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By Alan Caruba
When we celebrate the Fourth of July<http://www.history.com/topics/july-4th>,
let’s keep in mind that the first
Americans<http://www.history.com/topics/states>won their independence
from England with the force of arms. It was, in fact,
a British effort in 1775 to confiscate military arms they believed were
stored in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts that sparked the war.
The Founding Fathers were so aware of the need for an armed citizenry that,
after ensuring freedom of religion, speech, press and the right to
peacefully assemble in the First Amendment, the Second guaranteed their
right to bear arms.
Wherever authoritarian regimes were established in the last century, they
took away this right and then proceeded to kill those deemed enemies of the
state.
At this point in American history, the Obama
administration<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/obama-administration>constitutes
a threat to the Constitution in general and the Second
Amendment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>in
particular.
*More than 80,000,000 Americans are gun owners.*
Two of the organizations that have been fighting to protect these rights are
the Second Amendment
Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_Foundation>(SAF)
and the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Committee_for_the_Right_to_Keep_and_Bear_Arms>(CCRKBA),
both led by Alan M. Gottlieb. Three quarters of the SAF budget is
devoted to defending rights pertaining to the ownership of guns and to carry
them for self-defense.
In March, the Huffington Post had an article titled "Obama Looking for Ways
Around Congress on Gun
Policy"<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/obama-gun-laws-congress_n_836138.html>by
Sam Stein. "Faced with a Congress hostile to even slight restrictions
of
Second Amendment rights, the Obama administration is exploring potential
changes to gun laws that can be secured strictly through executive action,
administration officials, say."
*Since then we have learned of a U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms<http://www.atf.gov/>program, Fast and Furious, that actually
facilitated the sale and transfer
of guns to Mexico. How demented is that?*
In May in my home state of New Jersey the SAF won a decision against
officials for the deprivation of civil rights under the color of law when
they had ruled that an applicant for a concealed carry permit had not
demonstrated a "justifiable need" for it. In point of fact, the applicant,
Philip Muller, had been kidnapped by members of a motorcycle gang who
threatened to kill him. They had, however, grabbed the wrong man.
Despite support by local and state police, action on his application was
delayed for six months. Morris County Superior Court Judge David Ironson
issued a directive that a permit should be granted. The case is still
on-going with other plaintiffs that include a part-time sheriff’s deputy, an
applicant who carries large amounts of cash in his private business, and a
civilian employee of the FBI with legitimate concerns of an attack from a
radical Islamic group.
Currently nearly thirty such cases have either been brought or joined by SAF
to stop abuses of this most fundamental right of American citizens ranging
from bans on interstate handgun sales, New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg<http://www.biography.com/articles/Michael-Bloomberg-16466704>’s
imposition of a $340 fee for a permit to keep a handgun in one’s home, and a
Chicago ban on gun ranges open to the public. These cases cost between
$60,000 and $80,000 each!
*The greatest single threat to gun ownership right now is a United Nations
"Small Arms Treaty" falsely identified as an "international arms control
treaty" allegedly to fight terrorism."*
"In reality," says Gottlieb, it is "a massive, global gun control scheme.
It’s a sham. It’s a fraud." If the U.S., under the Obama administration and
with the consent of the Senate, were to sign on to this treaty, it would
nullify the Second Amendment.
Suffice to say that the Obama administration wants to have the power to
increase federal fees on guns and ammunition, to ban guns that are imported,
to extend the waiting periods for permits, to ban the use of guns on all
government property, and even to make it illegal if you own a gun and smoke!
Americans do not have to "justify" gun ownership. It is guaranteed by the
Second Amendment. The reality is that enemies of this fundamental rights
continue to wage an assault on it.
For information about SAF visit http://www.saf.org/ and CCRKBA at
http://www.ccrkba.org/.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
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