UN Gun Grabbers Update

Good News From the NRA

Like all UN efforts, the gun grabber initiative is sputtering, but we must stay vigilant.  Here's an excerpt from the NRA web site:

The UN and International Treaties:  Over the last few weeks, we have received many inquiries regarding the UN and the impact of international treaties on our Second Amendment freedom.

The current issue under discussion, the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), is in the early stages of the negotiation process.  There is no actual draft text at this time.  Work on the ATT is scheduled to continue by a consensus process between now and 2012.  It should be noted that any treaty must be approved by two thirds of the U.S. Senate for ratification. 

 Read the whole NRA Report Here

Finally, if you own a weapon and do not belong to the NRA or GOA, you need to have your head examined.  These good organizations fight for your God-given right to keep and bear arms. 

Revolutionary Indicators

We are living in revolutionary times. Institutions that we have taken for granted are being completely revamped. People's perception of government is radically changing. Power is escaping its Constitutional cage.

I believe the form of the future is always around us -- the seeds of which were planted yesterday, are quietly growing today, and ready to bloom tomorrow. The key to being ahead of the curve is to be observant of those small shoots. I'll present some of them here.

Indicator 1: Massive Washington Tea Party

While the probable count was around 1.5 to 2 million, each individual who attended represented ten to twenty people who could not.


Indicator 2: Internet search terms

I subscribe to a bi-monthly digest of top Internet search terms. In the past, I just took a quick look through the search words (mostly pop culture and porn) but this year began to take a closer examination. I compiled conservative search terms with their ranking in the list. Interesting.

Indicator 3: American's attitudes toward traditional seats of power



I am not aware of any recent President falling so fast, so soon. And the Main Stream Media? Time to pull the plug. The brain died years ago.

Indicator 4: 2nd Amendment purchases

Far from mere talk, these people are laying down cold cash to support their beliefs even in the face of a severe economic downturn. It is estimated that two billion extra rounds of ammunition have been purchased this last year over and above the seven billion usually sold. Gun sales mirror this increase. NICS background checks only cover a portion of 2nd Amendment sales, the actual volume is likely significantly higher.

Indicator 5: Abandonment of houses and debts

Strategic default is the term used for those who bail out of a house to preserve what capital they have. Couple this trend with those who are maxing out credit cards without any intention of paying - credit charge off rates are approaching 12%. It seems as though the cost in a ruined credit score is not enough to stop them - like there is no tomorrow.

Indicator 6: Tenth Amendment assertion by individual States

Each point represents a state that has explored in some degree their 10th Amendment rights in defiance to an expanding federal government.

Indicator 7: Civilian law enforcement by military personnel

Despite the traditional prohibitions of Posse Comitatus, these are some of the verified law enforcement-like activities of the US military within CONUS over the past year, usually under the aegis of NORTHCOM:

Pittsburgh
The Kentucky Derby
Samson, AL
San Bernardino County, CA
Boston
Indianapolis
El Paso
Interstate 35 in Texas
Whiteville, TN
Kingman, AZ
Newport, KY
Washington, D.C.

Taken together, these indicators seem to say it's not 2009. It's 1764.

-Hugh Farnham

Bed Wetters Continue to Whine to CNN about Scary Guns

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama's speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events.

Arizona law has nothing in the books regulating assault rifles, and only requires permits for carrying concealed weapons. So despite the man's proximity to the president, there were no charges or arrests to be made.

Hill said officers explained the law to some people who were upset about the presence of weapons at the protest.

Gun-toting protesters have demonstrated around the president before. Last week, a man protesting outside Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire had a gun strapped to his thigh. That state also doesn't require a license for open carry. (Source: CNN)

Lesson learned: Law abiding citizens carrying guns are not a threat.
If you piddle-down-your-leg, thumb-sucking liberals don't like our Out West gun laws, you can slink back to the liberal urban cesspools you crawled out of. Big Daddy will take care of you there by taking your rights away and ensuring only criminals have firearms, you constitutionally-ignorant morons.

