Assualt on 2nd amendment rights

[Guest dmayes2]

Assault on the Second Amendment

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.

- The Bill of Rights

“The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.†- Samuel Adams, debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87.

In establishing the Second Amendment, the founding fathers recognized that as long as there was an armed populace, a government could not arbitrarily force its dictatorial will on the people. It is the right to keep and bear arms that secures our individual freedom and provides the security of our life and property.

It is, perhaps, this "individualism" that stands front and center in the modern debate over the Second Amendment. The question seems to be, "Who is better to provide for your well-being and to protect you from those wishing to harm you... yourself or the State?

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Collectivist influences in our society believe the State is supreme and the individual exists only to serve the State. Any freedom the individual citizen may enjoy is therefore granted by the State, as a collective or group right, who acts as their provider and protector.

Obama Attorney General, Eric Holder, along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice–co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in support of DC’s ban on all handguns, and ban on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home. The brief argued that the Second Amendment is a “collective†right, not an individual one, and asserted that belief in the collective right had been the consistent policy of the U.S. Department of Justice since the FDR administration.

The founders of America saw it different, as do modern day freedom patriots. The writers of the Constitution did not establish the Second Amendment to protect sportsmen and hunters. The intent of the Second Amendment is to protect your individual right of freedom and to protect you from a tyrannical State.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson, proposed Virginia constitution, June 1776. 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C. J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)

Assault on the Second Amendment

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Their brief was a slap at the Constitution. It also ought to be enough evidence for anyone

that can think clearly, that none of those people involved in that brief, up to and including

Bill Clinton should ever be allowed to assert their influence on us as a society.

It really tires me to see anyone defend Bill Clinton's two terms as POTUS, because I

really think all they paid attention to during that time was his tryst with Monica Lewinski.

He and all of his minions were antigunners and anti America by their actions. This is

a nation of individuals, not a hippy commune thinking of utopia. He had no economic

policy. He had a sense for his own survival, politically. Congress and previous administrations

are the reason for his so called budget successes.

Janet Reno and Eric Holder were embarrassments to their offices.

Obama should be a reminder to us to never fall asleep at the voting booth, again!

Edited September 12, 2010 by 6.8 AR
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