Do you remember the Obamas' interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, where President Barack and First Lady Michelle joked about the president's second term being a ploy to continue having their young children protected by guns?
In the highly personal interview, the President and first lady discussed their marriage and family life in the White House. When the conversation moved on to the Obama's two daughters, the President joked, "One of the main incentives of running was continued Secret Service protection so we can have men with guns around at all times."
This is the same man who tried to skirt the Constitution by issuing a flurry of gun control executive orders; who appointed an anti-gun zealot as a representative to the U.N. assembly; encouraged doctors to ask their patients about guns in their homes; said federal gun control was necessary because it was government's responsibility to protect innocent Americans from deranged extremists armed with "weapons of war" (that means taking guns away from American citizens who own them, because of course, anyone who does is a "terrorist" and an extremist anti-government zealot); and who told participants of an Internet Q&A session that he felt his biggest frustration as President was his inability to convince Congress to pass stricter gun control legislation.
Because the rules are always for thee, and not for me, according to those in the elected class.
They want you to think citizens don't need, shouldn't have, and weren't ever meant to have any kind of armaments... but it's perfectly fine for them when they feel they need protection.
They don't have a care in the world that the intent of the Founders was for free men to be able to protect themselves, especially from the evils of government. But don't take my word for it. The Militia Acts of 1792 were some of the first bills passed by the First Congress and as Mike Maharrey pointed out correctly, "Every able-bodied free man was part of the militia. You'll also note that the act actually requires all men between the age of 18 and 45 to have military-grade weapons. This kind of undermines the whole, 'the Second Amendment wasn't so you could have an assault rifle' argument."
The Founding Fathers and members of the first Federal government feared a standing army and wanted individual citizens to be armed and ready at all times.
Contrast this with today's gun-grabbers, of whom Obama was just the most prominent example. John Rappaport pointed out, "During the reign of Barack Obama, mass shootings prompted a White House declaration that community mental health centers would be created across America, in order to spot and treat persons before they committed violent acts. ... The Trump administration consider[ed] a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior," so that their guns could be confiscated.
Still at it
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling that is having the effect of nullifying many unconstitutional gun restrictions...
(Rollcall.com reports: "A judge in West Virginia this month cited the Supreme Court case when he struck down a federal law that required guns to have serial numbers. So did a judge in Texas who ruled last month that people under criminal indictments can still possess guns and a judge who this month tossed New York's prohibitions on carrying concealed firearms in Times Square, summer camps, subways and theaters. More than a dozen other challenges to gun control laws are pending in federal courts, which legal experts say could leave holes in efforts to curb gun violence and the use of weapons in crimes.)
...President Biden is continuing his anti-gun rhetoric and his lies about guns in general.
According to Reason.com, Biden said in a recent speech: "'Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun, five times — is lighter — and can pierce Kevlar?' he insisted on August 30 while touting his administration's "Safer America Plan," which includes tighter firearms restrictions.
"Really? Well, no. 'President Biden's statement that a bullet shot from an AR-15 travels 5x faster than a bullet shot out of "any other gun" is false,' Greg Wallace, a Campbell University law professor who focuses on Second Amendment issues, told the Washington Post early in September. As for bullets fired from AR-15s piercing Kevlar, 'that is true of almost all centerfire rifle bullets. Body armor protection against rifle bullets requires steel, ceramic, or composite plates. Biden was clearly wrong in his statement,' Kessler concluded."
The lies are part of a much wider net being cast by the anti-gun crowd. They want you to think owning a gun is a disease. Daniel Webster, a health policy expert and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore, said that disease patterns, observing how a problem spreads, applies to gun ownership, and that gun ownership — a precursor to gun violence — can spread "much like an infectious disease circulates."
In discussing gun ownership as if it were a disease, it follows the trend of many news stories that have appeared after shooting tragedies that portray gun ownership as an oddity at best, at worst, something you need to be cured of, or that goes against God's wishes. I wish I were kidding. Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) once told MSNBC that Republicans on his committee were "...murderers' Row; that's Foxx, Gehrig and Ruth. They all like their guns... I think their guns are next there to their Bibles. I'm not sure which they find more important to them... I think guns trump Bibles on that side of the aisle."
Handguns, not just 'assault weapons' (which are already banned)
During a CNN presidential town hall, the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action points out that "Joe Biden expressed his support for a ban on commonly-owned handguns. Responding to a question about the recent increase in violent crime [he] stated, 'I'm the only guy that ever got passed legislation, when I was a senator, to make sure we eliminated assault weapons. The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it's a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it's a rifle, is ridiculous. I'm continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.' Of course, any semi-automatic firearm capable of accepting a detachable magazine has the "ability to fire" in the manner Biden deemed objectionable. Therefore, the president's statement was a call to ban all semi-automatic handguns, rifles, and shotguns capable of accepting a detachable magazine."
As Ron Paul often pointed out, that cultural Marxists and progressives like Biden and Cohen and their fellow Democrats push for gun control and conveniently "ignore how gun control has been used against African-Americans in the past and how new gun control laws will disproportionately harm racial minorities" whom they purport to protect.
Unfortunately, for 100 years the courts and politicians and the power elite have used laws and propaganda to slowly but steadily erode the 2nd Amendment protections that guarantee the right of self-defense for everyone. Even Supreme Court rulings that seemed to uphold the right to keep and bear arms were designed to erode that right, as we explained regarding the District of Columbia v. Heller ruling written by Justice Antonin Scalia, mistakenly hailed as a gun rights defender by conservatives.
The gun control problem is a mind control problem. The authorities know full well that they, even with all their high-tech weapons, cannot subdue a determined people with private arms. This is why they want your guns. Therefore, they use all manner of spurious persuasion to get you to give up your arms and to exert hostility toward others who won't. Same old divide and conquer.
Nothing is more dangerous to liberty than an unarmed populace. As always, it is why I urge you to purchase a firearm, become trained in its use and maintenance, and practice with it. Here's a list of waiting periods by state before you can take possession of a gun you wish to purchase. If you need a conceal-carry license, go here for one that works in multiple states.
The man or woman who silently keeps arms and learns to effectively use them is the greatest force there is in defense of freedom.
As of now, there are only a few federal politicians with the courage to try and make this illegal, though they have done all possible to impress upon the public mind that private arms possession for any reason is un-American and even sick or terroristic behavior. Their debate is twisted nonsense, but people believe it.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®
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