Issue Position: Gun Control

Issue Position

We may have secured a small but temporary victory in the withdrawal of Senator Feinstein's Assault Weapons Ban bill, but she intends to bring it up again as an amendment to other gun control legislation that Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is going forward with. Let's remember she did have a similar bill passed into law before, which was not effective, and died with a sunset clause. The gun control crowd will keep working to push law abiding citizens into a corner. Every tyrannical government, every dictator, always uses emotions and the argument that they are only doing this to protect us, takes the means of resisting tyranny from the citizens just before taking complete control of the government away from the people. We must remember the words of our Founders "…deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,…" The Founders were keenly aware of the importance of keeping the means to resist tyranny in the hands of the people, also known as the Militia. They had just fought a war with the superpower of the day, England, and won, with the Militia, everyday folks like you and me, playing a vital roll. Had the king of England and his agents been successful in disarming our ancestors, there would be no United States of America. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

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