Soon after the Denver shootings, President Obama said it was time to put stricter gun-control measures in place. With the failure of Attorney General Holder’s “Fast and Furious” ploy to void the 2nd Amendment, it seems Obama thought he might capitalize on the Denver shootings to further damage the Constitution. The negative public reaction to his words, however, sent Obama backtracking, and senior Democrats like Senator Reid and Representative Pelosi quickly made public remarks to bury the issue — for now.
Before moving on, it is worth noting that Obama said gun laws must be changed but only in a way that protected Americans’ cherished tradition of hunting. Well, hunting game is not the central concern of the 2nd Amendment. What is central is that the 2nd Amendment protects the right of Americans to be armed in case they decide there is a need, in Jefferson’s words, “to alter or to abolish [the government]” and “to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
In creating the 2nd Amendment, the Founders — through James Madison‘s pen — took their cue from the British Bill of Rights (1689) which recognized that an unarmed populace could not protect its rights, liberty, and economic welfare against a king backed by a standing army, and so it allowed for an armed populace. The Founders also recalled that when London cracked down on New England’s resistance to the Crown, one of British General Thomas Gates’ first moves was to try to seize the munitions and ordnance the colonists had stockpiled around Boston. One reason for the British Army’s ill-fated expedition to Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, for example, was to capture the colonists’ stores of cannon, muskets, and munitions.
Even before Jefferson’s declaration, therefore, what in today’s parlance is called “gun control” was seen by Americans for what it was and is, a policy instituted by an oppressive government that fears its population and therefore aims at ensuring that citizens cannot arm to resist its will. The 2nd Amendment is meant, in part, to make sure that if the federal government created by the Constitution turns oppressive, Americans will have arms with which to defend their liberties and welfare.
And this right is much more important today than it was when the 2nd Amendment was drafted because the federal government has over time deliberately and probably unconstitutionally eradicated the 2nd Amendment’s other anti-oppression provision, the one that made sure the several state governments had well-regulated — that is, well-trained — militias at their command. The state militias were of course meant to assist the U.S. government’s standing army in case of foreign attack or domestic insurrection, but they also were meant to defend the states and their populations if the federal government used its standing army to willfully violate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, or acted in a manner harmful to the peoples’ security, economic welfare, and/or their society’s social cohesion.
Read More at non-intervention.com. By Mike Scheuer.
Photo Credit: Geoff Livingston (Creative Commons)
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Hey obama, all gun laws and controls are unconstitutional. Wasn’t that you so called main line of stuty in school, the Constitution? I guess you must have missed that class, getting coked up or something. The second amendment is there to protect us from the likes of you and your commie followers. Keep your mouth shut, you know nothing. You, your buddies and party are all traitors to this country. Your a gutless lowlife, stop all your talk about guns, make your move, come and get our guns. You know damn well the American people will revolt, drag you from the White House and hang you for the traitor we know you for. You think the UN will help with troops? You think real Americans in the armed forces will side with you? I dare you, you commie worm. Go the hell back to Kenya, sell them you bs.
WELL PUT d120965 ..WELL PUT.
Well said. For a supposed scholar of the Constitution he sure doesn’t weem to know, or care, what it says and what it means.
Obama needs to go back to school so he will learn something about our Constitution and our right to keep and bear arms… What this bottom feeding leach is forgetting is the weapons we have are to be used to remove him and the likes of him from our Oval Office…. Tyrants one and all in his administration have something to fear, US!!!!!!
Our greatest weapon is the balot box. If he decides to cancel the election the next weapon is the ammo box.
Well said one and all name the time and place ,but lets wait and see if we have a fair election and it crawls back under the slime covered rock from which it slittered!
“Broken-back Obama” thinks in african ‘Tribal War’ terms. if you began to speak about his criminal friends the Nigerians, or Sharia Law, he would understand exactly what you meant. But the “Constitution”, it’s all Greek to him.