Here's a quote you lefties love throwing around:

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It's almost as pithy as "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," which is proven true every day in the enlightened "gun free zones" all over the world.

Let Freedom (and Gunshots) Ring!

State governments are asserting their constitutional rights

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer (a Democrat!) signed into law a pro-gun, anti-Fed bill.

(The bill) exempts Montana-made firearms from federal regulations.

Schweitzer also signed into law a bill clarifying gun rights, which says people don’t have an obligation to run away before using a gun in self defense, landlords can’t control whether tenants have guns and people who use self defense should not be presumed guilty by police.
Source: Flathead Beacon

That's right. Guns made in Montana and used within that state cannot be regulated by the Federal Government. That means assault rifles, machine guns, Thompson sub-machine guns, Gatling guns, chain guns, howitzers, guns with silencers, guns with loudeners... All untouchable by the Feds.

Utah and Texas are hankerin' to do the same!

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, home of the fine conservative US Senators James Inhofe and Dr. Tom Coburn, state legislators have passed a bill asserting Oklahoma's sovereignty. Rep Charles Key says the bill...

would tell Congress to "get back into their proper constitutional role.” The resolution states the federal government should "cease and desist” mandates that are beyond the scope of its powers.

Key said many federal laws violate the 10th Amendment, which says powers not delegated to the U.S. government "are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” The Constitution lists about 20 duties required of the U.S. government, he said. (Source: NewsOK.Com)

Key Points to Remember Regarding States Rights and The Constitution

1) The Constitution is a set of instructions from We The People to the Federal Government.

2) The Constitution was established by the thirteen original states as a delegation of certain specific powers to the federal government so that the rights of the people might be protected.

3) Our inalienable rights come from God, not the government or the Constitution. The Federal Government and the Constitution don't bestow rights, they safeguard them.

Peoples' Rights and States' Rights: Two Amendments

9th Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Let the cowering metrosexual liberals surrender their freedoms in their high-tax, crime infested, shriveled blue states. Out west and down south...
Let Freedom (and gunshots) Ring, Baby!

Rush to Ignorance: Guns, Congress, & The 2nd Amendment

Should government require individual citizens to possess a license to practice free speech or religion (1st Amendment)? How about requiring a license that grants you freedom from cruel and unusual punishment (8th Amendment)? These are ridiculous, unconstitutional proposals; but when has that ever stopped a lawmaker, especially a liberal Democrat?

Representative Bobby Rush, Democrat of Chicago and a constitutionally ignorant man, proposes to license (infringe) the constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms (2nd Amendment). He wants to outlaw possession of firearms by anyone not possessing a federal firearms license. I can think of no other constitutional right that is treated in this manner.

HR 45
1/6/2009--Introduced.
Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.

The complete text of this constitutional overreach, which is fit to be printed only on toilet paper, can be found here.

The licensing requirements this former Black Panther insists upon are burdensome. The section about safe storage as pertaining to children (those under 18 years old) makes it legally impossible to keep loaded weapons or to even separately store weapons and ammo in such a manner as you could quickly use them in defense of your home.

This bill infringes upon a constitutional right which comes from God. It criminalizes the previously legal act of owning a gun. I have a right to possess firearms, and can only lose that right through illegal activity. This proposed legislation turns a citizen into a supplicant, begging a bureaucrat for the privilege to own a gun. It makes it harder to legally defend your home and property, and will impede illegal weapons trafficking not at all.

Is this the Democratic agenda for America? Write your elected officials and tell them they can keep it, and suggest they read the US Constitution while they're at it.

Gun Grabbers?

Chicago Sun Times reports that President-elect Obama is playing snake charmer to gun owners:

"I believe in common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the second amendment," Obama said at a news conference. "Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that throughout the campaign. I haven't indicated anything different during the transition. I think people can take me at my word."

I take the president-elect at his word. I just have a few questions about the meaning of some of those words. Like a famous man once said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word is is.

How does Mr. Obama define "common sense?" Does he have any plans to redefine what "lawful" means? Don't hold your breath waiting for some metrosexual reporter who thinks hunting is murder to ask those questions.

