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Time to fight
12 years ago
Those in the US may have noticed that there's a huge deal going on with gun control right now. Recently, Vice President Biden stated that the problem could be dealt with by an executive order. If you support gun control, think of it this way. Imagine if the president had written SOPA/PIPA into law by executive order. That would be a massive abridgment of the first amendment, in the same way as anything regarding the second amendment would be. It guts the separation of powers, and establishes a precedent of Rule by King. Maybe you agree with what's being done, but what if power changes sides, and someone you don't like is in the White House? Would you like them to be able to deal with any problem by executive order?
Anything that happens with this will be bad, and no matter what they claim, it's an attempted step towards outlawing guns. Depending on what they do and how they do it, there might be MASSIVE consequences. Please, call or email your representatives, and tell them to resist any legislation.
http://capwiz.com/nra/dbq/officials/ this will help you find your representatives and write to all of them in one go. Tell them that the Second Amendment is important, and this legislation is attempting to implement a proven process to eliminate it. Even just "closing the gun show loophole" would allow for the creation of a backdoor registry, and almost every arms registry in history has lead to confiscation.
Anything that happens with this will be bad, and no matter what they claim, it's an attempted step towards outlawing guns. Depending on what they do and how they do it, there might be MASSIVE consequences. Please, call or email your representatives, and tell them to resist any legislation.
http://capwiz.com/nra/dbq/officials/ this will help you find your representatives and write to all of them in one go. Tell them that the Second Amendment is important, and this legislation is attempting to implement a proven process to eliminate it. Even just "closing the gun show loophole" would allow for the creation of a backdoor registry, and almost every arms registry in history has lead to confiscation.
But I agree with you 100% on the executive order thing. A nations constitution will always need to be altered and updated (that is after all the definition of "amendment"), however it simply must be done with proper consensus of the people of the day. If a constitution has no such protection, and isn't held with a degree of sacrosanctness, and is rather altered at will by the government of the day, then the constitution becomes merely a set of political policies that changes every 4 years. Or whenever a poll result comes out.
Though I sit here form afar without much skin in the game, I would still be happy to see the second amendment ditched. But not like that.