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Four Words for Gun-Grabbers – ‘Shall NOT Be Infringed’
AmmoLand Gun News
Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- When Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and certain Democrats in the House of Representatives, promise to push for more gun control in January 2013, they overlook four important words: “shall not be infringed.”
These words form an integral phrase in the 2nd Amendment, and speak to our Founders’ intent that the U.S. government not “infringe” on the peoples’ God-given right to keep and bear arms.
Consider the text of the 2nd 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.
As I’ve written in earlier posts, the 2nd Amendment does not create a right nor does it confer one. Rather, it hedges in a right with which we were “endowed by [our] Creator.” When we understand this, it’s easy to see that our Founders put this amendment in place to tell the government that the right to keep and bear arms is sacrosanct.
When Democrats push their gun control schemes in January – if they actually follow through with the gun control schemes they’ve floated during the past week – they must understand that they will be doing exactly what our Founders said they have no power to do. They will be infringing on a right that the Bill of Rights explicitly lists as off limits to inference by the federal government.
This is something the leftists running our academies don’t want us to know, so it’s something that many of us weren’t taught and certainly something that our children don’t hear — even in U.S. history. Therefore, now more than ever, it is a truth that we must recover and one to which we must cling when answering the Democrats’ pending gun-grabbing schemes.
Our Founders recognized the right to keep and bear arms as essential and God-given. Because of this, they hedged in this right by telling the government it “shall not be infringed.”
About:
AWR Hawkins writes for all the BIG sites, for Pajamas Media, for RedCounty.com, for Townhall.com and now AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
His southern drawl is frequently heard discussing his take on current events on radio shows like America’s Morning News, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Ken Pittman Show, and the NRA’s Cam & Company, among others. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (summer 2010), and he holds a PhD in military history from Texas Tech University.
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2012-12-26 08:45:27
Source: http://www.ammoland.com/2012/12/26/four-words-for-gun-grabbers-shall-not-be-infringed/
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they aren’t looking to de-weaponize america friend. all my hunting rifles are as safe as babies.
they’re looking to kill the further sales of over size mags and to limit the sale of one kind of firearm, new assault weapons. so all those extra over sized mags already out there are good to go and so are the ar-15′s, ak’s, m-1′s, tech-9s etc already out in private hands.
odd’s are good they won’t get anything but a restriction on new mag sizes passed anyway. there’s just too many voters in both party’s sitting on firearms to piss off. in the meantime prices have nearly doubled on used 15′s in the last ten days. somebody’s getting rich off a little paranoia.