Gun Owners Group: Huge Liberal Power Grab Underway in D.C.
The Democrat-controlled Congress and the White House are pulling out all the stops to offset the oncoming tidal wave that is threatening to throw them out of power this November.
With their polls sagging badly, the liberal Democrats rammed through a Puerto Rican statehood resolution yesterday which many consider the first step towards making Puerto Rico the 51st state -- a move that would give liberal progressives in the Congress six more Representatives and two new Senators.
Making Puerto Rico a state would bring another gun control bastion into our nation and bring almost ten anti-gun congressmen and senators into the Congress.
This is disgraceful! With her party’s polls plummeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to get as many additional progressives into Congress as possible so that she can continue advancing her liberal, anti-American agenda.
Regarding the statehood resolution, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says it “is the Puerto Rico statehood bill which is being pushed by the new progressive party in Puerto Rico trying to create a federally [sanctioned] vote that they say is nonbinding but would give them the legitimacy to then come back and try to seat people in the United States Congress.”
To see how your congressman voted on the Puerto Rican statehood resolution, go to: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll242.xml
GOA will keep you updated as to when a vote is scheduled in the U.S. Senate.
GOA helps kill Pelosi’s attempt to give DC a vote in Congress
Not to be satisfied with merely eight new liberal votes from Puerto Rico, liberal Democrats want to give statehood to Washington, DC. S. 160 would take a major step in that direction by giving this federal enclave a vote in the House of Representatives.
The bill is the DC Voting Rights Act, otherwise known as the DC Vote Grab Act. It would make Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton a legitimate voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
If you know anything about Del. Norton, you know that she is one of the most liberal, anti-gun legislators in the country -- one who completely supports Nancy Pelosi’s agenda. Of course, Democrats are not just going to settle for a mere Representative in Congress … they want statehood for the District of Columbia in order to get two anti-gun Senators, as well.
It seems that the Obama-Reid-Pelosi strategy is to continue screwing the country -- even if it hurts them in the polls -- because then they will work to get as many “new” votes as possible through Puerto Rican statehood … DC statehood … and even things like amnesty for illegal aliens.
But if Pelosi were to succeed in making DC a state, there will be two more liberal votes in the Senate -- a situation that would allow them to break any Republican filibuster that would stymie their anti-gun agenda.
The Senate passed S. 160 last year, and if it were not for Gun Owners of America and Senator John Ensign, it would have been signed into law last spring.
Pro-gun Senator John Ensign and Gun Owners of America worked together to attach an amendment to the DC Vote Grab Act. The amendment would repeal all the restrictive gun control laws still on the books in DC after the landmark D.C. v. Heller Supreme Court decision. The vote margin was an amazing 62-36 in the Senate!
Wiping out DC’s still very restrictive anti-gun laws was not what Speaker Pelosi and other rabid anti-Second Amendment members of the House wanted to see.
Because of this GOA-supported amendment, the House has been unable to take any action on the Senate measure. While Speaker Pelosi has no desire to see a pro-gun provision within the DC bill, many House members are afraid to vote for any such bill that doesn’t contain the pro-gun Ensign amendment. In short, this has been a real Mexican standoff that has lasted for nearly a year.
In fact, when Pelosi tried to bring up the bill last week, she could not muster enough votes to secure passage. S. 160 might now be dead for the year, but GOA will continue watching this and alert you to any attempts to bring up the bill again.
Senate “disses” America’s veterans
For several years, GOA has been alerting gun owners to the travesty of justice that has been perpetrated on our veterans.
After the Brady law went into effect, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began sending the names of many of its beneficiaries to the FBI so they could be added to the NICS list, denying these individuals their right to purchase a firearm. To date, more than 150,000 military veterans have been denied.
However, none of these veterans were ever convicted of a crime; none were found to be a danger to anyone; and none were afforded any meaningful due process of law. Under the semblance of being “mental defectives,” these veterans were added to the list strictly because a doctor or a bureaucrat in the VA appointed someone to manage their finances.
The al-Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo have been given more due process than the American soldiers who fought them!
To combat this outrage, pro-gun Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) authored S. 669, the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act, that will safeguard for veterans two of the most fundamental Constitutional rights enjoyed by Americans: due process of law and the right to keep and bear arms.
The Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act merely stipulates that a veteran cannot lose his or her gun rights “without the order or finding of a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others.”
This very reasonable bill passed out of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee last June, having been approved unanimously.
Burr’s language was offered on the floor of the Senate during the health care debate, but unfortunately, it was defeated 53-45. To see how your Senator voted, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2ufvgu4
GOA will continue fighting for the passage of this very important legislation.