As to his comment that lawful gun owners have nothing to fear, I couldn't help recalling a Thomas Jefferson quote:

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence, had this to say about a spike in post-election gun purchases:

"We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."

Who is Peter Hamm to decide someone has "more than enough" guns? To some of us, too many guns is like too much fun. And like Daryle Singletary, I ain't never had too much fun.

Therein lies the problem with trying to restrict God-given freedoms: How does a bureaucrat decide how many guns (how much freedom) is "enough?"

Leave law-abiding citizens alone. There are more than enough criminals running loose to keep our law enforcement busy without creating a new class of criminal out of some do-gooder's paranoid fantasy.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1318968,obama-gun-sales-up-120808.article

Obama Shoots Off His Mouth About Guns

Mr. Obama was out trying to tame the unwashed Bible thumpin' gun clingin' rednecks yesterday. First he said this:

“I believe in the Second Amendment, and if you are a law-abiding gun owner, you have nothing to fear from an Obama administration!”

So far so good, but then the mask slipped:

He also keenly noted that even if he intended to take away guns, he would not have the power to do so as president. “I couldn’t get it done. I don’t have the votes in Congress.”

Hmmm... If he believes in the second amendment, why would he even make such a statement?

You would never hear him say "Even if I wanted to take your free speech away I couldn't do it. I don't have the votes!" We all know that would be an absurd statement; just as absurd as his statement about voting to take our guns away.

Congress Cannot Vote Away Constitutional Rights!

For the record, here's a refresher, courtesy of Cornell University:

Amendment II: 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.

Mr. Obama is a gungrabbing city slicker who has no concept of small-town and rural America. I think he would take our guns away if he had the votes. He said what he really though of us out in San Francisco while schmoozing his fellow effete liberal, wine and cheese, Volvo driving, arugula eating, oh-so-better-than-you-and-me snobs.

That BS don't fly in the heartland.

UN Gun Grabbers

Interesting read over at the Volokh Conspiracy concerning the UN's disdain for our 2nd Amendment. I've got just two quotes from the article here. I love the arrogance of this first one (we don't have to bow down to the UN? We're still free to make our own laws? Oh, Thank you, Mr. UN Poobah!)

“States remain free to have their own national legislation,” said Daniel Prins, chief of the Conventional Arms Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Here's another goodie. Stalin himself couldn't have said it better:

Citizens should only be allowed to own guns if they are given a government permit, and the permit should only be issued if there is a "good reason" for possession or or "genuine need." In particular, permits to own guns for self defense should not be issued unless the applicant proves that he is in immediate danger.

If you cherish the second amendment while looking upon the UN as the stinking dung heap it is, do yourself a favor and read the entire article, it's short and very well put together. http://volokh.com/posts/1216681864.shtml

Enjoy!

BREAKING NEWS - Supremes Actually Find A Right In The Constitution!

"So Wrong, So Often, For So Long..."

I'm slackjawed. The Supremes have actually found a right that exists in the Constitution! For decades they have been adept on finding "rights" where none existed in this document, and denied real rights when they existed in black and white.

As Boston T. Party would say, "Hold off on the party balloons." This decision by the court was not a compete vindication of the 2nd Amendment, but a cleverly crafted piece not in line with the other famous 1939 2nd Amendment case, U.S. vs. Miller. The upshot of that decision was that any weapon that normally would be used by servicemen is protected by the 2nd Amendment. Today, the court backpedaled and reduced that to "hunting and self-defense arms" subject to "reasonable restrictions." This clear Constitutional right was upheld by only five; four agreed with a complete firearms ban.

Speaking of those in black robes, Let's see what Thomas Jefferson said about these judges:

"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps... The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."

Yes... corruption of time, despots, and privilege of their corps. That pretty much sums up this Oligarchy.

Sadly, basic human rights can never be taken away, but only given up. In other words, I was born with basic rights - and only I can give them up. I exercise all my constitutional rights regardless what some corrupt judge may say against or in favor of them.

A last quote by Jefferson:

"The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."

-- Hugh Farnham