Assault on the Second Amendment

A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. - The Bill of Rights

By Vic Bilson
Jeremiah Project

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
- Thomas Jefferson

“The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms,”
- Samuel Adams, debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87.

The socialist solution to the so-called “gun problem” is the incremental implementation of legislation, which will increasingly restrict the ownership of arms until which time they are positioned to replace 20,000 federal, state and local gun laws with one law — no guns, except perhaps those narrowly defined for sporting purposes.

"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step.
The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
- Janet Reno

Of course, their unspoken motive is to disarm the people, rendering them of necessity at the mercy of the standing army and increasingly, the police state.

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)

"Gun control has cleared the way for seven major genocides since 1915,
in which governments gone bad murdered 56,000,000 persons, including millions of children."
- Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

To justify the outlawing of guns and other personal weapons, socialist power seekers and other liberal groups have used the excuse that such a law would decrease the crime wave. They do this by convincing citizens that the right to bear arms is too dangerous. Thereby, taking away the right to defend yourself and your friends and your families.

President Clinton said following the defeat of gun legislation in Congress, "It was a great victory for the NRA, but it was a great defeat for the safety of our children. So one more time the Congress of the United States, with the majority in the lead, says we don't care what's necessary to protect our children."

What became commonplace for the Clinton Whitehouse - using children as pawns in the socialist powerplay to strip Americans of their constitutional rights - Mr. Clinton attempted to pull at our emotional strings (for the children) as if somehow gun regulation would protect children.

Handgun Control, Inc., claimed, “Everyday we lose 13 children to gun violence in this country. ... This debate is not about guns. It’s about children.”

WRONG! The fact is, 85% of the “children” we lose to “gun violence” are aged 15 to 19, and drawn from the ranks of the socially disenfranchised and gang-bangers.

The debate is not about children. It's about control.

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzanbaum, The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ...
Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.”
- V.I. Lenin

“If the opposition disarms, well and good.
If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
- Joseph Stalin

THE HEAVY HAND OF GOVERNMENT
Once again, private industry falls victim to the heavy hand of government. Facing lawsuits from some 30 state, city and local governments, the nations top gun manufacturer has been coerced into changing its business practices.

Following the success of government persuasion tactics with the Tobacco industry, Socialists in this country have scored another victory in their incremental dismantling of the United States Constitution with their intrusion into private business. Feeling the economic pressure of a lawsuit happy government, Smith & Wesson agreed to include child safety locks, ensure background checks both at retail stores and gun shows, and to take so-called ballistic fingerprints of its guns. The gunmaker said, in a statement that the agreement reached with the federal government would ensure "the viability of Smith & Wesson as an ongoing business entity in the face of the crippling cost of litigation." [CNN.com, Mar. 17, 2000]

Socialist gun control proponents have used the legal tactic to attack American industry in the guise of "children's safety." In truth, children's safety has nothing to do with their real agenda. Disarming law abiding American citizens and slowly dismantling the United States Constitution is their ultimate aim.

Smith & Wesson should take a cue from the recent tobacco settlements. As we have seen in the months following the agreement between the state Attorneys General and the tobacco companies, it has been shown that once government gets the taste of money or power in their teeth, previous agreements are ignored and greed sets into motion events that were never anticipated.

Liberals brag about how many criminals and other miscreants the Brady law stopped from buying a gun. Bill Clinton claimed that over 60,000 people with criminal records were prevented from buying guns.

Most crimes are committed with unregistered and/or stolen weapons. The Brady law didn't stop Buford Oneal Furrow, for example, who was not carrying legal guns in his shooting rampage in the Jewish center in Los Angeles.

Outlawing of arms will only increase crime. The Brady bill is just an inconvenience, the cost of a criminal doing business. The weapons would become more readily and easily available and attainable upon the black market.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
-Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria.

I've heard it said somewhere, "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws would have guns." If the situation were reversed and everyone was required by law to own and carry a gun, then crime would decrease because all the criminals would know that everyone has a gun, not just them. Liberal gun control advocates don't like to mention the 2 - 2.5 million cases each year where gun owners prevented bodily harm to them, their family and friends because they were armed.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Ben Franklin

The real agenda behind the gun control movement is not "safety" or "children," but can be found in the goals of the socialist New World Order. In order to have a New World Order and have only one military, the militaries of all nations must be dissolved and the peoples of the world not be permitted to have weapons of any kind. If people have weapons or they can obtain weapons, then they can resist the New World Order, which would be completely unacceptable to those in power.

Recently a member of the United Nations stood before the U.S. Congress and proposed a bill revoking the second amendment to the Constitution. When he talked about the nullification of this amendment, he also talked about a global military controlled completely by the United Nations. If this amendment were nullified, all the homes in the United States would be searched and all weapons seized for the government. No one would be permitted to have anything that was designated as a weapon. As a bonus, he pointed out the United States would no longer be required to have a military. This is not the first time that this kind of bill has been presented to Congress. Fortunately, the bill was killed; but you can count on something like this being presented again.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson, proposed Virginia constitution, June 1776. 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C. J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8.

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States."
- Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the federal Constitution (1787) in Pamphlets to the Constitution of the United States (P. Ford, 1888).

"(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
-James Madison.

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
- George Mason

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.
- Patrick Henry.