1.Protect our property
2.Protect our borders
3.PROTECT US FROM OUR GOVERNMENT!
Posted on 07/29/2023 5:34:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Biden administration has launched a two-pronged attack against the right to bear arms in America – and Congressional Republicans made it possible. Regardless of what certain lawmakers intended, and despite all their assurances this wouldn’t happen, the Biden administration is using the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) of 2022 to both bribe states into creating red flag laws and withhold federal funding for schools with hunting and archery programs. So the Biden administration is buying gun control at the state level. Shocked? Don’t be. This isn’t the first time federal funding has been used to control the states.
Safer Communities Means Less Education?
In what experts are calling a “direct attack on hunters’ ability to pass down hunting to the newest generations,” the Biden administration is blocking federal funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 for schools with hunting and archery programs.
Tommy Floyd, president of the National Archery in the Schools Program, told Fox News Digital that it’s a negative for children. “As a former educator of 30-plus years, I was always trying to find a way to engage students,” he said. “You’ve got every fish and wildlife agency out there working so hard to utilize every scrap of funding, not only for the safety and hunter education, but for the general understanding of why stewardship is so important when it comes to natural resources,” he continued. “Any guidance where it’s even considered a ‘maybe’ or a prohibition for shooting sports is a huge negative.”
Floyd’s organization boasts 1.3 million students from almost 9,000 schools across 49 states who are enrolled in archery classes. Some of these schools have already canceled their archery or hunting courses because of the new federal funding guidance. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC)...
(Excerpt) Read more at libertynation.com ...
The only thing that surprises me, it took them this long. I really expected this kind of stuff to start much sooner. Thanks John Cornyn.
Think we can vote our way out?
Think we can shoot our way out?
I have known that was an impossibility since 4 November, 2020.
1.Protect our property
2.Protect our borders
3.PROTECT US FROM OUR GOVERNMENT!
“I like taking guns away early. Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
“IEDs are by far the most significant cause of ISAF and ANSF casualties in Afghanistan. The US Department of Defense defines an IED as a “device placed or fabricated in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, pyrotechnic, or incendiary chemicals and designed to destroy, incapacitate, harass, or distract. While IEDs might contain military parts, they are normally constructed from non-military components. The term IED was originally developed by the British military in the 1970s, in response to the widespread use of homemade bombs consisting of agricultural fertilisers and plastic explosives by the Irish Republican Army.”
“In military terms, most IEDs, whether lethal or not, achieve a so-called ‘block’ function, whereby insurgents try to deny ISAF or ANSF troops access to key areas or prevent them from advancing in certain directions. In this way, IEDs disrupt and slow manoeuvre and momentum in counter-insurgency operations at the local level, which can, ultimately, have a strategic effect”
“A command wire IED is an IED that is initiated by an electrical firing cable that gives the firer complete control over the device until detonation occurs. In Afghanistan, the firing wire is often buried under roads, walls or buildings and therefore is very difficult to detect. The device is usually detonated by attaching a small battery to the wire that fires the electrical charge to the explosive device(s). These wires are often very long, in order to protect the firer from the explosion, so overwatchers, so-called ‘dickers’, are frequently employed to watch the site of such an IED and alert the firer when ISAF or ANSF forces approach. Often, these overwatchers are children, creating many complexities in terms of the military rules of engagement.”
“Radio-controlled IEDs are initiated by radio link. The device is constructed with a receiver connected to an electronic firing circuit. The firer operates the transmission device from a distance, and the signal from the transmitter then causes the receiver to transmit a firing pulse that initiates a switch. Often, this switch fires the initiator, but it can also be used to remotely arm a device. These IEDs can be triggered by any number of different mechanisms, including car alarms, wireless garage openers, cell phones, pagers and encrypted walkie talkies”
“Victim operated IED switches are often well hidden from the victim or disguised as everyday household objects, such as oil cans or crockery. When the object is moved, the IED’s switch is triggered. Switching mechanisms include tripwires, pressure plates or mats, spring-loaded releases as well as switches activated when pushed, pulled or tilted. They are often buried on roads to destroy vehicles or are used against foot patrols. These IEDs are the most commonly used in Afghanistan, accounting for approximately 70 per cent of IEDs, according to British military officials. A particularly common form of victim-operated IEDs works with pressure plates. These are often triggered by two hack-saw blades separated using a spacer. Stepping on or driving over these blades completes an electronic circuit, detonating the explosives.”
