RAND PAUL: The government wants your gun rights

CNN ^ | Senator Paul

[JohnPDuncan]

(CNN) -- Congress is debating legislation that will limit Americans' right to keep and bear arms and infringe on the right to privacy. The Bill of Rights was made part of our Constitution explicitly to protect freedoms: the freedom of speech, protection against searches without a warrant, the right to trial by jury and the right to protect oneself with a firearm.

I am compelled to stand up for every amendment and right enumerated in the Constitution.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is attempting to push forward with gun control legislation. The chief problem I have is that nothing in this legislation would have prevented the terrible massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. I am open to ideas that would help prevent tragedies, but this legislation would not have saved us from the national heartbreak of the December school shooting.

Along with Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas, I circulated a letter promising to "oppose any legislation that would infringe on the American people's constitutional right to bear arms, or on their ability to exercise this right without being subjected to government surveillance." We have been joined by Sens. Marco Rubio, Jim Inhofe, Jerry Moran, Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, Mike Enzi, James Risch, Mike Crapo, Dan Coats and Pat Roberts. But more senators need to stand up for our Second Amendment rights or the rights will be lost.

Both the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union and the right-leaning Heritage Foundation have raised privacy concerns about the legislation pending before Congress.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Great article!

[Windflier]

Senator Rand Paul: "...more senators need to stand up for our Second Amendment rights or the rights will be lost."

Senator, I respectfully submit that more citizens need to stand up for our God-given rights, or indeed, they will be lost. And stand, they will, if the US Congress fails to uphold their oaths to the Constitution in this matter.

[Logical me]

So what in he hell are we doing about it that has any real meaning. We know all this.

[rarestia]

The chief problem I have is that nothing in this legislation would have prevented the terrible massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

This is truly the crux of the matter.

Not a damn thing proposed now or in recent history would prevent this. This is proof, in the most basic and fundamental way of deriving truth, that the Newtown massacre is being used for the sole purpose of infringing on the rights of law abiding gun owners.

Our population is so brain dead that they can't see the forest for the trees.

[Ann Archy]

Forget GUNS...the Government WANTS YOUR CHILDREN!!!

[Marcella]

I just sent an email to my senator John Cornyn asking him to join Cruz and Paul and the others. He and I go back many years. He saved my butt when a Democrat DA tried to get me removed as Judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board. That went all the way to Cornyn’s office as he was our State Attorney General at that time. I knew I was right, and Cornyn’s opinion sealed it that I was right and could be that judge. I mentioned that in my email and hope that will push him some to join the others.

[Joe Brower]

"The government wants your gun rights"

Can't have 'em.

[Joe Brower]

Anne Archy wrote:
"Forget GUNS...the Government WANTS YOUR CHILDREN!!!"

Excellent point. Can't have them, either.

[Noumenon]

What would Michael Collins do?

[JohnPDuncan]

TX students tell Piers Morgan: We need guns!

http://youtu.be/Ex1oQVyR0CQ

[Still Thinking]

RAND PAUL: The government wants your gun rights

I'm already using them.

[Conserev1]

Actually they not only want your gun rights they want your life period!
Cradle to Grave a ward of the State!
Can you say 1984 the sequel with added impunity!

[golux]

The Constitution doesn’t grant rights, it merely affirms our natural, God-given rights. That’s what “inalienable” means... NOBODY can take them away. You can take away our guns, but you can only temporarily, and at great personal risk, take away our rights. Can I get an Amen, Brothers and Sisters!

[Graewoulf]

Tyrant Kim Un Obama must be very pleased that his efforts have so easily “FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”

[onyx]

GOOD on you, dearest Marcella and thank you very much!

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[SoConPubbie]

You're right on this Rand, now, do real conservatives a favor and drop your plan to "Normalize"(Amnesty) the 40 million+ Illegal Aliens in this country better known as "Undocumented Democrats".

When you do that, I'll know you are serious about being President and actually representing conservatives.

Until then, you are simply pandering to the left like the GOP-E.

[onyx]

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