Posted on 01/16/2005 7:16:36 AM PST by joesnuffy
Action Alert Right March
Tell Congress to Pass Self-Defense Bill! Help Push Through Pro-Second Amendment Legislation!
ALERT: The new Congress has just started warming their seats filled with more conservatives, and we're already getting the chance to show our unified support for some great legislation -- starting with a bill that strongly supports our Second Amendment rights.
According to CNSNews.com, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) has introduced a bill protecting the right of law-abiding Americans to use guns in self-defense.
HR 47, the "Citizens' Self-Defense Act", would specifically protect the right of law-abiding citizens to use handguns, rifles and shotguns in defending themselves, their families or their homes. It would also allow people whose self-defense rights have been violated by any government entity to bring legal action in federal court.
Remember the news stories over the last couple of years, about husbands and fathers who were arrested after shooting home-invaders, because the *homeowner* possessed a firearm for protecting his family? This bill could put an END to that kind of nonsense.
Let's join together to push through this common-sense legislation NOW!
TAKE ACTION: Tens of millions of patriotic conservatives and law-abiding, gun-owning Americans voted in November.
We love the statement that John Michael Snyder of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) made: "America is ready to really sock it to the anti-gun media, entertainment personalities, and ecclesiastical holier-than-thous, and the political lapdogs who try to work their wretched will."
Hard to argue with that. :-)
HR 47 has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. We must NOT let it get stuck there -- we need to let Congress know that we want SWIFT consideration of this bill! Click "Go!" above to send a message for FREE to your Representative, asking him or her to support HR 47, the "Citizens' Self-Defense Act".
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Thank you!
We already have that law! It is called the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
If Americans are too cowardly to support and demand Constitutional rights ..... you will find just what we have now ... giving up all our GOD-given rights to a bunch of scumbag lawyers and activist judges to LORD over the masses of serfs like they used to back in the UK.
What about congress? Let's see -- they will write another "law" that forces more LAWYERS and ACTIVIST JUDGES to even have more power to decide your fate. Hell of a racket isn;t it?
BTTT
This is a VERY BAD IDEA. Once a precedent is established that such a right (already protected by the Bill of Rights' Second Amendment) can be established by legislation, then it can also be REMOVED by legislation. Far better to put the effort into getting pro-strict-constuctionist judges appointed to the Supreme Court that will recognize the Second Amendment as having already recognized such a right.
Perhaps a better approach is to enact a law that prevents the criminal or his family from suing the shooter, in self-defense cases, from a civil lawsuit.
The way I understand it, in some states, the shooter cannot be sued in civil court if he has been no-billed or found not guilty in criminal court.
How many times have we read when the perp's family ends up getting a big, sometimes ruinous award from the shooter's estate?
"If Americans are too cowardly to support and demand Constitutional right"
Many of us have been supporting and demanding that our rights be recognized for years. The problem is when you have government at all levels ignoring those rights and a corrupt court system.
Your #4, Ditto and well said!
I also hope that nobody promotes this stupid idea of enacting federal concealed carry permit legislation. What Uncle Sam can give he can take away. That's a matter best left to the states. If you don't like your state's policies, you can always move.
Or are you gonna pick up the "incorperation" myth and run with it?
Thanks - but I don't need congress looking over my shoulder when I put a hole in a would be burglar.
Art 4 Sec 2.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
Art 6. Paragraph 2.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
And then there is the 10th Amendment. The 14th was required for EXACTLY the same reason we need the above legislation passed. Ie; the judiciary and legislatures IGNORING our Rights. Goverment malfeasance sapping us of our Freedoms.
Violating the Constitution, and their oaths of Office, should be a capital offense. Same as Treason.
DC, San Francisco, Detroit, NY City......... It'l be interesting to see how these cities would react to this if passed.
It would have one very good implication. It would be possible for Chicago residents to sue that lying bastard, Mayor Daley, for denying them the right to defend themselves.
The statements you have quoted are the reason why I think you can make the case for incorporation prior to the 14th. That said, and I am sorry I don't have the references in front of me, there are quite a number of writings from the founders which go the other way. I was not aware of this line of reasoning myself, until some folks here at FR pointed this out. For my part, the 10th Amendment should be enough in and of itself. That and a $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee at the Supreme Court deli and foodcourt give what current 10th Amendment jurisprudence amounts to. Would that it were otherwise.
The Confederation didn't last long. Without basic protections for fundamental individual Rights, no system really can.
Our Republic was born with the seeds of its own destruction built in. Giving up the States power to elect Senators was the final blow. Everything since then has been a temporary holding action.
We are a full blown Democracy now and will go the way of all other such entities. Our "Rights" are now "privileges" that are taken away by simple majority or by judicial decree. George Bush pounding the pulpit repeating the word "Democracy" doesn't fill me with enthusiasm either...
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