BluesStringer
Regular Member
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GOA Alert-- December 20, 2007
Please read the above link before reading my comments below.
Read it and weep brothers & sisters. And if you're a vet who has ever visited a psychiatrist's office for any reason, related to combat-induced problems or not, better find a secluded place in the woods to bury your guns and ammo, because this law has the potential to set in motion your forced disarmament.
I have always refrained from criticizing the NRA, even when I disagreed with them, because I believed the good they did far outweighed the bad. But I cannot refrain on this one. They blew it. And worse yet, they betrayed the very people that have supported them (and us) with everything from money to activism to, literally, their blood and their lives; our veterans. A sacred trust has been broken, the result of which should be scorn directed at the NRA by every American who cherishes freedom. They have earned mine, and believe me, they really had to go out of their way to do it. They had to betray their charter, their creed, their membership, The Constitution, and they had to betray me personally as a veteran and as an American Citizen. I believe that, with their support for this unamerican legislation, they have signed their own death warrant as a viable and/or influential PAC, which is just as bad for us as it is for the organization. No one won except for the uber-leftist gun-grabbers, who are now joined, for all intents and purposes, by the scoundrels who currently manage and direct the NRA. May they rot in Hell.
We have one last hope of defeating this legislation without embarking in years of court battles. We must, en mass, write/phone/email President Bush's office to remind him of his obligation to The Constitution, and demand a veto of this horrendous betrayal of the public trust. You can email here: president@whitehouse.gov or you can go here and click on the "Send Message" button right under Bush's picture and compose and send your letter from right there on GOA's website. I'm sure many of you have other good ideas for imploring the President to veto this bill, so post 'em up and let's join together to protect ourselves from this run amok federal government!
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Here is my recent letter to the President:
Dear Mr. President,
I write to implore you to veto HR 2640, NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007. This legislation has the effect of denying by statute the unalienable 2nd Amendment rights of all citizens, with the main target of the law being combat veterans, the very people who fought/fight to defend and uphold said unalienable rights. This legislative assault on our revered Constitution has passed both the House and Senate, and only you, Mr. President, can stop this bill from becoming law, and I respectfully submit that it is your sworn duty to do just that.
This bill has myriad constitutional problems including, but certainly not limited to, potentially disarming the most deserved class in our society; our veterans, denial of constitutional guarantees of due process and the empowerment of non-law enforcement and non-judiciary entities to decide autonomously when a citizen can or cannot exercise his God-given, constitutionally-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. And this empowerment of doctors and lawyers comes with no requirement of full disclosure of their potential (and probable) anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment personal agendas. In fact, a doctor could just as easily rationalize the forced disarmament of a veteran being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on his or her STATED opposition to private gun ownership, and nothing in the bill would automatically prevent the government from disarming that veteran on those grounds. No judges. No wrong-doing on the part of the targeted veteran. No indictments and no juries, yet, according to this bill, if you sign it into law, you and the Congress will have substituted your own judgment for that of the framers of The Constitution as regards private gun ownership, private property rights, privacy rights and due process rights. You CANNOT allow this to happen!
I look forward to news reports of your rebuke of this draconian legislation, and the Congress that authored and passed it, in the strongest possible terms you can muster in the coming days.
Respectfully,
Blues (Real Name & Address) Stringer
Madison, AL
GOA Alert-- December 20, 2007
Please read the above link before reading my comments below.
Read it and weep brothers & sisters. And if you're a vet who has ever visited a psychiatrist's office for any reason, related to combat-induced problems or not, better find a secluded place in the woods to bury your guns and ammo, because this law has the potential to set in motion your forced disarmament.
I have always refrained from criticizing the NRA, even when I disagreed with them, because I believed the good they did far outweighed the bad. But I cannot refrain on this one. They blew it. And worse yet, they betrayed the very people that have supported them (and us) with everything from money to activism to, literally, their blood and their lives; our veterans. A sacred trust has been broken, the result of which should be scorn directed at the NRA by every American who cherishes freedom. They have earned mine, and believe me, they really had to go out of their way to do it. They had to betray their charter, their creed, their membership, The Constitution, and they had to betray me personally as a veteran and as an American Citizen. I believe that, with their support for this unamerican legislation, they have signed their own death warrant as a viable and/or influential PAC, which is just as bad for us as it is for the organization. No one won except for the uber-leftist gun-grabbers, who are now joined, for all intents and purposes, by the scoundrels who currently manage and direct the NRA. May they rot in Hell.
We have one last hope of defeating this legislation without embarking in years of court battles. We must, en mass, write/phone/email President Bush's office to remind him of his obligation to The Constitution, and demand a veto of this horrendous betrayal of the public trust. You can email here: president@whitehouse.gov or you can go here and click on the "Send Message" button right under Bush's picture and compose and send your letter from right there on GOA's website. I'm sure many of you have other good ideas for imploring the President to veto this bill, so post 'em up and let's join together to protect ourselves from this run amok federal government!
**************************************************************************************************
Here is my recent letter to the President:
Dear Mr. President,
I write to implore you to veto HR 2640, NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007. This legislation has the effect of denying by statute the unalienable 2nd Amendment rights of all citizens, with the main target of the law being combat veterans, the very people who fought/fight to defend and uphold said unalienable rights. This legislative assault on our revered Constitution has passed both the House and Senate, and only you, Mr. President, can stop this bill from becoming law, and I respectfully submit that it is your sworn duty to do just that.
This bill has myriad constitutional problems including, but certainly not limited to, potentially disarming the most deserved class in our society; our veterans, denial of constitutional guarantees of due process and the empowerment of non-law enforcement and non-judiciary entities to decide autonomously when a citizen can or cannot exercise his God-given, constitutionally-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. And this empowerment of doctors and lawyers comes with no requirement of full disclosure of their potential (and probable) anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment personal agendas. In fact, a doctor could just as easily rationalize the forced disarmament of a veteran being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on his or her STATED opposition to private gun ownership, and nothing in the bill would automatically prevent the government from disarming that veteran on those grounds. No judges. No wrong-doing on the part of the targeted veteran. No indictments and no juries, yet, according to this bill, if you sign it into law, you and the Congress will have substituted your own judgment for that of the framers of The Constitution as regards private gun ownership, private property rights, privacy rights and due process rights. You CANNOT allow this to happen!
I look forward to news reports of your rebuke of this draconian legislation, and the Congress that authored and passed it, in the strongest possible terms you can muster in the coming days.
Respectfully,
Blues (Real Name & Address) Stringer
Madison, AL