It is disgraceful that some in the Senate have shamelessly
exploited the victims of
The US Constitution would not have been ratified in 1789 nor at any other time had the 2nd Amendment not been added in the form in which it is written. The Preamble to the Bill or Rights makes clear what the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is:
?THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.?
What moron could argue that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment has any other purpose other than to prevent the federal government from using a fully equipped military force against the states and the people thereof? But we do have people even in our Senate and in the Presidency who will argue that the people should be disarmed and made vulnerable to? military might because some lunatic got hold of some guns and killed some kids. And for that reason the whole nation should be disarmed and made vulnerable to military arms. Shotguns and pistols cannot be effective against military arms. And it is clear that the tyrants will not stop until the people have nothing but garden tools to defend themselves.
Contrary to the CNN and mainstream news bombardment of the American public with the lie that we do not know what the founders? intended purpose of the 2nd Amendment was; I offer Federalist Letters #29 and #46 written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, the architect of the US Constitution:
?But though the scheme of disciplining the whole
nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of
the utmost importance that a well-digested plan should, as soon as possible, be
adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the
government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps
of moderate extent, upon such principles as will really fit them for service in
case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan, it will be possible to have an
excellent body of well-trained militia, ready to take the field whenever the
defense of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for
military establishments, but if
circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any
magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people
while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in
discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and
those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that
can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it,
if it should exist.? (#29
?Since the federal government has maintained an unlawful standing federal army for 65 years in violation of Article 1 Section 8 and the federal government has formed the ?Department of Homeland Security? and armed it with over a billion rounds of hollow point ammunition and ordered over 3,000 armored street vehicles to be used on American soil it boggles the mind that any citizen would voluntarily surrender their firearms of any kind in the face of federal and state tyranny across this land.
James Madison assures us that tyrannical governments with standing armies funded to the maximum still fear an armed citizenry and the most oppressive of governments with the most military power cannot subdue a citizenry armed with military style weapons as all state citizens are to maintain under the 2nd Amendment:
?That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period
of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of men ready to betray both [state
and federal]; that the traitors should,
throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for
the extension of the [federal] military establishment; that the governments and
the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering
storm, and continue to supply the
materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must
appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or
the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober
apprehensions of genuine patriotism. Extravagant
as the supposition is, let it
however be made. Let a regular [federal] army, fully equal to the resources
of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the
federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State
governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger.
Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this
country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility
of it. Besides the advantage of being
armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other
nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are
attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier
against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a
simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military
establishments in the several kingdoms of
It is clear that James Madison was in favor of and trusted that as long as the people were armed in a manner equal to the standing federal army that no amount of tyrannical ambition could subdue and oppress them. But now we see that his dreaded and doubted supposition he put forth is now before this Senate and House. And the citizens of the states have indeed watched silently and patiently the gathering storm and continue to supply the materials to be used against them and to even surrender their meek weapons to federal tyrants.
I therefore ask in the name of almighty God that you resist
this degenerate effort of some vile fanatics who think nothing of exploiting
the tragedy of
Sincerely,
Ronald F. Avery