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People we need to vote most of our congress out this go round.
they are all corrupted and voteing their own self interest except perhaps the new one who took kennedies place (thank God). so far as I can tell they are all career polititions (Liars and thieves).
our government , according to the Constitution, is supposed to be of the people, FOR the people and BY THE PEOPLE. We have gone to sleep or been put to sleep by the dreary logic of the Politically Correct crowd. We have been convinced that the elected officials are our leaders. They are NOT our leaders! They are out EMPLOYEES! If you lied constantly to your boss, how long would you keep your job ? If you constantly stole from your employer how long would you keep your job and stay out of jail? If you consistantly did that which was not in the best interest, how long would you stay employed. Our employees are all guilty one way or another of all these things. Look at social security . Good idea to start with. But our employees made it a ponzi scheme just like madoffs crime . Look at our employees retirement scheme. The same salary the rest of their lives with colas? For why? They sell themselves to the highest bidder and get the money from the taxpayer. They do not care about us! They hunger for power and money. They fleece the suckers that hire them. Go to the Canadian Free Press and ask them about this. They have nothing to lose by telling the truth. Ash can the major media sources. They lie to you and twist the truth. And they do it for the money and the power. I love my country and I do not want this to continue because I love the people in this country and I do not wish them to lose their freedom . I am beginning to hate my government however because it is no longer of the people, For the people and BY THE PEOPLE! May God damn them all to hell!
The Dems have no intention of taking on the Second Amendment. All of this sabre-rattling by GOA, the NRA, NSSF, etc. is just that - a way to stir up the membership to keep them sending in extra cash. Many of the state-level gun orgs have been blanketing their members with a constant stream of Tea Party lies as well - it's not about the Second Amendment or truth anymore, it's about getting the Republicans back into office. And their depiction of Dems as desperate and the idea of their "tidal wave" loss is another example of Tea Party mythology.
I do agree that both parties will stir up emotions about the opposing party's views in order to get votes. The libs use the race card every election in one way or another, and they claim the R's want to take away people's welfare and things like that. It's a two way street on that.
However, this isn't something that is being stirred up over nothing. Obama and the libs aren't just "anti-gun", they are acting on it. You talk as if Obama has done nothing in an effort to thwart the 2nd Amendment. They don't take it it on "directly", they sneak in back-door legislation that nullifies the 2nd amendment in effect.
Example?
They are raising the taxes (tremendously) on ammo and guns , with the intent to dissuade purchases There was talk of Obama signing an international treaty that would ban any company to sell a firearm to an individual, and it would be illegal for one individual to sell to another. I have a whole list of legislation that Obama himself voted on to destroy the right to own a gun. I will give you a list later if you are interested. I think I have the list book marked, lol.
I am interested.
For the ban on sales.. That would be unconstitutional even if the vote in the Senate were 100-0. No Internationtal treaty can be signed without the consent of the Senate and the Senate would never authorize such a treaty even if Obamo really really wanted it. Maybe this treaty your talking about, if it exists, isn't as ominous as you think it is.
A similar style conspiracy theory was started about Bush with the "North American Union" and a new north american currency that was called the "Amero" or something like that.
Raising taxes : not a bad idea on a product that is flying off of shelves, but I didn't know it was happening. I know they raised cig taxes, but never realize firearm taxes had been jumped... What was the rate increase?
Sure, I'm interested in reading your link.
I am interested.
For the ban on sales.. That would be unconstitutional even if the vote in the Senate were 100-0. No Internationtal treaty can be signed without the consent of the Senate and the Senate would never authorize such a treaty even if Obamo really really wanted it. Maybe this treaty your talking about, if it exists, isn't as ominous as you think it is.
A similar style conspiracy theory was started about Bush with the "North American Union" and a new north american currency that was called the "Amero" or something like that.
But, sure, I'm interested in reading your link.
You could possibly be right that there isn't one. I had gotten an email on it a while back. It's difficult to verify things like that when none of the news outlets say anything about it...even FOX.
I had another conservative tell me the same thing. Maybe I was worrying too much.
I don't want to go through the link and pick out the individual items that concerned me about bans (like Obama's support of banning hand guns ). Some of it I don't have a problem with. But, what I will do is just give you the link. Just ignore who the website is from and look at the list of facts....and keep in mind I don't mind some of it.
http://www.nraila.org/obama /
So much for doing what's right instead of what wins. All of our politicians have fell into this self-interested state of mind where all they care to preserve is their own agendas. It's the same on both sides, really. Quite sick of it.