As some of you may know, I just started a group on LinkedIn called Patriots for America. While I was researching and figuring out that group name, I ran across a website called www.ouramericanvalues.org. I looked around a bit on the website and saw a comment on the “About Us” page that made me think that maybe this site was actually anti- 2nd Amendment. I called the number on the website (this is actually a website for a non-profit organization) and talked to a very nice young lady that referred me to the president of the organization, Gary Bauer. Gary Bauer worked in the Reagan administration and he ran for President of the US for the 2000 election. I gave the gal my email info and name and Mr. Bauer sent me an email. He says he supports the 2nd Amendment although it’s not one of his organizations primary issues. I sent a response email to him. I have included the emails for your perusal. Check out the emails and check out his website. If you agree with me, please send him an email (use the Contact Us link on his site) and ask him to put a statement on his website that unequivocally shows his support for the 2nd Amendment. Read more…
I have been doing some reading on the heinous crimes that have been committed with that terrible weapon, the baseball bat. Read these articles. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509353,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,483124,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Mar03/0,4670,BrothersHateCrime,00.html Read more…
I received an email from one of the organizations that I support, GunsAmerica (www.gunsamerica.com) and there was a link in it to a video of people peacefully protesting in the UK that they want their gun rights restored. I think the video is actually a couple of years old as somewhere in it a poster mentions Tony Blair, the former PM of the UK. Over the years, they have given up their rights for the mistaken belief that they would be safer if guns were not available. Of course, the law-abiding citizenry turned in their guns and now only criminals have them. One of the posters in the video has dates of when certain events happened, a ban on self loading(semi auto) rifles – 1989, Handguns – 1997, Fox hunting – 2002, and it asks what’s next, when will this stop? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTq2NEUlhDE For those who haven’t noticed, there are many events that occur in the UK that actually then occur here in the US. It’s almost as if there is a foreshadowing that occurs. If we don’t get our government, but even more importantly, our citizens, to understand that our 2nd Amendment rights should be left alone, we will be in a real world of hurt. The government cannot take care of each individual. It’s just not possible. They try and fail miserably. In the wake of hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans police and the National Guard confiscated weapnos from law-abiding citizens. Their theory was if anyone had a gun, they were going to do bad things. What they did was violate peoples 2nd Amemdment right. In some cases, when the people didn’t want to give up their guns, they arrested them. Arrested for standing up for your Consitutionally protected right! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5PC7z79-8
I also believe that the government wants to control everything in our lives. They control us two ways, by taking our guns so we can’t resist and by taxing us. If we don’t like something, they will force it on us. That’s why they don’t want us to have guns. It’s an affront to their power. We could actually resist. The 2nd Amendment exists to allow the citizenry to protect themselves from an oppresive government. That’s the truest reason it exists. Secondarily to that is defense of the person and home.
We need to stand up for our rights. Please, write your Senators and your Representatives. Make sure they know that you do not support any type of gun legislation that restricts or tries to control your 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. I found this video as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4&NR=1 It has some good statistics and quotes some of our forefathers. Those men that came before us knew first hand what an oppresive government could and would do. We should listen to them. The world is no different today than it was back then. We just have more technology. The ideaologies are pretty much the same.
In the days leading up the the presidential election and in the time since Obama has been elected, there has been a serious increase in gun purchases as well as ammo sales. I don’t have any hard numbers to back me up on this, but I do have a personal experience. I went to a local Sportsman’s Warehouse store. Whenever I go there, being someone who likes guns and believes the 2nd Amendment is a RIGHT, not a priveledge, I always walk by the gun counter. This day, I was totally surprised by what I saw. There were hardly any handguns on display. In fact, there was probably well over 50% less handguns maybe as much as 75% less on display than the last time I had been there which was a couple of months before. I was astonished. So much so that I just stood there and stared in awe. I thought to myself, “They must be not going to carry handguns anymore” as I’ve seen other stores take this stand (Walmart and Sports Authority) for fear of being sued if a wack job uses a handgun that was purchased in their store to do harm to someone illegally. I stood there so long, and I must of had a strange look on my face, because one of the salesmen behind the counter who was actually helping a customer interrupted his conversation with that customer to ask me if I was OK. I told him I was fine, but I took the opportunity to ask him if they were not going to carry handguns anymore. His reply? “No, we’re still carrying them. There’s just been a huge run on them.”
I have also been watching the run on ammo and the price increases that have gone along with it. 5.56 Nato ammunition used to be available for about $.35/round. I received an advertisement the other day that was touting military grade 5.56 ammo at $.97/round. Unbelievable!
But this is what happens when people believe that their right to own a firearm or even just ammunition is about to be taken away. We saw the same thing happen when Congress put the assault gun ban in place in the 90s. As there was a time lag between when it was passed and when it went in effect, people went crazy buying guns that were going to be on the banned list. By the way, an assault rifle is a rifle that fires fully automatic. Those are already heavily regulated. The ban that was in place was a ban on assault “looking” rifles. If it looked mean, they banned it.
Is this run on guns and ammo justified? I guess time will tell. What each person needs to do is take heed to what Obama says and make a personal judgement as to whether he can be believed and trusted. He has been saying all along that he won’t take anyone’s guns away. But, by the same token, he has NEVER supported pro-gun legislation and has in fact supported every piece of anti-gun legislation that he’s seen, both at the state and federal level. He’s also loading up his administration with a bunch of anti-gunners. Here’s a good read on it. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479367,00.html
Personally, I bought a bunch of ammo almost a year ago. Anybody want to buy some? I’ll sell it to you cheap.
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