EUREKA-WILDWOOD, MO -- I literally just sat down and started writing and this is what came out! No resources, no outside influence. This is pure, straight up, and from the heart, and it defines my stand on Gun Laws. Please read and pass on.
Forgive me for also adding this thought... The "Left" is going to come after me HARD! I really do need YOUR Help to fight off the vicious campaign they will surely launch against me because I am not kidding when I say "Not one inch will I relent on this issue." Please do what you can, is it $5? Great! Is it $500 or $5,000? Great, I just hope you'll do something! Checks to: Citizens for Nieves, 350 Country Club Bluffs Ln. Washington, Mo. 63090
Now, please read and pass on...
Will we pass a truly Free America on to our Posterity? No, really, I'm serious about that question! I have actual worry in my heart, and a heavy burden for this Great Republic. Why?? Let me explain...
Since the Connecticut Tragedy, I have had people who are typically reasonably minded folks tell me we should allow further restrictions on weapons that are specifically designed to hold lots of rounds or have a military like function. I've had people tell me we should "Give in" just a Little Bit or maybe just compromise a bit concerning gun control. Listen, I'm not saying I've heard this from liberals - No, these comments and suggestions come from folks who are usually reasonable minded citizens! One suggestion was to limit each family or household to ONE or maybe just TWO "Assault Rifles" because there would really never be any reason for any law abiding family to have more than that! After I took seven or eight deep breaths, reminded myself I was talking to someone I love and respect, this is what I said:
I want my neighbors and everyone in my subdivision, city, state, and nation to have and own as many guns as they decide they would like to own! Why? Simple - Our Founding fathers were so very very clear about why they wanted us to have weapons. If we, as a nation, would collectively take a few short minutes, maybe even an hour, to actually research what our Founding Fathers said, in their own words, about gun ownership and gun control, we would see that what we arbitrarily refer to as "Assault Rifles" would fit squarely with what they wanted us to have! Keep in mind they had just escaped tyranny and knew, first hand, what a power hungry government becomes. They knew that unarmed people become "subjects" while people who are free to protect themselves are "Citizens." They knew that government, by it's very nature, will seek more and more power and that government has an insatiable hunger, almost a lust, for more of our money and our liberty! They wanted American Citizens to be free to protect themselves from, God Forbid, a tyrannical government. Am I afraid our government will become full blown tyrants in my lifetime? No, but I do understand the very nature of government and just like our Founding Fathers, I believe it would someday be possible! We must, as a people, guard today what we want tomorrow and therefor we can NEVER allow government to take even one more tiny little baby step in the direction of gun control over our citizens.
You might say, "Brian, that is an OLD Argument that doesn't apply to modern times," and even though I strongly disagree, I'll give you a more "modern" reason to consider....
You may or may not be familiar with the absolute Financial Crisis, no, EMERGENCY, our country is in but I'm acutely aware! We are living in a time where it is possible for the American Dollar to lose its standing as the international medium of exchange. As it stand right now, countries have to buy and sell on the international market using U.S. Dollars - this means when countries buy oil from OPEC Nations, they do it with U.S. Dollars. I will not take the time, in this writing, to explain all the details of how America, as we know it, could literally cease to exist if we lose the coveted position the U.S. Dollar currently holds as the international medium of exchange but let me summarize by saying this... The America you are accustomed to would no longer be in existence and it would be possible, even likely, that we would be weakened to the point of inviting an invading army! If that were to ever happen, and I pray it doesn't, I want an AR-15 in every closet of every house in America!
I know, I know, some of you will say, "Oh Brian, none of what you've written about will ever happen" and I fervently pray that you are right and that 35yrs from now people are literally laughing at this writing! BUT, hoping you are correct does not give me the degree of comfort that an armed citizenry does.
Increased gun control only empowers government and criminals. Gun control laws empower government by making the people weak and empower criminals because they have no regard for what the law says anyway. Gun control laws only disarm the innocent and weaken those who follow the law. I want all of you to know, Friends - Family - Constituents and fellow Citizens... I will NEVER give even one little inch on the subject of gun control and will fight any measure that further restricts our God Given Right to defend ourselves and the 2nd Amendment that ensures that right to American Citizens!
Gun control is NOT about Guns...it's about Control.
_____________________ Is this Barry or Conserv?????
Keep writing these gems Nieves. The push to get reasonable and responsible controls on guns will be helped.
Stonekettle Station has an excellent 5 part series on guns called "Bang-Bang Crazy". Be sure to check it out. Part 5 linked here: http://www.stonekettle.com/2013/01/bang-bang-crazy-part-five.html
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Are you practicing UNSOLICITED legal advice without a License? Are you dispensing UNSOLICITED medical advice without a License? These are very Serious "Crimes" in your de facto world/system. Just keep in mind I stand on The Constitution and Common Law you and your kind, Progressive Liberal FAILURES, stand with King George and the redcoats. BY what you write did George Washington, The Founders, The Minutemen, etc all had "obvious psycholigical problems" ?
The conservatives of the day were those that wanted to stay the course (remain under British rule).
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The meaning of Libertarian of old has nothing to do with The Progressive FAILURES of today. Talk about Erosionists - erodind history and everything that goes with being America. The Constitution is almost Set In Stone, very difficult to change and it was done that way by designm because the founders knew how evil and delusional liberal destrictive minds can get. Want to infringe on the 2nd Amendment there is a way, follow the example of Prohition (which wasn't even really enumerated in the Constituion) BUT it had to still be done by a Constitutional Amendment requiring ratitification by 3/4 of the state legislatures. That is the Law and how it is done, anything is Unconsottituional and PERJURY of OATH of Office. FOWARD? I thought Oblamer was taking the wheel and getting back out of the ditch and backing up to avoid THE CLIFF of DEBT placed on your backs with your APPROVAL making ALL Progressive FAILURES CRIMINALS ACCOMPLICES.
Furthermore, few Americans realize that our founders did not invent a bill of rights. The origins go back to Henry I's Charter of Liberties, before the Magna Carta documents. Many of the ideas we adopted in our Constitution came directly from The Bill of Rights of 1688, one hundred years before the US Constitution was written. Included in that document is, "That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law." Before that, Henry II issued an order requiring free men to own arms. Our founders enshrined the limits on government into the Constitution, something England does not have. The difference between a free man and a slave has often been the gun in the free man's hand.