A Conspiracy to Humiliate Gun Owners

A newspaper in New York state is the latest to join a conspiracy to humiliate gun owners. It seems the anti-gun bigots have taken their fight to ban handguns to the public sector, publishing the names of gun owners.

How do they get the names? They obtain the names from government gun registration information, which is a matter of 'public record.'

Many things are a matter of public record in a free society. But does this mandate that they be published? For example, it is also a matter of public record if you own real property for your full address, legal description of your property, and plot and parcel to be recorded in courthouse records in the county of your residence. Should this be published as well?

No rational person actually believes that all information that is kept on private citizens by the government should be made public, in spite of the fact that it is known as 'part of the public record.' Yet this is precisely the argument that some left-leaning newspapers and websites make when defending their practice of publishing the names of gun owners.

Such an act is supposedly designed to humiliate and shame citizens regarding the private ownership of firearms. New York state's stringent gun control laws are well-known throughout the nation. Apparently those laws are not enough. Stung by the failure of such laws to rob the citizens of their Constitutional right to own and carry firearms, the social engineers of the rights-robbing collectivists now seek to use the force of public, communal shame and humiliation to place a guilt-trip on citizens who are registered gun owners.

If such media entities persist in this clear attempt to thwart individual Constitutional rights by publishing the names, then those of us on the other side of the issue can follow suit. In fact, we can declare open season on ANY matter of public record, including publishing the complete information on the legal descriptions and locations of the addresses of editors of newspapers who insist on this dastardly practice.

How does that grab you?

Don't mess with us. There are 100 million or more gun owners in the United States. We have no intention of letting leftists and their advocates such as Democrats John Conyers, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, and BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA take away our second amendment rights!

Not only are we poised to fight, but we can also go underground if we must. In fact, there is a move among some gun owners not only to refuse registration but to purchase only those weapons that cannot be traced, that is, weapons without serial numbers.

Is this what the leftists want?

Let me be very blunt and very clear. Adolf Hitler was ELECTED by the people of Germany. The Nazi regime was not forced on them but was an example of what Thomas Jefferson referred to as 'elective despotism.' Free people sometimes vote their rights away. This is what happened in Germany.

This is a lesson to us all. Germany had implemented a program of gun registration before the Nazis were elected. When the Nazis came to power they merely used the information that was already gathered previously to confiscate weapons from the citizens.

In other words, registration was only a precursor to confiscation.

Only Nazis and a few others deemed to be 'safe' were allowed to have firearms.

One can only wonder what would have happened if the Jews had been armed. Suppose the Gestapo had been met with a hoard of Jewish gun owners who opened fire on the jackbooted thugs when they came to haul them off to death camps. Suppose every other private citizen who had been deemed 'sub-human' had been armed. Perhaps WWII would have never happened. At the very least the world would have been spared the Holocaust.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that those who are part of the gun control movement are the modern political and social descendents of the Nazis.

Under the guise of 'making the streets safer' these opponents of personal liberties wish to rob the citizens of weapons so that they can then implement whatever program of government expansion and intrusion they wish. This is not about making the streets safer. 99% of gun owners DO NOT COMMIT CRIMES.

The notion that the majority of free citizens must be punished for the actions of a tiny minority is nothing less than tyranny and despotism.

We who value our Constitutional rights MUST let our voices be heard and stop this mad march toward totalitarianism. When an editor decides to publish the names of gun owners, complain to high heaven. Make phone calls to the newspaper and protest. Write letters to the editor. If that doesn't make a difference, then we should take steps to publish information on these editors that are also 'part of the public record.'

And then, of course, we MUST elect persons to office who are on record as supporting ALL of our rights in the BILL OF RIGHTS...including 2nd AMENDMENT rights. Anything less is totally unacceptable.

As for those who have already been elected who support gun control, we need to watch every single move they make in Congress. For us to go to sleep at the wheel will only give them opportunity to do their dirty work while we are not looking. And each time they even as much as HINT that they wish to continue to dismantle our rights, we need so scream bloody murder until they are stopped.

The following is a MUST READ (also part of the PUBLIC RECORD):

'Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms when they 'lawfully' took over in March 1933. The Nazis used these inherited registration lists to seize privately held firearms from persons who were not "reliable." Knowing exactly who owned which firearms, the Nazis had only to revoke the annual ownership permits or decline to renew them.

'The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 replaced a Law on Firearms and Ammunition of April 13, 1928. The 1928 law was enacted by a center-right, freely elected German government that wanted to curb "gang activity," violent street fights between Nazi party and Communist party thugs. All firearm owners and their firearms had to be registered. Sound familiar? "Gun control" did not save democracy in Germany. It helped to make sure that the toughest criminals, the Nazis, prevailed.

'In 1938, five years after taking power, the Nazis enhanced the 1928 law. The Nazi Weapons Law introduced handgun control. Firearms ownership was restricted to Nazi party members and other "reliable" people.

'This law gave Hitler's Nazi party a stranglehold on the German people, many of whom did not support the Nazis. The Nazis did not invent "gun control" in Germany. The Nazis inherited gun control and then perfected it: they invented handgun control.

'Given the parallels between the Nazi Weapons Law and the US Gun Control Act of 1968 (the Democrats controlled Congress and the Presidency), it is concluded that the framers of the GCA '68 -- lacking any basis in American law to sharply cut back the civil rights of law abiding Americans -- drew on the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938.'

My fellow citizens who value liberty, what are you going to do about this trashing of the U.S. Constitution?