Posted on 08/08/2015 2:06:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
Veteran John Arnold said he received a letter on July 30 telling him Veterans Affairs representatives were planning to come pick up his guns.
Dozens gathered in front of Arnold's home Thursday to support his right to keep those gun.
"A couple days ago it was going to be me sitting here with john and today it's quite a few folks that so it's veterans veterans taking care of veterans," said Arnold's friend Ranger Rick.
Arnold had a stroke one year ago. In January, paperwork filed with the VA stated that Arnold was financially incompetent and could not handle his own affairs.
Arnold claimed the box that was checked was done in error and he was always competent to handle himself. However, the VA said that due to the paperwork, Arnold was no longer allowed to buy, sell or possess firearms.
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A field officer with Bonner County Veteran Services made an appearance at the gathering at Arnold's home Thursday afternoon. He announced to the crowd that the VA inspector would not be coming to Arnold's house that day.
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Bastards.
I would like to see where this was passed into law by our elected representatives and signed by the president.
No...that’s hasn’t happened. This is and executive order....then the VA inspector(s) should be shot on sight for trespassing and attempting to deny this man his civil rights.
This is incredible.
The 2nd Amendment is what it's for and these townspeople are angels. I wish cities across this country were filled with such patriots.
It is not in error. It is 100% intentional. Fed.gov intends to disarm every single person in the United States— they cannot allow the subject populations to be armed. For now, they are starting with veterans, marijuana smokers (look it up), and Social Security pensioners.
“We’ll be back!!”
The pencil pusher who decided that this vet is a danger to society if he's allowed to have a gun should be fired from his or her cushy job and black-balled for life so that he or she could never get another government job. Nor a recommendation for any kind of job for that matter.
Bump
I personally know this veteran. He has some mild physical disabilities as a result of his stroke but his mind is sound and he is not a danger to anyone. How DARE the VA try to do this! Some pencil pusher screwed up big time but they will never be held to account because VA employees are members of unions and since they are part of the fedgov beast they are immune from consequences.
I know it’s not the answer but doesn’t he have a fellow vet friend who could take his guns to his own home for safe keeping, until the feds get off his a$$?
I’d do it except I’m a few thousand miles from Idaho.
Who the hell gave the Dept of Veteran Affairs the power to seize a person’s property?
I suspect this gentleman was far to open with the VA concerning his personal affairs. This is not a VA problem but a US health care problem. Anyone telling any health care provider they may have a weapon of any kind is either naive or a bit slow.
Its not the VA, its the medical community on the whole that wants to take our guns.
He needs to find a friend with a boat.
I would like to see the statutory authority for the VA to infringe on the right of any veteran to keep and bear arms. I know where the specific prohibition against such an evil act is codified as "the supreme law of the land", and I'm curious what mangled phrase the petty tyrant in our White House is using to trample the Bill of Rights this time. It's Idaho, so I hope any armed VA "agents" are smart enough not to attempt to seize a free man's weapons, that day or any other day.
I can very easily imagine an elderly American who fought against national socialists, against soviet socialists, or against the Asian socialists thinking carefully about how to respond to an excessive level of socialist evil from domestic enemies of our God-given rights. Particularity after a stroke, advanced stage cancer diagnosis, or something else that would permanently destroy quality of life, I can imagine a great American looking at the situation and deciding that the best thing he can do with the remainder of his life is stand up for freedom.
- He can once more take up arms against a sea of troubles (Hamlet);
- decide that some aspect of our current society has become destructive of the ends for which governments are formed with the consent of the governed, and instead has embarked on "a long train of abuses and usurpations" (Declaration of Independence);
- and say to himself: "whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, . . . fields . . . streets . . . hills; we shall never surrender" (Churchill).
There is a time to stand up for our own rights, and there is a time when we have nothing left to lose for ourselves but the pride of knowing we passed freedom on to our grandchildren unimpaired or at least still recoverable. I'm not a Janis Joplin fan, but she got a few phrases right. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
If the thugs come after the weapons of free Americans, it's time to reassure ourselves that we have freedom, which means nothing else left to lose. The thugs don't even have God. They assume when they die, they're dead. Many of them don't have kids, not that survived Planned Parenthood, so they don't have any interest in the future. We care more about long-term freedom for our children, our grandchildren, and other real Americans than they care about grasping for power over others, and I don't believe they are willing to pay the price if even a few percent of good, decent Americans stand up against the trampling of our God-given Second Amendment rights. There are lines that should never be crossed, and we need to refuse to back down, even a little from those lines.
VA ping.
This is just the beginning of a trial run to see if the government can deny Constitutional Rights to folks who receive “stuff” from the government. If it goes on w/o major blow-back, they will move on to more “benign” situations until eventually everyone will be denied the Rights because of some government string.
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