THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 168, July 2, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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THERE IS NO FIRST AMENDMENT WITHOUT A SECOND AMENDMENT
By Alan Caruba
THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: THE RIGHT TO
BEAR ARMS -- THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AS A THREAT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IN GENERAL & THE SECOND
AMENDMENT IN PARTICULAR -- THE GREAT DANGER OF THE PROPOSED UNITED NATIONS "SMALL ARMS TREATY"
FULL STORY:
When we celebrate the Fourth of July, let’s keep in mind that the first Americans won their independence from England
with the force of arms. It was, in fact, a British effort in 1775 to confiscate military arms they believed were stored in
Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, that sparked the War of the American Revolution, or Revolutionary War.
The Founding Fathers were so aware of the need for an armed citizenry that, after ensuring freedom of religion, speech,
press and the right to peacefully assemble in the First Amendment, the Second guaranteed their right to bear arms.
Wherever authoritarian regimes were established in the last century, they took away this right and then proceeded to
kill those deemed enemies of the state.
At this point in American history, the Obama administration constitutes a threat to the United States Constitution in
general and the Second Amendment in particular.
More than 80,000,000 Americans are gun owners.
Two of the organizations that have been fighting to protect these rights are the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)
and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), both led by Alan M. Gottlieb. Three
quarters of the SAF budget is devoted to defending rights pertaining to the ownership of guns and to carry them for
self-defense.
In March, 2011, the Liberal Huffington Post had an article titled “Obama Looking for Ways Around Congress
on Gun Policy” by Sam Stein. “Faced with a Congress hostile to even slight restrictions of Second Amendment rights,
the Obama administration is exploring potential changes to gun laws that can be secured strictly through executive
action, administration officials, say.” [1]
Since then we have learned of a U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms program, Fast and Furious, that actually
facilitated the sale and transfer of guns to Mexico. How demented is that?
In May, 2011, in my home state of New Jersey, the SAF won a decision against officials for the deprivation of civil rights
under the color of law when they had ruled that an applicant for a concealed carry permit had not demonstrated a
“justifiable need” for it. In point of fact, the applicant, Philip Muller, had been kidnapped by members of a motorcycle
gang who threatened to kill him. They had, however, grabbed the wrong man.
Despite support by local and state police, action on his application was delayed for six months. Morris County Superior
Court Judge David Ironson issued a directive that a permit should be granted. The case is still on-going with other
plaintiffs that include a part-time sheriff’s deputy, an applicant who carries large amounts of cash in his private business,
and a civilian employee of the FBI with legitimate concerns of an attack from a radical Islamic group.
Currently nearly thirty such cases have either been brought or joined by SAF to stop abuses of this most fundamental
right of American citizens ranging from bans on interstate handgun sales, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s
imposition of a $340 fee for a permit to keep a handgun in one’s home, and a Chicago ban on gun ranges open to the
public. These cases cost between $60,000 and $80,000 each!
The greatest single threat to gun ownership right now is a United Nations “Small Arms Treaty” falsely identified as an
“international arms control treaty” allegedly to fight terrorism.”
“In reality,” says Gottlieb, it is “a massive, global gun control scheme. It’s a sham. It’s a fraud.” If the U.S.A., under the
Obama administration and with the consent of the U.S. Senate, were to sign on to this treaty, it would nullify the Second
Amendment.
Suffice to say that the Obama administration wants to have the power to increase federal fees on guns and ammunition,
to ban guns that are imported, to extend the waiting periods for permits, to ban the use of guns on all government
property, and even to make it illegal if you own a gun and smoke!
Americans do not have to “justify” gun ownership. It is guaranteed by the Second Amendment. The reality is that
enemies of this fundamental right continue to wage an assault on it.
For information about SAF, visit http://www.saf.org/ and CCRKBA at http://www. ccrkba.org/.
NOTE:
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/obama-gun-laws-congress_n_836138. html
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
U.S. Constitutional Law & Political Philosophy
Civil Liberties -- American Constitutional Rights & Liberties:
The Basic Rights & Liberties of Americans
Under the U.S. Federal & State Constitutions
Personal Rights & Liberties -- Issues Relating to
Individual Rights & Liberties under Natural & Civil Law
The Constitution of the United States of America
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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