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New Orleans, Criminals, Looters, and Second Amendment Rights

By John Taft
Investigative Reporter

Second Amendment rights floated to the surface on the flood waters left by hurricane Katrina after devastating the Gulf Coast region and the city of New Orleans. Thousands are reportedly dead, and tens of thousands who didn’t evacuate the now ruined city of New Orleans were left hungry, in harm’s way, and depending on government to rescue them. Only there was no government organized to rescue them and restore order for several days. This was a catastrophe of monumental proportions perhaps somewhat comparable to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. With no government and effective police force, this was the catalyst for the unleashing of the intrinsic evil in man’s nature. The result of this was anarchy resulting from the failure of government. The evils engendered released predators who looted, raped, murdered, and shot at civil authorities attempting to help those in distress.

An AP article dated August 31, 2005[1] reported that, “New Orleans homeland security chief Terry Ebbert said looters were breaking into stores all over town and stealing guns. He said there are gangs of armed men moving around the city.”

The same article stated that, “Looters tried to break into Children’s Hospital while staff and sick children huddled waiting in vain for help to arrive as looters tried to break through the locked door. Neither the police nor national guard arrived.”

Predators on the Prowl

Predators are always in a society’s midst waiting for their release from the restrictions of law and order to pillage, loot, rape, and murder. When a natural or man made disaster occurs, these individuals are like predatory wild animals preying on those unable to defend themselves. Women are often targets for rape, and the elderly are robbed. A well armed and trained citizenry is less likely to be subjected to thugs who take advantage of disasters while government initially wrings its hands in helplessness and confusion. If your guns are taken by the despots in government, you can easily become a victim of those with criminal intent. If allowed to, Chuck Schumer D-NY, Sarah Brady, and their friends would like to collect your guns, and they can’t protect you from the criminal element of society.

This article looks at the vision of the founding fathers regarding Second Amendment rights, the liberal left’s agenda of taking away your gun rights, how they are attempting to do this, and why these individuals are a menace to the Constitution and your inalienable right not to be a victim or prey to the predators like you find in the City of New Orleans, and other cities, and communities throughout the United States.

The elected officials in Congress and in every state legislature and community who advocate and work to restrict the ownership of guns or the total ban of these weapons are the Second Amendment’s bane and the honest citizens’ avowed enemy. They are willing to steal the citizens’ gun rights and put them at risk of death, injury, and theft by making them prey to the predators of our society. The gun banning crowd is the predator’s best friend and the honest citizens’ worst nightmare.

England Bans Handguns and Gun Crime Rises

England, Wales, Australia, and Canada have basically lost their gun rights. Hand guns are banned in England, but not for criminals; only honest citizens turned in their guns. In his article, “The Failed Experiment,” Gary A. Mauser said, “Despite Britain’s banning and confiscating all hand guns, violent crime and firearms crime continues to grow. Gun laws don’t reduce crime as proven by studying the facts.”[2]

Common sense and reason have nothing to do with the left’s agenda to ban guns. For example: Since 1990 a ticking time bomb sat quietly as a law in Washington D.C., waiting for the opportunity to explode and destroy the US gun manufacturing industry and the gun dealers. This unconstitutional law was titled the “Assault Weapon Manufacturing Strict Liability Act.” The intent of the law was to hold gun manufacturers, importers, and dealers in the Washington, D.C. area accountable for the discharge of an assault weapon or machine gun that caused death or damage. The definition of an assault weapon included semi-automatic firearms or whatever these pompous law makers wanted the law to mean.[3]

Fruitcakes in the Courthouse

US Courts are packed with too many fruitcakes making rummy decisions non stop year around. These individuals can’t be trusted to act rationally or protect the US Constitution they have sworn to uphold. This is easily shown by the decision the full DC Appeals Court made in supporting this ridiculous law. This court voted 8 to 1 in support of holding gun manufacturers liable for acts criminals committed using a gun. For a follow up, will attorneys next use the courts to pursue General Motors because it manufactured the vehicle a drunk driver used to commit mayhem and death against the innocent? The list of victims that could be sued is endless. Instead of dispensing justice, the courts have often become a money distributing racket benefiting the judges, lawyers, cops, and administrators.

Senate Bill 397 Creates a Shield against Lawsuits

Lawsuits were being filed by weasels (attorneys) in the hen house (courts) against gun manufacturers and suppliers. The cost to gun manufacturers had soared to $200 million and was climbing. Second amendment rights were on the brink of being lost to bad legislators, lawyers and judges. These people are the enemy within, who continually work to seize citizens’ gun rights through corrupt legislation. This they will continue to do until they are destroyed as a political force in this nation. Those who support Second Amendment rights were properly concerned and took action.

Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho came to the rescue saying, “This bill (S. 397) is intended to do one thing, and that is to end the abuse that is now going on in the court system of America against law-abiding American businesses when they violate no law.'' Craig supports Second Amendment rights in Congress.

Oregon Senator Gordon Smith on the Black List

On Friday, July 29, th the Senate passed S. 397 by a 65-31 vote. Four senators didn’t bother to vote. Those not voting were Senator Gordon Smith R-OR, Sununu R-NH, Roberts R-KS, and Feinstein D-CA. In this instance Senator Gordon Smith R-OR and the other nonvoting senators are just as bad as those attempting to destroy Second Amendment rights. They didn’t care enough to cast their votes. Every gun owner and supporter of Second Amendment rights needs to know how his senator voted.[4] The infamous 31 senators and the 4 nonvoting senators who failed to support gun rights should be targeted and voted out of office and replaced with staunch supporters of the Constitution and Second Amendment rights.

Senator Kennedy, Mary Jo, and Gun Rights

One of the more notorious anti Second Amendment right’s pursuers is D-MA Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy. Kennedy gave Mary Jo her last ride and wants to do the same with your gun rights. In his state of Massachusetts the voters have wandered far from the hopes and aspirations of the founding fathers into the abyss of the welfare state mentality. This is a serious mental illness that can only be cured by ridding themselves of liberal legislators. Here’s what Kennedy had to say about S. 397. "It's a blatant special interest bill to protect gun makers and dealers, even if they make firearms recklessly available to criminals and terrorists," (That isn’t done) He continued with calling it a demonstration of the "raw, special interest power" of the gun lobby. Kennedy is out of tune with many of his fellow democrats. Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, the minority leader, joined with 13 other Democrats and 50 Republicans and one independent in supporting S. 397. Next stop is the House of Representatives which reconvenes on September 6th after a month’s furlough. Here is the information the reader needs to make this an easy win in house of representatives. Contact your congressman and tell him you want S.397 passed just like it was in the senate.[5]

Last year the democrats had the muscle to prevent the senate shield bill (S.397) from passing. Since their ranks were depleted in the last election, these gun banners have lost their clout in Congress. However, they are always dangerous and continue to pose a threat to Second Amendment rights. This year there were four new republicans in the senate and a number of democrats from conservative areas who decided supporting the Second Amendment rights made political sense.

Senator Feinstein Carried a Concealed Handgun

Senator Diane Feinstein, D-CA is a San Francisco native, a radical activist against Second Amendment rights and reportedly the only person in San Francisco with a gun permit. In the year 2000 on 60 minutes she said, “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out-right ban… (Ban on guns in the US) I would have done it.”[6]

She doesn’t want honest responsible citizens to have a hand gun, or any kind of gun for that matter, yet she has had a permit to carry a handgun and did so. She was reportedly the target of a radical group and was in fear of her life. Feinstein said, “I know the urge to arm yourself because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. I’d walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out; I was going to take them with me.” Diane’s gun training had to be minute as she is shown in a photo demonstrating an automatic weapon to a group of people with her finger on the trigger and pointing the gun at the audience. Both things a person trained in the use of firearms would never do.

It’s good for me, but not for the pathetic sheeple, is the general attitude of liberal senators and congressman and this is sheer hypocrisy on Diane’s part. Does Feinstein believe the founding fathers were stupid and ignorant when they included Second Amendment rights in the Constitution? The fact is police can’t protect you from criminals; you’re on your own. This was shown to be fact in the initial days in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Feinstein recognized when there is no one there to protect you, you do it yourself; so she got a handgun. Government is generally inefficient, corrupt, and unable to care for you, and that’s why Feinstein carried a handgun. I repeat that the federal, state, and local governments can’t protect you from the opportunistic criminal element in society. If the reader doubts this statement, then he should read the following paragraph.

Is Your Family Safe? There Is a Rape and Sexual Assault every 2 Minutes.

