Gun Owners of America Ready for Anti-Gun Battles in Congress
In March, both the U.S. House and Senate finished up work on a massive, anti-gun $10 billion omnibus federal land bill.
The bill had been held up for over a year in large part due to GOA members fighting for Second Amendment rights on federal land -- YOUR land.
The Second Amendment has been null and void for many years on all land controlled by the National Park Service (NPS). While regulations promulgated in the waning days of the Bush administration partially reversed that gun ban, a federal judge recently blocked those rules from taking effect.
GOA worked closely with pro-gun members of the House and Senate to add a complete repeal of the NPS gun prohibition to the larger land bill. While these efforts delayed passage of the bill, in the end the anti-gun congressional leadership teamed up with "pro-gun" compromisers and passed the measure without protecting the Second Amendment.
In an effort to appease gun owners, language was added to the bill to protect hunting and fishing.? But, as GOA pointed out to the Congress, the Founding Fathers did not pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to protect a recreational pastime.
The final attempt to protect the Second Amendment from NPS bureaucrats came on a procedural vote in the House that would have made in order an amendment, sponsored by pro-gun Reps. Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Rob Bishop (R-UT), to repeal the gun ban.? That motion failed by a vote of 242-180.
So now not only does the gun ban remain in place, the new bill greatly expands the total amount of NPS land. Since NPS-controlled parks and trails also include many busy roadways, hundreds of thousands of gun owners can unwittingly find themselves in violation of the gun ban without even knowing they are on federal land.
Representatives Hastings and Bishop, along with Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), have vowed to continue their efforts to wipe this unconstitutional gun ban from the books. In the Senate, Tom Coburn (R-OK) is also pushing for the repeal of the anti-gun NPS regulations.
Many important battles for your Second Amendment rights lay before us. For instance, Barack Obama and his anti-gun cronies are making a massive push to renew the Clinton semi-auto ban.
The President and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, are blaming the current violence among Mexican drug cartels on firearms from the United States. This is another blatant attempt by anti-gun advocates to use whatever situation they can find to further erode your Second Amendment rights.
The problems of corruption and violence in Mexico should not be used as an excuse to curtail your right to keep and bear arms. But once again law-abiding American gun owners are in danger of being punished for the criminal actions of others.
The Clinton gun ban is just one of the attacks that you and GOA will be fighting.
There is also a massive anti-gun bill in Congress, H.R. 45, that includes universal gun owner licensing and registration, and the Obama White House continues its efforts to ban private firearms transactions at gun shows.
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"Gun Owners of America Ready for Anti-Gun Battles in Congress"
Really? So, they're ready to demand the full and immediate repeal of all existing gun laws , as well as the cessation of any new ones, then? Because, if they're not, they aren't doing a damned thing to restore the Second Amendment. It has remained infringed by hundreds of laws for seventy-five years and not one so-called "gun rights" organization has yet called for the repeal of those laws. If Gun Owners of America truly has any interest in defending or preserving the Second Amendment, why are they, instead, compromising and not only allowing new laws to be piled onto the heap already existing, but are doing nothing about the continuing infringement?
In June of 2008 a Japanese video game playing temp worker rented a two ton truck, drove it into a crowd, jumped out and stabbed seventeen killing seven. In Japan guns are not available to these killers.
I have been shouting this for six years. The problem that causes these mass murder events was discovered and solved forty years ago, Subliminal Distraction.
It caused mental breaks for office workers until the cubicle was created to deal with the vision startle reflex by 1968.
The Virginia Tech, Redlake School, Joleka Finland School, and Atlanta Day Trader killers all created the circumstances for this problem.
VisionAndPsychosis.Net is an investigation of Subliminal Distraction.
I looked at the past 15 years of mass killings in the US. All the cases were either untreated mental illness or members of law enforcement. Most were planned ahead so weapons, including bombs, could be obtained. See details at: http://rideronthestorm-armed.angelfire.com /
I agree that mental illness is apparently present in many of the shootings. But you should remember that the diagnosis of mental illness is just that, a diagnosis. No one can open the box and determine why bizarre behavior happened. None of the " disorders" of the DSM actually exist. They are just descriptive names given to observed and grouped behaviors. The APA admits they don't know the cause of any disorder, except for the believed part trauma plays in PTSD.
(DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness by the American Psychiatric Association = APA.)
When Army engineers working on the ALCAN highway began to have the same mental breaks as soldiers in combat the Army ignored that contradiction and blamed isolation in Alaska. Several opportunities to find the cause of mental breakdowns have occurred over the years.
When there was a full psychotic break on Soyuz-21, the Russian space mission, the Russian space agency cited twelve possible causes. None of them was Subliminal Distraction. They don't know it exists.
When a NASA astronaut drove 900 miles to confront a romantic rival no one suspected SD. See her picture on the Space Station page at my site. There will eventually be a major incident if NASA does not provide Cubicle Level Protection in the Space Station. There was an ax murder at a Russian Antarctic Station. There have been fist fights over chess games in Russian space missions. They banned chess in space.
Do you remember the paranoid psychotic rant of Cho the Virginia Tech shooter? If you listen to interviews of roommates he had used the suite common room to study with his laptop while others walked by ignoring him. That's a description of Subliminal Distraction.
Read about my wife's mental breakdown I know what caused it but it could not be distinguished from mental illness. When she began to hear voices she demanded I get my gun and make "those people" leave her alone.
Something similar is happening to cause most mass shootings. Each case is different but if investigated Subliminal Distraction will be found in most of them. It will be mistaken for mental illness.
http://VisionAndPsychosis.Net