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More comments on H.R. 45
February 19, 2009 | Tagged anti-gun Liberals, H.R. 1022, H.R. 45, Handgun ban, semi-auto ban | Leave a Comment
While we want to face what seems to be a growing wave of anti-individual rights legislation during the new administration with determination and resolve, I believe we want to temper our rhetoric with measured discourse and sober realization. Right now, we want to resist any attempt to infringe upon our right to armed self-defense from crime, tyranny, and genocide with all the political means at our disposal.
Write your legislators. Testify at hearings. Join pro-Second Amendment Organizations. Join major political parties and become precinct leaders and district captains. Campaign for electable pro-gun rights candidates. (The next election cycle has started. Emily’s List is already working to promote Democrat victories in the 2010 mid-term elections. Think redistricting! Think Gerrymandering to create “safe” Democrat districts for the next ten years! If you don’t know what that means, be very afraid!)
Read the text of H.R. 45 and last session’s H.R. 1022 on the website for the U.S. Congress to get an idea about what we are facing with regard to handgun and semi-automatic firearms registration and a probable semi-auto ban.
Talk to your friends and neighbors about the need to protect the Bill of Rights. (See my post: “Comments on H.R. 45 revisited,” 02-03-09, under the Category: “Legislation.”
We have to be careful in our public discourse that we do not feed into the stereotypes perpetrated by the Left against gun owners and lovers of individual liberty. Ninty-nine percent of us are not “wing nuts, ” “whack jobs,” “men who lie to their wives about what they do on weekends.” “We are not “Bambi killers,” “one-toothed rednecks,” “or kill-crazed militia wild men.”
Let us take the defense of our natural rights one careful step at a time. Right now, we have about 80,000,000 gun owners in this country. As has been pointed out, if we all stand up and make our voices heard, we can preserve our rights and our way of life.
We must also be very careful about our sources of information and our quotations. Double check your sources! As far as I have been able to determine, the “Liberty Teeth” quote from George Washington is bogus, as is the quote from Hitler recently mentioned in Comments, which ends, “…and the world will follow our lead into the future.”
The “Liberty Teeth” quote from Washington is obviously questionable, because he “mentions” “prairie wagons,” which were not a means of transportation in Colonial America. No one has been able to find the text of Hitler’s “…follow our lead speech.” If anyone can give me a solid citation on either of these, I will change my mind, but until that happens, I will not use either one.
Again, let us fight our political battles with relentless, sober resolve and determination and avoid language that may give our equally relentless political enemies an excuse for oppression or a legitimate argument that we are making up quotations. We do not have to fabricate research data to make our case. We just have to get the facts out to other gun owners and a public that have been numbed by the constant nattering of a biased Mainstream Media and a well-funded international movement to disarm the American People.
What terrible things do the Liberals plan that makes them fear armed resistance to their schemes?
Def Mech
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