Teeth of the Constitution

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

The Second Amendment is arguably the most important: it is the "teeth" of our Constitution.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin, United States
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  • Monday, July 18, 2005

    Calls to Wisconsin's Senators

    Today I decided to call both Feingold's and Kohl's offices with my comments on 4 issues of importance to me:

    1. Repeal the Washington D.C. Gun Ban

    This bill is currently in the House of Representatives (H.R. 1288 District of Columbia Personal Protection Act), where I am confident it will pass. It is about time the citizens of D.C. are allowed to protect themselves and regain their Constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.

    I asked them both to support this bill when it reaches the Senate.

    2. Co-sign Senator David Vitter 's (R-LA) bill to keep any "small arms control" the UN passes out of the US

    It will be interesting to see how many co-sponsors this bill gets from the 100 Senators who swore to uphold the US Constitution. If I were a betting man, I'd say that a six-pack says neither Kohl, nor Feingold (who ran as pro-gun in the last election) will co-sponsor nor vote in favor of this bill. We'll see. I hope I'm wrong as this is a much needed bill (just as Bolton is needed as the US rep in the UN).

    3. 527's - leave them alone and quit taking away my First Amendment rights

    Not a lot to be said here, Feingold is at it again trying to silence the general population under the ruse that there is corruption in exercising our First Amendment rights. Sigh...

    4. The only nominees to the Supreme Court that should be blocked are those that are not originalists

    See, the point is that the only kind of justices we need on the Supreme court are those that will use the framer's original intent, as it is written, in forming their opinions on each case.

    I tried to impress upon the office clerks that it is the people who change the Constitution, and it is the Justices that use what "we" wrote for the basis of their opinions.

    Once again, except this time at Kohl's Washington office, the girl tried to tell me that the Senator is only against those nominees that go against the "mainstream", or that are "too far right or left in the political spectrum". I tried to explain to her that neither the mainstream (whatever that is), nor political orientation (Left or Right) should have anything to do with the qualifications of a Justice! All that needs be looked at is if the nominee, in past opinions, interpreted the Constitution as it is written, with the original intent of the Framers in mind.

    I don't think I got very far in getting this point across.

    Ah well. I tried.

    Sunday, July 17, 2005

    Senate Bill S271 - another one to stop, and H.R. 689 - light at the end of the tunnel

    McCain-Feingold are now at it again attacking our First Amendment rights, this time by trying to silence the public by basically shutting down 527s.

    527s were used widely in the last election as a way around the unconstitutional MaCain-Feingold "incumbent protection" law that astonishingly was upheld by the Supreme Court.

    Call your Senators and ask them to stop this anti-free speech bill in its tracks.

    On a more positive note, there is House Bill H.R. 689 introduced by Congressman Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland. This bill would repeal the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Law, and restore our rights to talk about incumbents before an election.

    Write or call your Congressman to sign-on to this bill.

    Bill Proposed in Senate to Keep the UN from Destroying our Second Amendment

    Gun Owners of America reports that Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced a bill that would block the UN from implementing gun control measures in the US. In addition, it would reportedly prohibit any U.S. funding to the UN unless the President certifies that the world body "has not taken action to restrict, attempt to restrict or otherwise adversely infringe upon the rights of individuals in the United States to possess a firearm or ammunition"."

    Apparently this bill is still in a draft stage, and I haven't seen the entire text, just what the GOA reports in the link above.

    Nonetheless, given that all Senators take an oath to uphold our Constitution, I would expect all 100 Senators to back this bill.

    The UN needs to be sent the message that meddling in our Constitution will not be tolerated. Call your Senators Monday morning and urge them to sign on to this bill. If they don't want to, then demand to know how they can put the UN above our Constitution.

    All you Wisconsinites out there remember - when you call Feingold's office, remind him that he campainged as a "pro-gun"candidate (which he definately isn't). Kohl's not pro-gun either, and he comes up for election next year I believe. Might want to remind him of that too.