I will state this as
clearly as possible; if we lose our right to keep and bear arms under the
Second Amendment to the Constitution we will permanently lose our
Constitutional Republic and our freedom. We will become the subjects of a
government of elitists who have no tolerance for individual liberties or even
individual thought.
The Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution for a
specific purpose. The founding fathers had just gone through a long and bloody
revolution to secure their freedom from English tyranny and had been struggling
to form a new country that would be unlike anything the world had ever seen
before. They were forming a Constitutional Republic, and they did not know if
it would be successful.
They wanted a government run by the citizens, not one
that made people subjects of the government. However, they were aware that if
it failed and started to become a tyrannical form of government the people
would once again have to fight for their freedoms. Such a fight would require
the use of firearms, most owned by the people themselves. So the framers of the
Constitution added the Second Amendment to the document to ensure that the
right of the people to keep and bear arms would not be “infringed” upon by the
government.
Now, we have a President of the United States, a democrat
candidate for President, and the progressive democrats in Congress and the
Judiciary that have decided that the founding fathers got it all wrong. They
have determined that they are the elites who must run the government for their
benefit without interference from the ignorant low life “people.”
However, the elites have a problem; millions of Americans
are armed and still believe in the American dream of freedom. Even worse for
the progressives is the fact that millions of those armed Americans are
military veterans like me, who took an oath to “protect and defend the
constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
That is an oath that has no expiration date.
The progressives see the solution to this problem as a
simple one, abolish the Second Amendment and disarm the American people. They
have been working on this for years, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme
Court has twice ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is in fact an
individual right guaranteed to every American. The assault on the Second
Amendment has taken place at the local, state, and federal level, but has
intensified to epic proportions under the current administration.
For the past three years those of us at the United States
Justice Foundation have been working with veterans who are having their Second
and Fifth Amendment rights stripped from them by illegal and unconstitutional
actions by the federal and some state governments. Now, we are seeing the same
thing happening to Social Security recipients just as I predicted in an article
on this blog last year.
As is the policy of the progressives, they are trying to
do all of this under the radar so the American people will be unaware of what
is happening to them. Now the efforts are accelerating, and once again it is
under the radar. For several years
I have been warning that
the Obama administration has been violating federal law by illegally gathering
and storing information on Americans who legally purchase firearms.
When you go to a licensed firearm dealer you are required
to fill out a form that is then sent immediately to the FBI so a background
check to make sure you are not on the NICS list of people who are prohibited
from owning firearms. Federal law requires that once the determination has been
made, both the FBI and the firearms dealer are required to destroy the document
and keep no record of it.
The dealers
are complying with the law, but the federal government is not and the names,
addresses, and social security numbers of hundreds of thousands of Americans
have been kept on file and Obama is planning to turn that information over to
the United Nations in order to comply with a requirement of the UN Small Arms
treaty that was signed by John Kerry on Obama’s behalf, but has never been
submitted to the Senate for ratification as required by the Constitution.
Yet, despite
the fact that no treaty signed by the President can be enforced without
two-thirds of the Senate ratifying it, Obama has gone one step further. He has
signed an executive order declaring gunsmiths in the United States be
classified as firearms manufacturers that export firearms to foreign countries
and are therefore subject to UN Small Arms requirements that they pay
exorbitant fees to stay in business. The goal is obvious, to put these small
businesses that repair and refurbish firearms for American citizens out of
business.
However,
Obama was not done yet. He has ordered ATF to illegally ban the chemical compound
nitrocellulose; the key and essential ingredient in smokeless gunpowder that is
used in all firearm ammunition manufactured in the United States. This illegal
and unconstitutional action will cause the ammunition already manufactured to
be extremely expensive and new ammo eventually unavailable.
Hillary
Clinton not only agrees with everything Obama has done, but has plans of her
own to finish off the Second Amendment. She has vowed to put the NRA out of
business and wants to outlaw the private ownership of handguns, and she will
appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will finalize the destruction of the
Constitution. It is time for us to let all Americans know how important the
right to keep and bear arms is, because the elitists already know what it means
to their plans for a Nazi America, and they want to take it down along with the
rest of the Constitution.
Michael
Connelly