“Passive infra-red IEDs use a laser infra-red beam as a trigger mechanism, which is almost undetectable. They produce explosively formed projectiles and proved devastatingly effective in Iraq against even the most heavily armoured vehicles. They were also developed by insurgents to negate the increasing effectiveness of Coalition technologies targeted at blocking radio frequencies.”
“So-called ‘daisy chain’ IEDs, which consist of numerous, inter-linked IEDs, have been used to cause mass casualties against foot patrols.”
“In terms of survivability, vehicle designs are continuously evolving to counter the IED threat. Floating V-shaped hulls, increased armour and better design are common to the safest vehicles now operating in Afghanistan, such as the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP), Mastiff and Ridgeback armoured patrol vehicles. Roller systems have been attached to vehicles to reduce the effectiveness of pressure-detonated, victim-operated IEDs and to maintain mobility, as have jammer systems. Vast improvements in military medical systems and equipment technology, such as surgical teams on casualty extraction helicopters, better haemorrhage-preventing medical equipment and shortened flight times from the battlefield to the nearest hospital, continue to lower the lethality of successful IED strikes, as have improvements in lightweight body armour.”
“Whereas soldiers on ISTAR missions usually lose their effectiveness after a certain number of hours, a Predator can stay in the air for up to 40 hours, for example. Thus, drones can often hover for hours over acquired targets. Precision is a crucial aspect as well. Hellfire missiles, a common type employed with the widely-used Predator and Reaper models, are more precise than air strikes conducted by manned bombers. Still, they often cause collateral damage, and, hence, the defence industry is working hard to develop smaller and more precise missiles, designed for urban use, such as the 35-pound, 11-cm-in-diameter Scorpion or the even smaller 13-pound Small Tactical Munition.”
“On 14 November 2001, the first strike of an armed UAV took place in Afghanistan, when a combined F-15/Predator attack killed Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, including Mohammed Atef, al-Qaeda’s senior military commander and one of the key planners of the attacks of 11 September 2001.”
“UAV flights also try to spot insurgents who are in the process of placing IEDs. The US military, for example, currently has over 25 ‘round-the-clock’ surveillance patrols in the air, compared to only nine in 2008.60 Convoy roads are a prime target for laying IEDs. Countries like Australia thus watch over key roads with unarmed surveillance drones, and British and American UAVs, equipped with missiles, neutralise bomb planters if spotted.”
“At this point, more than 60 balloons are tethered in the skies over Afghanistan, and the United States aims to double this number in 2011. Flying about 600 m above ground, the balloons can monitor activities in large areas, having a maximum sensor range of about 32 km.”
“The M-160 (MV4B) is a larger, car-sized robot on tracks that clears mine or IED fields by striking the soil with metal flails on a roller in front of the vehicle.”
“Under President Obama, the United States has considerably stepped up the controversial, secret drone strikes on suspected militants in Pakistan. These strikes have come under renewed and extensive scrutiny and criticism after the Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden. Notably, the operation was not carried out by a drone strike, but by US Special Forces on the ground, with a low-observable RQ-170 Sentinel providing surveillance and a continuous data feed to the White House. Since his inauguration in 2009, the President has presumably ordered or approved up to 223 drone attacks, according to the New America Foundation, a non-partisan US think tank that closely monitors the UAV campaign in Pakistan, keeping in mind that the United States does not publicly deny or confirm these strikes. At the time of writing, 52 strikes had already taken place in 2011. In contrast, the Bush Administration ordered only about 50 attacks in eight years.”
“After the raid in Abbottabad, which Pakistan’s authorities have vehemently protested against as a severe violation of their sovereignty....”
“The precise US guidelines for applying lethal force during UAV missions in Pakistan are,
naturally, classified. However, Amitai Etzioni, a national security expert from George Washington University, has said, based on confidential interviews, that a points system is being used, whereby higher numbers are allotted to civilians in the target area and lower numbers to enemy combatants – the higher value the target, the lower the numbers. The higher the total score, the less likely it is that the strike will be approved and the higher up the decision must be made. Sources familiar with the procedures say that the US Ambassador to Pakistan must sign off on every strike.”
“the government did, indeed, shut down NATO supply lines
to Afghanistan in 2010, after a helicopter intrusion from Afghanistan left several Pakistani soldiers dead”
https://www.ft.dk/samling/20111/almdel/npa/bilag/7/1042253.pdf
After you destroy the supply chain with booby traps, there will be millions of starving people roaming the countryside looking for food.
It won’t matter how much food you have stored or guns or ammo, you will eventually be overwhelmed.
That’s the whole reason they are bringing in millions of illegals.
“Or, Mike, take the firearms first, and then go to court,” Trump responded.
