Congress Failing to Protect Second Amendment

 

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Currently, there are a number of bills before the House and Senate
that would help protect Second Amendment rights.  The House, which is
still controlled by the Republicans is supposed to be pro-guns and
supportive of the Second Amendment. ~ Giacomo

In the Senate, even though the
Democrats still have a narrow margin of power, there are a number of
them that have expressed their pro-gun and pro-Second Amendment stands.

Yet, none of the pro-gun bills designed to help protect our Second
Amendment rights have been passed and one has to wonder why.  It seems
to be the perfect time to get these measures through committee and the
floors of both chambers of Congress, but the White House is another
measure. 

Barack Obama has made it obviously clear that he is very much
against guns, the Second Amendment and would love nothing more than to
confiscate every privately own firearm in America.

Among the bills that are before Congress are:

SB 2205, Second Amendment Sovereignty Act,
introduced by Sen Jerry Moran (R-KS).  This bill is designed to keep
the Obama administration from signing the UN Arms Trade Treaty

SB 2213, Respecting States’ Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity
Act, introduced by Sen John Thune (R-SD).  This bill is designed to
require all states to recognize and accept a valid conceal carry permit
from another state. 

Case in point would be Ryan Jerome
who held a conceal carry in Indiana.  He planned to travel to New York
City on business and researched online to see if he could carry his
firearm for protection since he is a jeweler who was carrying over
$15,000 in diamonds.  The information he found on the internet said he
could.  

When he revealed his gun and conceal carry permit to guards at
the Empire State Building, where his business meeting was, he was
arrested and charged by NYPD and charged with felony crimes by
Manhattan’s gun hating District Attorney.

HB 822, National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011, introduced
by Rep Cliff Stearns (R-FL).  This bill is similar to SB 2213.  It was
introduced last year and passed by the House and sent to the Senate
where it has sat untouched by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

HR 2900,
Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement (SAFE) Act, introduced by Rep
Paul Braun (R-GA).  “To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States
Code, to provide for reciprocity in regard to the manner in which
nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in that
State.”

In a strange reversal of roles, the US Supreme Court has rendered two
rulings that uphold the Second Amendment and actually shot down gun
control laws in Chicago and Washington DC.

In the 2008 case of District of Columbia v Heller, the Supreme Court upheld DC Circuit Court ruling that said that,

“The Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess
firearms and that the city’s total ban on handguns, as well as its
requirement that firearms in the home be kept nonfunctional even when
necessary for self-defense, violated that right.”

In the 2012 case of McDonald v Chicago,
the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling concerning the ban on
guns by the cities Chicago and Oak Park.  McDonald relied on the 2008
ruling in favor of Heller to challenge Chicago and Oak Park’s ban on
handguns. 

The lower courts ruled in favor of the cities, but the
Supreme Court basically repeated their Heller ruling by declaring the
city’s ban on handguns to be unconstitutional and a violation of both
the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.

With these two Supreme Court rulings on the books, it seems that now
is the perfect time for the House and Senate to get off their seats and
get the Second Amendment bills passed. 

Write your Senator and
Congressman/woman and urge them to help push these measures through and
secure American’s rights to bear and carry arms before they are stripped
away by the Obama administration.

 

Giacomo – June 1, 2012 – posted at GodfatherPolitics

 

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