During Thanksgiving week, the Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives held a dramatic session to vote on whether to let the whole House vote on several gun-control measures...
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Well, since they asked...
Go ahead and let them know--especially if you live in PA.
I sent them a modified version of my letter to Rep(tile) Jewell. It is longer than they wanted:
ReplyDelete"Rights do not come from government, but are to be immune from government. Rights can not be limited without being violated. Therefore, government has no authority to restrict guns in any way.
The only "common sense" gun legislation necessary or desirable is to honor the highest law of the land: The Constitution, as it is written, not as socialists would prefer to reinterpret it.
The Second Amendment protects from government infringement two separate rights "of the people" (look up "infringe" if you have difficulty with the word): the right to form a militia, ("well regulated" meant "well practiced" at the time it was written, not "government controlled" as you might prefer to imagine), and the right to own and to carry any type of weapon they desired, wherever they went, in any manner they saw fit, without asking anyone's permission, ever. If you do not accept this right, you are not even a weak "supporter" of the right to keep and bear arms, but a believer in the limited privilege to keep and bear arms at the whim of the government.
Victim disarmament ("gun control" to you) has failed everywhere and every time it has been tried, IF the goal is to reduce crime. If the goal is to reduce the population to a state of slavery and fear, then it is effective. Philadelphia has the most draconian gun "laws" in the state; shouldn't it therefore have the least crime if victim disarmament prevents crime?
Police would not need laws "for their protection" if they were not on the streets and in the neighborhoods violating the rights of peaceful people by enforcing counterfeit "laws" (laws that have no real individual victim). If they were acting honorably they would be rallied behind and protected by the people all around them. Sadly, this is no longer the case in America, and will not be again unless the absolute rights of the people are once again respected by those in government and their enforcers."