Your Gun Rights Could Soon Hang In The Balance

Gun Owners of America ^ | Apr 23, 2007 | NA

[Firefigher NC]

“Just for the record, my gun rights will not “hang in the balance” by any more stupid a$$ laws. Y’all want ‘em, come get ‘em.”

I hear ya on that, Blackbird. I wonder how many folks would be disqualified from owning guns in the future because they were diagnosed “ADHD” and put on Ritalin and all other forms of speed when they were a small child? Or people who are on anti-depressants but stable? Or those who’ve visted a psychiatrist for help with family-related problems but aren’t mentally unbalanced?

[PsyOp]

Here are some sources you can quote in any letter you write.

The Second Amendment - Commentaries

[Tahoe3002]

What part of......cold, dead hands...do they fail to understand?

My guess is that pelosi/schumer/et al, don’t care, as they will not be the ones coming for your guns. They will send ATF, other LEO’s, National Guard troops, etc. for our guns. Just like they did at Waco. And my guess is that the uniforms will come, if so ordered.

BTW, I agree with you. I have never been, nor will ever be a sheeple.

[neverhillorat]

Excuse me! The NRA is one of the most powerful advocacy groups in the country. When did they “sell out”?

[neverhillorat]

Thank you , it`s nice to see that there are still a few adults posting here.

[from occupied ga]

The NRA is one of the most powerful advocacy groups in the country. When did they “sell out”?

When they worked to get the instant background check passed for one

[montag813]

Brady Law

Has anyone ever told that stupid twit Sarah Brady that the man who maimed her husband bought his revolver illegally?

[mvpel]

And the dealers are on the hook too - if they sell to someone who’s a mental-case prohibited person, and they “reasonably should have known” that, they’re facing a felony rap.

[mvpel]

When they worked to get the instant background check passed for one

The alternative is a 15-day waiting period, which had only been cut to a 10-day waiting period by the time I left California.

[from occupied ga]

The alternative is a 15-day waiting period, which had only been cut to a 10-day waiting period by the time I left California.

FALSE DICHOTOMY. This was NOT the only alternative. The real alternative would have been to REPEAL the waiting period, not make it painless or substitute an "instant background check".

[Chili Girl]

Grrrrrr

[neverhillorat]

What is wrong with instant backround checks?

[from occupied ga]

What is wrong with instant backround checks?

Glad you asked.

It changes the RIGHT to keep and bear arms into the PRIVILEGE to keep and bear arms. When you exercise a right, you don't need to ask the government's permission; it is, after all, a right. If you have to ask and get the government's permission it is no longer a right, but a privilege. A privilege can be revoked at any time for any reason or no reason. A right cannot be revoked. The instant background check basically got rid of the right to keep and bear arms and substituted the privilege to keep and bear arms instead.

[neverhillorat]

Fun to play word games but the Founders never meant that every citizen have a fire arm. There are situations where a person loses rights such as the right to vote, loss of freedom of movement or the right to own a gun.
The NRA has done more to SAVE our guns then any organization. What has GOA actually done?

[Elsie]

Am I mentally ill to want to own this?

Yes!

The clip is too small!

[Elsie]

GMTA

[AFreeBird]

Am I mentally ill to want to own this?

No, not at all. But I suspect a few too many hits of Mr. Natural^TM were involved in its design. ;-/

[Copernicus]

Apologies, I have heard this type of talk since the 1968 Gun Control Act was passed.

The only talk I listen to now is how many laws will be abolished with the 1968 Gun Control Act as a start and the 1934 Gun Control Act quickly thereafter.

Best regards,

[Shooter 2.5]

The reality is the GOA has never accomplished a single solitary thing in their existence on their own. They can’t even support other gun groups even when they are fighting for our Rights. The fun starts when the GOA accuses the NRA from distancing themselves from a fight. If it was true, why can’t the GOA get it done without the NRA’s help? The truth of the matter is the GOA is worthless.

It was the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation which supported the Katrina victims.

The GOA as usual was AWOL.

At least JPFO claims to be educational and not a lobbying group. That excuses their non performance in Washington.

The Second Amendment Sisters were a fledgling group but they still took on the Million Morons and won.

By the way, I pleaded for the GOA members to stick together and fight the common enemy and was refused countless times.

F#ck “em. The GOA is worthless.

[supercat]

What is wrong with instant backround checks?

Well, for starters:

1. How can you ensure that the government does not use the background checks to keep track of who is purchasing weapons?
2. How can you ensure that the background checks can never result, whether by design or accident, in denials for people who have a Second-Amendment right to purchase a firearm?
3. If background checks are not required for private sales, that creates such a huge 'loophole' as to render the checks almost meaningless; if they are required for private sales, that would in at least some cases create a major burden thereon.
4. Background checks put the onus on law-abiding citizens instead of on criminals. If the government insists upon allowing out in public people who would be dangerous if allowed to purchase firearms, it should equip such people with monitoring anklets or other such devices. A "background check" could be reduced to checking a purchaser's face against a current "WANTED" poster, and checking the legs for anklets.

What's good about background checks?