The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 3-11-2015

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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 3-11-2015
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The Left's Latest 2A Assault: Ban Ammo
Incremental Infringement of the Second Amendment

By Mark Alexander

Mar. 11, 2015

“The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone. … The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition.” –James Madison (1788.)

I know you’re shocked – SHOCKED – to learn that Democrats have been caught chipping away at the Second Amendment1 again, now one round at a time. If nothing else, they are persistent.

In 2008, a “nobody from nowhere” presidential candidate2 who had mastered the art of the “BIG Lie3” mesmerized an audience with his faux provincial twang4, insisting, “I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”

Again, in 2011, attempting to defend his lawless Fast and Furious5 gun control charade, Barack Obama asserted correctly6, “The president of the United States is bound by our Constitution,” a constraint7 he completely disregards. He then repeated his “I believe” declaration: “I believe in the Second Amendment. It does provide for Americans the right to bear arms for protection, for their safety, for hunting, for a wide range of uses.”

“A wide range of uses” indeed. First and foremost among them is to defend the endowment of Liberty8, or, as the Founders put it, “the security of a free state.”

For the record, it is irrelevant whether Obama “believes in the Second Amendment” or not. What is relevant is that constitutional Rule of Law9 supersedes the lawless rule of men10 advocated by this president and his Leftist cadres11.

James Madison aptly summed up the real reason Americans, and all people, should be armed: “The advantage of being armed … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition.” Thus, disarming Americans and removing that barrier has been the highest ambition of the statist leaders of the Democratic Party12 for the last three decades.

Disarmament by incremental encroachment is the modus operandi of Obama and his criminal co-conspirator, Eric Holder13, who recently lamented, “The single failure that I point to in my time as attorney general is that I was not able to … convince Congress to really follow the will of the American people – which was to enact meaningful, reasonable gun-safety measures.” In other words, Liberty was preserved, despite Holder’s best efforts.

In fact, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) unwittingly affirmed the motive for the Left’s assault on weapons. Laughably implying that the Second Amendment is about protecting the right to hunt14, Murphy said he hasn’t met “a single hunter or a single person who hunts for sport” who needs more than 10 rounds in a weapon. Instead, he believes those who want more than 10 rounds are “arming against the government.”

As discomforting as this thought might be for many Americans, they all owe a debt of gratitude to gun owners, who understand that it is not only our constitutional right but our duty to stand prepared to defend Liberty over tyranny.

As James Madison’s appointee, Justice Joseph Story, wrote, “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers.” Leftists would rather you not have that “strong moral check” against their relentless assault on the Liberties enshrined in our Constitution.

While Obama and his fellow Democrats controlled both the House and Senate until the House-cleaning of 201015, they didn’t manage to pass any substantive legislation that infringed upon the 2A “right to keep and bear arms.”

But that midterm “shellacking” was a mere bump in the road for Obama.

Frustrated by their inability to override the Second Amendment legislatively, in September of 2013 Obama and his left-hand man, John Kerry16, decided to turn to “super-authorities” who they believe have superior authority to our Constitution. They signed the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty, ostensibly regulating small arms trade between nations, but which could be clearly construed to infringe upon rights within a nation’s borders. At the signing ceremony, Kerry claimed, “Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans, the rights of American citizens to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our Constitution. This is about keeping Americans safe and keeping America strong. This treaty will not diminish anyone’s freedom.”

Note that Kerry did not specify what rights. Make no mistake, fellow Patriots: The UN’s Arms Trade Treaty is a Trojan Horse.

Obama’s last legislative shot at constricting 2A rights ended with another shellacking in the 2014 midterm Republican Wave17 that washed away his Senate majority.

Still, Obama has 700 days to use his phone and his pen, and hordes of Leftist administrators at the helm of federal bureaucracies stand ready to do his bidding.

Obama’s latest subterfuge in the name of “sensible gun control policy18” is to control “gun violence19.” Thus, he has ordered his administrators at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ban a common cartridge type20 popular with shooters of AR-15s, the firearm Obama and Holder would most like to ban.

Since they can’t ban the rifle itself, they’re attempting to ban the ammunition by outlawing its 5.56mm M855 “green tip” cartridge.