Posted on 11/15/2012 11:56:37 AM PST by neverdem
The NRA has been saying all along that Barack Obama would unleash an assault on our Second Amendment freedoms if he won a second term. It sure didn’t take long for him to prove us right.
Just hours after Obama won re-election last Tuesday, his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year. The official starting point for the new talks is last year’s failed draft, which contains provisions that threaten our sovereign right to keep and bear arms through an international gun registration scheme.
And not long after Obama floated the idea of banning semi-automatic firearms, we learned that California Senator Dianne Feinstein was working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to draft new legislation that would ban semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns, so-called “high capacity” magazines, and rifles and shotguns with pistol grips. Reportedly, Feinstein wants to make it illegal not just to sell your guns and magazines, but to leave them behind in your will.
Not surprisingly, the lights had hardly gone out at Obama’s victory celebration last week when gun-hating New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with his pollster, Frank Luntz, were conducting push polls to promote government control over every firearm transfer — including between fathers and sons, and grandfathers and grandsons.
In Bloomberg’s world, a child wouldn’t be able to tear the wrapping paper off his first .22 rifle on Christmas morning unless Santa Claus had first cleared it with Obama’s bureaucrats.
I know a lot of folks are still down about last week’s presidential election. It’s puzzling how so many Americans can tell pollsters that the country is on the wrong track, then vote to keep the same guy driving the train.
But this isn’t the first time in history when gun owners and NRA members have faced a difficult challenge, and it won’t be the first time we’ve risen to the occasion and come out victorious. The Second Amendment wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for the courage of tens of millions of gun owners and freedom-loving Americans across our nation, and throughout our history.
As long as dedicated patriots continue to band together and fight as though freedom itself is on the line — because it is — we will defend the Second Amendment in Obama’s second term and save it for generations to come.
For gun owners, the next four years won’t just be the fight of our lives, it will be a fight for the future of our nation. We’re ready to lead the charge.
Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.
Your FReeper name is "neverdem"....yet you are okay with the NRA voting/supporting/backing Dem's.
Fair enough....but I'm not. Dim's can be sincere or fake about their support for the 2nd Amendment..Although I will never vote for them. As far as I'm concerned anymore, they are against the very core of my country.
No offense, but you are a complete and utter moron if you believe that.
If passed as it has been represented so far, Feinstein’s new “AWB” will be the most sweeping, most extensive, Massive, intrusive, most ‘infringing’, and anti-Constitutional anti-gun law ever passed.
It will deny the intent, and the letter of the Second Amendment and several other Amendments regarding personal property rights.
Compared to the weak and ineffective first AWB, it will be more restrictive regarding many more, if not most rifles in private hands today. It will confiscate at some point, private property. It will go down in history as the turning point where gun rights started to end in a very big way. It will be a legal, Constitutional, and political nightmare as this sort of legislation ALWAYS is.
It will be the biggest disaster the Obama administration can possibly inflict upon itself. I almost want them to try it.
He doesn't believe in it. He likes writing and signing Executive Orders much better.
Why should he bother with the old way if he doesn't have to? He thinks he doesn't have to. What are you gonna do about it?
What am I going to do about it?
Any bravado as to violence would be very unwise to post on the internet. I even suspect people who bait people to such statements might be law enforcement attempting to smoke out the potential trouble makers to track them down.
So I would say I would try my very hardest to get my elected officials to observe their Constitutional obligations they swore to uphold. And I encourage everyone else to do the same.
Pi$$ on his “executive order”.
They want to ban all the so called assault weapons EXCEPT for Mexican drug dealers.
What’s scary is the senate could well ratify this treaty.
Where can you buy guns from individuals? Where do you find those who are selling? Isn’t there a background check at gun shows?
With obummer term ii, the scotus will shift to uphold it as constitutional.
Of course you can provide concrete proof of that allegation, can't you?
Nah.
It appears that the same dumbasses who trashed Romney for not being conservative enough are also trashing the NRA. Didn’t you idiots learn anything when you helped re-elect Obama?
"Why do you think over 60 rats sent a letter telling Holder to pound sand as far as a renewal of a so called "assault weapon" ban in March 2009? If the NRA supports a rat who (is) solid on the Second Amendment, then that's OK with me. That's all I expect of the NRA, taking care of the Second Amendment."
It's not easy attempting to cure ignorance, but somebody has to do it. I for one, thank you for trying.
No worries, I just wanted to know the status of the NRA & Reid, we will have to watch to what happens.
Bingo!
That’s why I dropped them and hang up on them when they call!
BZZZZT!!! Wrongo!
According to Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution for the United States, "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;"
That means 34 can do it legally, although there is indication it has been done with fewer that two thirds of a legal quorum. Feeling so fat, dumb, and happy now?
To learn more about this original Trojan horse within the Constitution go here.
Wrong. See post 96.
You’re welcome.
That fact is, most models of politicians are more like capons. The only balls they have are the voters who yell at them the loudest. Otherwise, they aren't going to care. It's too difficult and the odds are stacked too high against them.
They won't do the right thing unless enough people tell them what the right thing is emphatically enough that they hear it.
It's a long way to DC and the quiet sounds a handful of voters make just doesn't travel very far. They won't hear it, not with DC's music blaring in the background.
It would take repeal of the 2nd Amendment, for the UN Treaty to have any effect in the United States, even if the Senate irresponsibly ratified the treaty.
In any case, enabling legislation would fail in the House.
The People know you can't amend the Constitution by treaty.
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