Second Amendment Mullings
Whilst America suffers economically under the heavy boot of statism, other nefarious goings-on continue apace:
As sure as a leftist tax hike, anti-gun nuts across the land are whining for more firearms bans because of Fort Hood. In the American heartland, a city uses its political might and tax money to force a citizen and his family to remain unarmed and defenseless. In Gotham, loony billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg attempts to further strangle the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms.
But even these obsessed anti-gun psychotics know they can't coerce the Democrat Congress to reconsider implementing their repressive gun control laws at this time (65 House Democrats oppose additional anti-gun legislation).
What to do? Why, get Obama involved, because they know he is a fellow traveler.
Ft. Hood and the Islamic terrorist
Nidal Hasan, a Muslim major in the U.S. Army, committed mass murder and treason in the name of his religion. Thirteen Americans died and 30 others were wounded after Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and began his butchery.
Hasan was clearly a fanatic terrorist bent on murdering as many unbelievers in the name of Allah as possible before being stopped. And yet, predictably, the same groups that have been zealously attempting to abolish the Constitution's Second Amendment are attempting to use the Fort Hood incident to further their anti-freedom goals.
These include the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Violence Policy Center, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Freedom States Alliance, Legal Community Against Violence, States United to Prevent Gun Violence, and at least two dozen other anti-Second Amendment organizations.
They immediately sent correspondence to stalwart ally Obama seeking an immediate ban on the importation of the FN Herstal Five-seveN pistol Hasan used to carry out his Jihad.
"What's the BFD, it's just one gun?" some of you lovable but denser readers may ask. The big effing deal is this:
These statists are urging Obama, via executive authority, to ban the import of the Five-SeveN using Fort Hood as an excuse. This will set a precedent for banning other foreign -- and then domestic -- firearms, one at a time. Lei capisce? Stay tuned.
NRA files brief in McDonald v. Chicago
When the Supreme Court struck down Washington D.C.'s gun ban last June in the now famous Heller v. District of Columbia decision, groups such as the Illinois Rifle Association (IRA) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) vowed to file suits to overturn the ban in Chicago as well.
Because of Heller, Chicago citizen Otis McDonald, a 76 year-old retiree, decided to challenge Chicago's 27-year-old handgun ban and restrictive gun laws. However, the 7th Court of Appeals refused to overturn the Chicago ban after hearing McDonald's case, claiming the Supreme Court had not explicitly applied the Heller ruling to cities and municipalities outside of D.C.
In other words, that court ruled that gun rights are fine on federal property, but the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States does not apply to states or municipalities. Say what? Then NONE of the Constitution's Amendments apply to states or municipalities.
This was too much for the National Rifle Association. On November 16, the NRA filed its brief with the U.S. Supreme Court as Respondent in Support of Petitioner in McDonald v. City of Chicago. The NRA brief asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Fourteenth Amendment.
In September, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the McDonald case, on appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. That court incorrectly claimed that prior Supreme Court precedent prevented it from holding in favor of incorporation of the Second Amendment.
This week, in a blow to anti-gun nuts, an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of members of the U.S. House and Senate have signed an amicus curiae, or "friend of the court" brief supporting the NRA's position that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. The brief is supported by 251 Members of Congress and 58 Senators.
The Supreme Court will hear the McDonald case in February 2010. Stay tuned.
Bloomberg wants more gun control
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has alleged that the multiple murders that took place on Ft. Hood recently could have been prevented by changes in federal gun laws, specifically the Tiahrt Amendments.
The Tiahrt Amendments were passed to protect the identities, residences, and livelihoods of law-abiding American gun owners from anti-gun nuts, anti-freedom groups, and government harassment. Their provisions restrict cities, states, and law enforcement from fully accessing and disseminating Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF/E) gun trace data.
Bloomberg and his group, who never met a freedom they liked or a Constitution they respected, placed an ad in the Washington Post on November 26 claiming that the Ft. Hood murder suspect's "gun purchase could have been key to the FBI's investigation into his association with terrorists."
First of all, to label Hasan a "murder suspect" denigrates murder suspects everywhere -- Hasan is an Islamic terrorist butcher. Secondly, no data taken from the BATF/E database would have helped anyone suspect that a U.S. Army Major was in fact a murdering Jihadi. Third, it turns out that the FBI, the Army, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force were already investigating Hasan as a terrorist in October.
As the NRA correctly noted, you would think that someone who can spend $200 million of his own money to get elected mayor of New York City three times could afford copies of the U.S. Code and the Constitution. Not only does federal law stipulate the specific grounds for denying a person the right to arms, the Fourteenth Amendment states that no one shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law.
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