The great divide continues in America. Some believe that moderation is the way of the twenty-first century. Moderation means giving up freedoms and sacrificing beliefs in order to appear to be a peacemaker, interested in “progressing” toward a more tolerant society, that has proven to be the most intolerant of any time in American history.
If you believe moderation, built on giving away your rights, is the best for you and this country, you’re dead wrong and that’s what might be the result when it comes to our Second Amendment.
The anti-gun rights people criticizes the upholders of the Second Amendment as being too staunch, unwilling to give, to concede things like giving up the right to own guns they don’t see as necessary. They demand that gun rights advocates give in, yet they have no intention of giving anything.
The lines have now been drawn in the sand and we will be witness to the new powers in Congress. Two bills have been presented to committees. HR 1022 is authored by Carolyn McCarthy, which is not a reinstated assault weapons bill that some are being lead to believe. It is essentially a complete weapons banning bill that would eliminate from this country nearly every gun now owned by millions of Americans. The high and mighty democrats believe that they can rewrite the Constitution and declare any gun not used for “sporting” reasons, be outlawed.
HR 1096 is a bill presented by Ron Paul of Texas. The title says it all – “Second Amendment Protection Act of 2007″. HR 1096 will oppose completely HR 1022, giving lawful citizens the right to own the gun of their choice.
John Snyder says it this way in a recent press release.
Even though the powers that be in the U.S. House of Representatives at the present time are not favorably disposed towards the right of self-defense rationale for the right to bear arms, House leaders should realize that tens of millions of law-abiding American gun owners see matters from the same perspective as that contemplated by the Paul bill.
In the last democratically controlled Congress, many bills never made it to the floor for discussion and a vote, even having cleared committee. Leaders were being labeled obstructionists. Will the sitting leadership do the same with these two bills? It will be interesting to watch to say the least and a real test as to how politicians want to line up on this issue heading into a major election year in 2008.
My guess? Both sides will water the bills down and the democrats will win another battle in getting more restrictions put on gun ownership. This is the wrong. The lines need to be clearly defined with each elected official casting a vote one way or the other. After all, this isn’t a vote about gun control. This is a vote on whether our leaders and the people of America any longer believe that the Constitution is worth the paper it is written on.
Tom Remington
