http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/06/harrisburg_chapter_of_naacp_ur.html
Here’s an idea.
Instead of stripping away law-abiding citizens’ rights due to a handful of criminal thugs, you encourage the law-abiding citizens to arm themselves?
Samuel Adams must have known what kind of idiocy we’d be up against eventually, with people saying that “militia” means the army and not the citizens.
Whenever someone gives you that worn-out argument, toss this one at them:
“The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress
to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens
from keeping their own arms.”
–Samuel Adams
As I was browsing over the various legislation introduced in this session of Congress with the term “firearm” in it (42 bills came up in the search results), I came across something that made me say “Hrmm.”
A timeline is in order here.
April 4, 2009: HSA - Rightwing Extremism
The nation is the unintended recipient of a Homeland Security bulletin outlining who the administration views as being suspected of terrorist activity, which you can download and view for yourself above.
April 29, 2009: H.R. 2159: “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009″.
H.R. 2159 is submitted, its stated purpose being “To increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of firearms or explosives licenses to a known or suspected dangerous terrorist.”
So first they define who a “suspected terrorist” is, and then they quietly introduce a bill to deny firearms to those “suspected terrorists”? Where is the presumption of innocence? Where is the Habeus Corpus?
Something to keep an eye on. Add it to your tracker on your GovTrack.us page.