It is time for the American People to throw all these commie bastards out on thier ear and I mean all of them !!!!! Starting with Odumbo then Holder , Clinton,Valerie Jerratt, Reid, and the rest of those commie sob’s that think they will walk all over us, I say it is time for all the american people to stand up kick ass and take names
We have the right and duty to protect our selves from a tyrannical government and save our republic. We already know that Obama’s goal is to turn America into a socialist state. That in itself is the cause celebre for an insurrection if necessary.
There are alot of things I don’t need. I don’t need to be taxed to pay of some lowlife to lay around having babies, or taxes to pay judges that lets the same people out of prison time and time again. I don’t need the government telling me I have to accept queers and their lifestyle. I don’t need the government telling me what I can and can’t say, calling it hate speech. I DO need my GUNS to turn America back to the once great country it once was, before the commies got in. I will need my guns long after we kick the commies out, so that we are sure they will never be back to start over.
The National Guard is the still a military force that is subject to the governor en every state as their Commander in Chief. These sates forces are subject to being federalized as needed to augment federal forces as needed, make no mistake about Obama’s action on defense cuts will place a heavier burden on each states national guard as he shifts costs onto the states for their own protection.
Link to their role in our defense
http://www.ngaus.org/ngaus/files/ccLibraryFiles/Filename/000000000457/primer%20fin.pdf
I agree with stricter gun control! I believe that a law needs to be enacted! This law shall read as such!
“Every Native Born American citizen is obligated and has the right to purchase any weapon that is available on the public market! No individual citizen shall be forced to act upon these rights and can turn down these rights at any time! The quantity of weapons stock piling by any individual citizen shall not be inhibited unless it is determine that it is for purposes that are to be carried out against the public’s inhabitants! Every individual citizen is entitled and obligated to receive training that will be provided by the government. This training will be provided during the freshmen year of schooling! At the successful completion of this course, a single handgun with a single case of rounds will be issued and paid for by the government, to each citizen who is then liable for the care and possession of that weapon! Every citizen 18yrs or older are encouraged to apply for a concealed weapons permit and to maintain possession of a hand gun at all times! Training for the concealed weapon permit will be provided in the senior year of schooling as the permit can be attained on the day of their 18th birthday! All training shall cover safety, proper use and care for their weapon, legal condition and times when a weapon may and may not be used, and all legal consequences for the misuse of this right! Any citizen that is undergoing mental health treatment for illnesses associated with mental instability or is to receive medication that may cause mental instability will forfeit their weapons until such time that the patient is deemed as no threat and determined to be completely and fully mentally stable and safe to regain possession of their weapons! No charges shall incurred by these patients for the storage, care, security and handling of their weapons while receiving treatment! Any individual citizen who has been convicted of any violent crime, including but not limited to domestic violence, will forfeit their legal rights to bear arms! No Naturalized Citizen will be eligible for possession of any form of weaponry! No weapon shall be seized by any government representative unless misuse or abuse has been verified as set forth in the training stipulations! Any government representative, who fails to abide by this law, shall forfeit their right to bear arms and will forfeit their position as a government representative! This law shall be enacted and set in place to ensure every American their right as stated in the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution! This law shall be enacted and set in place to ensure every citizen the right of self-defense! This law shall be enacted and set in place to defend and protect our fellow humans and property! This law shall be enacted and set in place to equalize the forces of the American citizenry and the public service group known as “The Government” forces in order to allow for the defense of the public in the case where the government turns against the public in part or in whole of this country! This law shall be enacted and set in place to provide for security in the home, businesses and public locations within the borders of the United States! No government representative, agency, group, board or body has the right to infringe upon this law in any way including executive order! This law shall be enacted and set in place to ensure all Americans the ability to defend this country from invasion or attack by internal or external enemy forces that would act against the sovereignty and freedoms of these United States of America!” Get a legislator to write this up in a bill and get it passed now! Give every citizen a gun and see how many arrogant, stupid, or wacked out individuals will have the gall to attack people anywhere for any reason! The only reason they will act against under these conditions is if they wish to die! In that case, American’s will be happy to oblige!
This is real gun control! Guns in the hands of every American with the ability to control their own action and provide discouragement of the lawless! Any other method allows the lawless to be the only holders of illegal weapons that they will use against the law abiding!