By Javier Manjarres
President Obama’s issuance of 23 mostly frivolous Executive Orders supposedly intentioned to curb gun violence after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has prompted many members of Congress to take a closer look at the substance these orders that many claim to be an encroachment on the Second Amendment.
Congressman Ted Yoho of Central Florida is echoing the sentiments of an increasing number of Americans by stating that the “2nd amendment is the birthright of this country” and that “its part of the benefit of being American.”
During a recent visit to his congressional district, Yoho was told by his constituents not to “give in on anything on gun control.” These same constituents explained to Yoho that the 2nd amendment’s original intent was to ensure that citizens and militia were on an even playing field with the military “to protect them against the tyrannical government”-
The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. I think its more important today than ever, that we uphold our second amendment. – Congressman Ted Yoho
Yoho followed that up by adding that “its more important today that we uphold our second amendment,” and that focusing on the gun owner or the “person in the household that has guns, that may be of questionable stability,” should be the focus in any gun violence curbing inquiry or initiative.
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The whole thing is pathetic and nothing more than our government slowly overpowering us over our Constitutional gun rights (lies and brain washing us)! Ask yourself one simple questions; how much of these proposed executive regulation addresses the criminals and their acts of gun violence? From what I’ve seen and heard, it ALL attacks the innocent gun owners and NOT the crime!
Al of this will only tie the hands of the innocent, responsible gun owners while it empowers the criminal. Did you notice any new regulations increasing the punishment for criminals that use weapons when commiting a crime? I didn’t but there sure are alot of crap the innocent will have to do while the criminal continue to go free after serving 1 to 2 yrs of a 10yrs sentence. IT IS ALL BULLCRAP PEOPLE!!
Three cheers for Congressman Ted Yoho. He understands the importance of the Second Amendment.
Remember when that colored boy tried to enter school, and the militia, I mean National Guard had his back. The 2nd Amendment worked well there.
And the Black Panthers had eyes-on sniper positions all around Selma that day to back up the National Guard order to integrate.
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The Second Amendment does not provide a firearms “birthright.” As historian Garry Wills wrote in 1995:
“The recent effort to find a new meaning for the Second Amendment comes from the failure of appeals to other sources as a warrant for the omnipresence of guns of all types in private hands. Easy access to all these guns is hard to justify in pragmatic terms, as a matter of social policy…That is why the gun advocates appeal, above pragmatism and common sense, to a supposed sacred right enshrined in a document Americans revere…We must put up with our world-record rates of homicide, suicide, and accidental shootings because, whether we like it or not, the Constitution tells us to. Well, it doesn’t.”
Professor Robert J. Spitzer discovered in the course of his research for the “2000 Symposium on the Second Amendment” that from the time U.S. law review articles first began to be indexed in 1887 until 1960, all law review articles dealing with the Second Amendment endorsed the collective right model. The first law review article asserting an individual’s right to own firearms for self-defense (or sport) did not even appear until 1960. Eleven articles discussing the Second Amendment were published during this seventy-three-year period. All endorsed the collective right model.
The first law review article asserting an individual’s right to own firearms for self-defense (or sport) did not appear in the United States until 1960.
It is crucial to understand the word “militia” meant at the time the Second Amendment was written. It is crucial to understand that “militia” as defined in the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8.
That Americans want to believe about the Second Amendment does not make it true. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said: “Repetition can’t transform a lie into the truth.”
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/01/21/the-second-amendments-history/
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