Let’s take a look at the national crime statistics: They show that by mid-2004 there were over 2.1 million individuals incarcerated in local jails and prisons in the US; this was a 2.3 percent increase over the previous 12 months.[5] One could conclude, with that many people in prison there should be little if any crime. Unfortunately, that just isn’t so. The national crime time clock shows there’s no shortage of crime across the US. Many of the following stats are published by the U.S. Department of Justice and others. The Crime Clock shows the occurrence of crimes in the United States for 2003-4: A violent crime occurs every 6 seconds, murder every 32 minutes, robbery every 57 seconds, physical assault every 7 seconds, rape and sexual assault every 2 minutes, and burglary every 10 seconds. These are just a sample of the crimes against society that are constantly taking place.[7] And Diane, Sarah, Chuck, and Teddy and their friends want your handgun and rifle so they can further empower predators who have declared open season on the American taxpayer. Does the reader consider himself a meal ticket for the next unemployed thug? It’s unlikely that a women trained in the use of a handgun will be humiliated by being raped by a bozo with or without a STD.

Concealed Handgun Carry Good for All States

In Florida many tourists who fly in and rent a car are subject to carjackers who know the tourist cannot carry a gun on an airline. It’s open season on hapless victims year around. It’s been said if bears carried guns there would be fewer hunters. The risk factor would be unacceptable to the hunter. John R. Lott Jr., author of More Guns, Less Crime, said, “If the rest of the country had adopted right-to-carry concealed-handgun provisions in 1992, about 1,500 murders and 4,000 rapes would have been avoided.”[8] There would be far fewer rapes and assaults on women, as the previous statement declares, if they possessed and were trained in the use of a handgun. Every woman who is able to should consider the previous fact and act accordingly. Those who would disarm the American citizen are the enemy, not the gun or honest citizen gun owner. If you are about to be assaulted, raped, or robbed, and your gun is gone, invoking the name of Charles Schumer, Edward Kennedy, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, or Sarah Brady will have no effect on your assailant. The Second Amendment is a gift to be cherished from the wisdom of the founding fathers of our US Constitution in a very unpredictable world.

In Florida Your Home Is Your Castle

Florida has become the bellwether state for gun rights in recent years, leading the way in pro-gun legislation. The “Castle Doctrine” was signed into law on April 27, 2005, and will take effect October 1, 2005. “The "Castle Doctrine" simply says that if a criminal breaks into your home, your occupied vehicle, or your place of business, you may presume he is there to do bodily harm, and you may use any deadly force against him. It also removes the “duty to retreat” if you are attacked in any place you have a right to be. Furthermore, this law provides protection from criminal prosecution and civil litigation for those who defend themselves from criminal attack.[9]

Past National Rifle Association (NRA) president and current Executive Director of Unified Sportsmen of Florida, Marion P. Hammer, stated, "Existing law is on the side of the criminal. The news that you can’t defend yourself against a rapist who’s trying to drag you into an alley or against a carjacker who’s trying to drag you out of your car is nonsense. The ability to protect yourself, your children, or your spouse is important, no matter where you are. I want to thank Governor Bush and the bill sponsors, Sen. Peaden and Rep. Baxley, for supporting this vital measure. This law is about affirming that your home is your castle and, in Florida, you have a right to be absolutely safe inside its walls,” Hammer concluded.[10]

Sam Adams Speaks Out on Guns

Samuel Adams was no slouch in representing his views on gun rights. He said, “And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; … or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.”

UN Wants Your Guns

Second Amendment rights are under siege around the world. The United Nations World Constitution says, “The age of nations must end… The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they surrender their arms.”[11] The UN constitution is in conflict with the US Constitution which says, “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.” Obviously, the UN is not interested in the concept of a Free State, but totalitarian control of the citizenry.

The argument the liberals use that guns are only for the police and military is shown to be hollow by the following statement, “But restricting arms to the military and police eviscerates the principle that power should flow from the people to government, and turns the government into a master rather than a servant. Those opposed to the Second Amendment have been charged with "project[ing] an elitist myopia that may well reflect their own safe and privileged position in society."[12] That seems to fit well with Ted Kennedy.

Free Man or Slave?

In conclusion, our founding fathers never intended we be without firearms to protect our homes, family, and Constitution. Thomas Jefferson said, “No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and the price to keep and bear, arms is the same.

1. AP article August 31, 2005 Grants Pass Daily Courier, page 8B
2. www.hardylaw.net
3. Shooting Times, September 2005 issue Gun Legislation page 12, James Jay Baker
4. www.arizonawildlifecouncil.org
5. abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter
6. www.findarticles.com
7. Crime Clock
8. www.press.uchicago.edu
9. www.nraila.org
10. www.nraila.org
11. quotes.libertytree.ca
12. www.constitution.org
    

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