How They Take Away Our Rights

The following poignant article was found at www.gunlawnews.org. This is an excellent clearinghouse site on the state of 2nd Amendment rights in this nation today. The site provides articles from a variety of sources, all intended to inform the citizens of infringements of our firearms rights and the fight to take back our country from the rights-robbers.

This article is entitled, 'How They Take Away Our Rights.'

'The attacks on our Second Amendment rights have been ongoing for decades and represent a multiprong strategy. These attacks have the goal of decreasing gun ownership as a norm for American life leading to ending gun availability.

'The first goal has been worked by:

--demonizing the idea of gun ownership in the eyes of nonowners
--demonizing all gun owners
--restricting hunting
--moving the citizenry to a condition of victimhood
--promoting the police as the only legitimate opposition to crime

'Success on this goal means that fewer and fewer people will fight for their rights as the decades go by.

'The second goal is the end game. It is being attempted through:

--attacks on gun availability, such as the FN-57 bans, .50 caliber bans and the assault weapon bans,
--attacks on gun ownership, such as you see in DC, Chicago, San Francisco and the Huges Amendment, etc.,
--attacks on ammunition ownership - reference Kennedy's 'Armor Piercing Ammo' Bans,
--expanding the group of prohibited persons such as Terrorist Watchlist ban and the Lautenberg Amendment.

'What they did not envision is the success and expansion of concealed carry laws across the country. In one action we:

--got good publicity on the positive aspect of firearm ownership
--divested the movement of just being a 'hunting thing'
--and put the gun rights movement on the offensive.

'The situation in New Orleans only drove home the point that you can't rely on the government for your well being. Help may be days or weeks in coming, even in a large city. Self reliance is the mature response to objective threat analysis.

'So now that S.397, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act has passed, now is the time to continue the fight to roll back decades of Second Amendment infringements. Whether it be the DC gun ban or nationwide ccw reciprocity, we need to move now.

'Remember New Orleans.'