Why are we just hearing about this now ?
It was signed by dip$}{!T on 06/25/22...
Tennessee is stupidly pushing one of these.
Disarm the public by any means necessary - then the real killings start. Just like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler - all heroes of the authoritarian left.
Traitor
S.2938 - Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
117th Congress (2021-2022)
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] (Introduced 10/05/2021)
From the Summary:
TITLE II—FIREARMS
This title makes various changes to federal firearms laws, including to expand background check requirements for persons who are under 21 years of age, to establish new criminal offenses for straw purchasing of firearms and trafficking in firearms, and to extend federal firearms-related restrictions to individuals convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors against dating partners.
(Sec. 12001) This section establishes additional requirements for firearms-related background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for prospective purchasers who are 18 to 21 years of age.
Specifically, if a federal firearms licensee (e.g., a gun dealer) contacts the NICS to initiate a firearms-related background check on a person who is 18 to 21 years of age, then this section requires the NICS to contact additional record systems—state criminal history or juvenile justice repositories, state custodians of mental health records, and local law enforcement agencies—for possibly disqualifying juvenile records. Current law already requires the NICS to query national data systems for disqualifying records of an individual who is prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm.
Additionally, if cause exists to further investigate a possibly disqualifying juvenile record of a person who is 18 to 21 years of age, then this section allows a firearm transfer to be delayed for up to 10 business days.
The requirement for the NICS to contact additional record systems expires in 10 years.
(Sec. 12002) This section revises the definition of engaged in the business as applicable to a firearms dealer who is required to be federally licensed. Specifically, it provides that a person who sells firearms to predominantly earn a profit (currently, who sells firearms with the principal objective of livelihood and profit) is engaged in the business of dealing in firearms and is therefore required to be federally licensed.
(Sec. 12003) This section allows grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program to be used to implement state crisis intervention programs or initiatives, including mental health courts, drug courts, veterans’ courts, and extreme risk protection order programs (i.e., red flag laws).
(Sec. 12004) This section establishes a federal statutory framework to prohibit straw purchasing of firearms, trafficking in firearms, and related conduct.
A violator is subject to criminal and civil penalties, including the seizure and forfeiture of the firearms and ammunition involved in the offense, property constituting or derived from proceeds from the offense, and property used to commit or facilitate the offense.
The section authorizes law enforcement to investigate straw purchasing and trafficking in firearms offenses using wiretaps (i.e., authorized interceptions of wire, electronic, or oral communications) and makes the offenses predicate offenses (i.e., underlying offenses) for prosecutions under the federal money laundering statute and the federal racketeering statute.
(Sec. 12005) This section extends federal firearms-related restrictions to individuals who are convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence against an individual in a current or recent former dating relationship. Currently, the restrictions generally only apply to individuals who are convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor against a co-parent of a child, a current or former spouse, a current or former cohabitant as a spouse, or a person similarly situated to a spouse.
The term dating relationship means a continuing relationship of a serious or intimate nature, as determined based on the length of the relationship, the nature of the relationship, and the frequency and type of interaction between the individuals involved in the relationship.
This section specifies that for individuals who are convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence against a dating partner, the federal firearms-related restrictions apply only to convictions on or after the date of enactment and expire five years after the conviction date if certain conditions are met.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2938
"In what experts are calling a “direct attack on hunters’ ability to pass down hunting to the newest generations,” the Biden administration is blocking federal funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA [??? emphasis added]) of 1965 for schools with hunting and archery programs."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
With all due respect to Freeper parents, please consider the following.
If parents were making sure that their local schools were teaching their children the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the drafters of the Constitution had intended for those powers to be understood, then children would be able to calm their parents down on this Democratic weaponization of so-called "federal" funding for INTRAstate schools with the following explanation of unconstitutional federal overreach concerning such funding.
The first problem with Biden's unconstitutional policies is that House RINOs seem to be stalling with respect to impeaching Biden imo.
Exclusive: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment! (6.10.23)
Next, President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, had indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution to give Congress the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schooling, — something that the states have never done!
"The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And federal funding for militia readiness aside, since schooling is a state power issue, the Supreme Court has clarified that Congress cannot appropriate taxes for state power purposes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Justice Joseph Story later reflected on Jefferson's words, not only likewise indicating that the feds have no constitutional power to stick their big noses (my words) into intrastate schooling, but also clarifying that neither do the feds have the constitutional authority to tax and spend on behalf of taking care of the poor, federal taxing and spending in the name of intrastate welfare unconstitutional imo.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bigham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Regarding Congress letting Biden get away with using state revenues that the feds have stolen from the states to weaken 2A, consider that the congressional record also shows that when Bingham read the Bill of Rights as main examples of costitutional enumerated privileges and immunities that 14A applies to the states, he included the 2nd Amendment (2A).
