“United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it” – Gregory Nunn
The Second Amendment debate is a never-ending and ongoing debate that has taken the argument all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. District of Columbia v. Heller,1 held that the Second Amendment is an individual’s protected right to possess a firearm for lawful purposes in federal enclaves; Purposes such as self-defense within the personal domicile. McDonald v. Chicago,2 was also a landmark Supreme Court decision to determine whether the Second Amendment is applicable to the individual states. Summarily, the Court held an individual’s right to “keep and bear arms” is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and does in fact apply to states. It is without dispute that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is fundamentally, culturally, and socially a cornerstone of American life, underscoring the natural right of self-defense which is essential to liberty.
As of 1986, thirty-five states had some form of right to carry through licensure. of those thirty-five states, only eight were “shall-issue” states (meaning a license must be issued if no legal reason existed to prohibit such issuance); nineteen of those states were “may-issue” states (meaning the issuing authority could issue or deny upon his or her own discretion) and only one state (Vermont) was unrestricted (meaning no licensure required to carry a firearm concealed or openly). Fifteen states were “no-issue” states. Meanwhile, Legislatures across the nation acted over the last 25 years. Presently forty-eight states have some form of right to carry through licensure. Wisconsin and Illinois still do not allow citizens the right to carry guns, nor does the District of Columbia.
A whole lot of people, organizations and groups, have spent time, money and energy to advocate for second amendment issues, pass laws and pave the way for the right to keep and bear arms. Despite this, it totally confounds me why some of our citizens, despite their stated support for the second amendment, still turn around and vote for gun-grabbing liberals like Barack Obama?
This pusillanimous administration is not going to take our guns. Instead, they will rub elbows with the UN through an Arms Treaty Resolution, that enjoying the support of the Obama Administration. A conference is slated to convene in 2012 to flesh out the details for enacting the measure. The U.S. joins 152 other nations in endorsing the treaty and Secretary of State Clinton has committed to lobbying for ratification in the United States Senate.
The terms of the treaty have not been made public yet. But if this measure is adopted by the U.N. and ratified by the Senate, clearly, it will cede our national sovereignty. Forbes’ Larry Bell tells us,”if passed by the U.N. and ratified by our Senate, it will almost certainly force the U.S. to:
- Tougher licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership.
- Confiscation and destruction of “unauthorized” civilian firearms (exempting those owned by our government of course).
- Ban the trade, sale and private ownership of all semi-automatic weapons (any that have magazines even though they still operate in the same one trigger pull – one single “bang” manner as revolvers, a simple fact the ant-gun media never seem to grasp).
- Create an international gun registry, clearly setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
So, for all our toil; For all of our advocacy; For all of our voting, support, lobbying and participation to ensure that we as a state….as a nation have the laws of the land that, we the people choose, these cowards in the Obama Administration will side-step us all and place such restrictions on us that we neither supported, asked for or voted for. So think long and hard about that when you claim to support the right to keep and bear arms and then go to the ballot box and support a gun-grabber.
1. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HELLER (No. 07-290)
478 F. 3d 370, affirmed.
2. MCDONALD v. CHICAGO, 561 U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 3020 (2010),
