration.
For
the past three years those of us at the United
States Justice Foundation have been working with
veterans who are having their Second and Fifth
Amendment rights stripped from them by illegal and
unconstitutional actions by the federal and some
state governments. Now, we are seeing the same thing
happening to Social Security recipients just as I
predicted in an article on this blog last year.
As
is the policy of the progressives, they are trying
to do all of this under the radar so the American
people will be unaware of what is happening to them.
Now the efforts are accelerating, and once again it
is under the radar. For several years
I have been warning that the Obama administration has been violating federal law by illegally gathering and storing information on Americans who legally purchase firearms.
When
you go to a licensed firearm dealer you are required
to fill out a form that is then sent immediately to
the FBI so a background check to make sure you are
not on the NICS list of people who are prohibited
from owning firearms. Federal law requires that once
the determination has been made, both the FBI and
the firearms dealer are required to destroy the
document and keep no record of it.
The
dealers are complying with the law, but the federal
government is not and the names, addresses, and
social security numbers of hundreds of thousands of
Americans have been kept on file and Obama is
planning to turn that information over to the United
Nations in order to comply with a requirement of the
UN Small Arms treaty that was signed by John Kerry
on Obama’s behalf, but has never been submitted to
the Senate for ratification as required by the
Constitution.
Yet,
despite the fact that no treaty signed by the
President can be enforced without two-thirds of the
Senate ratifying it, Obama has gone one step
further. He has signed an executive order declaring
gunsmiths in the United States be classified as
firearms manufacturers that export firearms to
foreign countries and are therefore subject to UN
Small Arms requirements that they pay exorbitant
fees to stay in business. The goal is obvious, to
put these small businesses that repair and refurbish
firearms for American citizens out of business.
However, Obama was not done yet. He has ordered ATF
to illegally ban the chemical compound
nitrocellulose; the key and essential ingredient in
smokeless gunpowder that is used in all firearm
ammunition manufactured in the United States. This
illegal and unconstitutional action will cause the
ammunition already manufactured to be extremely
expensive and new ammo eventually unavailable.
Hillary Clinton not only agrees with everything
Obama has done, but has plans of her own to finish
off the Second Amendment. She has vowed to put the
NRA out of business and wants to outlaw the private
ownership of handguns, and she will appoint justices
to the Supreme Court that will finalize the
destruction of the Constitution. It is time for us
to let all Americans know how important the right to
keep and bear arms is, because the elitists already
know what it means to their plans for a Nazi
America, and they want to take it down along with
the rest of the Constitution.