“See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about middle of 2nd column.” — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe
So instead of Biden threatening intrastate schools with a loss of "federal" funding to weaken 2A, he should actually be signing bills from Congress that strengthen all constitutionally enumerated rights, including 2A.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnished an additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So Congress is letting Biden get away with threatening the states with a loss of so-called "federal" funding that is arguably state revenues that the very corrupt, post-16th and 17th Amendment ratification federal government is now regularly stealing from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according to the excerpt from Gibbons v. Ogden above.
In other words, the so-called "federal" funding provided by Pres. Johnson's unconstitutional (imo), Democratic vote-winning Elementary and Secondary Education Act should have never left the states in the first place imo.
The bottom line is that the states need to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues.
More specifically, Democratic and Republican Trump-supporting patriots need to get ready ASAP to primary ALL state and federal politicians for 2024 elections.
After all, incumbents are still not doing their jobs to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies, evidenced by Biden's threat to cut "federal" funding for intrastate schools, again, funding that Congress shouldn't be appropriating taxes for in the first place.
Trump can still endorse candidates, but choosing candidates from lists of patriot candidates that respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers that patriots provide for Trump.
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
extreme risk protection order programs,
which must include, at a minimum—
``(I) pre-deprivation and post-
deprivation due process rights that
prevent any violation or infringement of
the Constitution of the United States,
including but not limited to the Bill of
Rights, and the substantive or
procedural due process rights guaranteed
under the Fifth and Fourteenth
Amendments to the Constitution of the
United States, as applied to the States,
and as interpreted by State courts and
United States courts (including the
Supreme Court of the United States).
Such programs must include, at the
appropriate phase to prevent any
violation of constitutional rights, at
minimum, notice, the right to an in-
person hearing, an unbiased adjudicator,
the right to know opposing evidence, the
right to present evidence, and the right
to confront adverse witnesses;
``(II) the right to be represented
by counsel at no expense to the
government;
``(III) pre-deprivation and post-
deprivation heightened evidentiary
standards and proof which mean not less
than the protections afforded to a
similarly situated litigant in Federal
court or promulgated by the State’s
evidentiary body, and sufficient to
ensure the full protections of the
Constitution of the United States,
including but not limited to the Bill of
Rights, and the substantive and
procedural due process rights guaranteed
under the Fifth and Fourteenth
Amendments to the Constitution of the
United States, as applied to the States,
and as interpreted by State courts and
United States courts (including the
Supreme Court of the United States). The
heightened evidentiary standards and
proof under such programs must, at all
appropriate phases to prevent any
violation of any constitutional right,
at minimum, prevent reliance upon
evidence that is unsworn or unaffirmed,
irrelevant, based on inadmissible
hearsay, unreliable, vague, speculative,
and lacking a foundation; and
``(IV) penalties for abuse of the
program.’’.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2938/text
I vividly recall his comments to the Greensboro City Council on the 2nd Amendment. Had me on my feet cheering! I shared it several times. (Video of Mark's dynamite 4 minute remarks below.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBEUlJZg5CY
I'll send Mark some $$ and hope others will as well. What's not to love about a black man who scares the pants off the Democrats?
Mark Robinson is solid gold. The Democrats despise him, because he openly believes in God and salvation. They hate him because he is a black self-made Republican. They try to destroy him, because he preaches to the black community that individual self-reliance is all they need to pull themselves up. The education establishment detests him because he wants good education for our children, not good benefits for the teachers’ unions.
Money is pouring in from all over the country to destroy him and his campaign for Governor. He represents the worst nightmare for the Democrat Party, and they are terrified of him. He has two primary opponents, which the Democrats are trying to boost, in order to primary him out. So far, he seems to have majority support among North Carolina grass roots Republicans, but the Republican establishment hates him the same way the Democrats do.
I will be campaigning for him as the cycle progresses. I really hope he is NC's next Governor.
“In the wake of a mass shooting in Nashville, Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee signed an executive order on Tuesday strengthening background checks for gun purchases. The Republican governor also called for lawmakers to pass a so-called red flag law that would temporarily remove guns from dangerous people.”
Governor Lee is a major RINO/wussie.
“There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth. And yes I called it filth. And if you don’t like that I called it filth, come see me and I’ll explain it to you.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robinson_(American_politician)
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