Monday, April 23, 2018

Chipping Away at the Second Amendment

The Democratically controlled New Jersey Assembly under Governor Phil Murphy has passed the following measures to tighten already stringent gun laws.

The state will determine "Justifiable need." Thomas R. Rogers, a New Jersey resident who passed the required background checks, completed required firearm training courses and met every other requirement to be eligible to obtain a permit to carry firearms in public was denied his Second Amendment constitutional right because he could not "Establish a clear and present threat to his safety." This despite the fact that he was robbed at gunpoint many years ago and now services ATMs in high crime areas.

Particularly telling is the fact that it was not Hitler who initiated gun controls.

"African-Americans arguably have the richest tradition of gun-rights advocacy despite being targeted by and resisting local, state and federal gun-control measures since before America's founding." Thus, "[r]estrictions on black ownership of guns and racial conflict in the late 19th and early 20th centuries set the stage for the massacre and destruction of entire black communities.

Clayton E. Cramer in "The Racist Roots of Gun Control" asserts that "The motivations for disarming blacks in the past are really not so different from the motivations for disarming law-abiding citizens today. In the last century, the official rhetoric in support of such laws was that 'they' were too violent, too untrustworthy, to be allowed weapons. Today, the same elitist rhetoric regards law-abiding Americans in the same way, as child-like creatures in need of guidance from the government." Consider the double standard of celebrities and politicians as they surround themselves with several layers of armed security while lecturing Americans about gun control.

More recently, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mark Robinson spoke about the assault on "Law-abiding gun owners." Robinson stated, "I'm the majority. I'm a law-abiding citizen who's never shot anybody, never committed a felony. I've never done anything like that."

In 1993, Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman of the group Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership published a document titled "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny," which highlights the similarities between the Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938 and the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/chipping_away_at_the_second_amendment.html

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