The Second Amendment, A Quick Rant, by Bryan Lynch
I do not want to hear arguments for dismantling the second amendment ever again. Ever.
No other protection of our rights as been attacked so viscously, for so long, or so dishonestly as our right to bear arms.
For far too long the law-abiding gun owner has been subjected to more and more restrictions and regulations while continuing to put money in the pockets of those that make the regulations.
The American hunter has been one of the largest contributors both physically and financially to conservation within this country. We pay through permits, licenses, taxes, fuel, boats, ammunition, donations, firearms, clothing, etc. I have seen more trash picked up by hunters continuously in one hunting season than most organization’s volunteers will collect in a year. (A quick note, if you are a volunteer, please keep doing what you are doing, I am not harping on you)
Oh but don’t worry they say. Regulations will not affect hunters they say. They only affect the scary looking guns like the Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 for example or the this version of the Ruger 10-22. But you can still use something that looks like the Winchester Model 1894…for now.
I know that I am preaching to the choir, but the second amendment has nothing, nothing, NOTHING to do with hunting. And all these examples that we are given about the scary looking guns versus the ones that are acceptable are always presented by people that are… uneducated (that is putting it nicely)
To be fair, the above firearms that I listed are not the specific models I have seen targeted in anti-gun presentations, but it is a fair example of the over-reaching attempts by gun grabbers. So, I can’t use a 22 caliber platform simply because it looks scary but I can use something chambered in 30-30 Winchester because it is made of wood and looks old? Again, I know I am preaching to the chore and I promise I am getting to my main point very soon.
Lets not forget the most popular anti-gun question of all, “why do you need it?”
Why do you need a firearm that holds 10,20, 30 rounds of ammunition?
Why do you need a long gun with a pistol grip or adjustable stock?
Or a bump stock?
Or an AR style platform?
Or a semi-automatic?
Or any other of the endless variations of a firearm?
The simplest answer is that I live in the United States of American where we have the second amendment, which is not supposed to be infringed upon. I actually chuckled a bit writing that last part considering how many laws and restrictions the American gun owner has already conceded to.
But ultimately the best answer I can convey is currently staring many Americans in the eye. And that is bad stuff happens by bad people every single day. What’s it been now, six, seven days of rioting, looting and cities on fire from one coast to the other?
Businesses being broken into, people being violently harmed or murdered, highways shut down, people being dragged from their vehicles, police stations burned to the ground, and police officers specifically targeted and murdered.
Most people being affected, harmed or killed in these riots are innocent people of the community. This recent event is just a large-scale presentation of those bad things that happen every single day. And now those groups may be shifting their focus from downtown areas, to residential areas.
Why do you need a firearm? Turn on the news.
Bryan Lynch is an outdoor and emergency preparedness enthusiast. Additionally, he is the author of Swiss Army Knife Camping and Outdoor Survival Guide as well as a content creator for various websites including www.guncritic.com
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I like your article and your thinking. Please, for the sake of not detracting from your message, please proofread your result more carefully. ‘The United States of American’… ‘preaching to the chore’…
“No other protection of our rights as been attacked so viscously, for so long, or so dishonestly as our right to bear arms.”
Correct. But after this sentence, it goes right back to the same old rant and why They can keep doing what they do.
Arms are not the same as Firearms/Guns in the Legal World.
Firearms/Guns are controlled in their UCC, USC, Local Codes and Statutes.
And when YOU keep calling yourself a U.S. citizen and checking that box on all Legal forms that say you are a U.S. citizen, YOU give them full permission to do exactly what they do.
—-U.S. v. Anthony 24 Fed. 829 (1873) “The term resident and citizen of the United States is distinguished from a Citizen of one of the several states, in that the former is a special class of citizen created by Congress.” Though the judge fails to fully admit the circumstance, US citizenship was created as an excuse for the government to claim ownership of all the slaves supposedly freed by the Civil War as chattel backing Union war debts. To this day, black Americans have only Civil Rights.—-
—-Hendrick v. Maryland S.C. Reporter’s Rd. 610-625. (1914) A US Citizen upon leaving the District of Columbia becomes involved in interstate commerce, as a resident does not have the common-law right to travel, of a Citizen of one of the several states. This power of the Congress to rule over the people of the District of Columbia and the Insular states was used as an excuse to impose Drivers Licenses on US citizens living outside the confines of the United States of America (Minor) and miss-applied to Citizens of The United States of America (Major) so-called State Citizens who were entrapped into contract by a process of miss-administration and legal presumption. This applies to the myriad licenses and codes that have been miss-applied to the American People under undisclosed, misrepresented, and otherwise invalid private contracts.—-
When YOU keep getting PERMITS, LICENCES, calling Arms Firearms, paying TAXES (your ignorant tribute), YOU are going right along with THEIR system and giving your consent to what they do.
—-The People does not include you and me.
(Barron v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore. 32 U.S. 243)
—-The UNITED STATES is a corporation and that it existed before the Revolutionary war.
See Republica v. Sweers 1 Dallas 43. 28 U.S.C. 3002 (15)
—-It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect the Corporation and arrest code breakers.
Sapp v. Tallahasee, 348 So. 2nd. 363
Reiff v. City of Philadelphia, 477 F. Supp. 1262
Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice 376 S.E. 2nd. 247
—-“Where rights are SECURED by the Constitution, there can be no RULEMARKING or LEGISLATION to abrogate them.”
MIRANDA vs. ARIZONA
—-“A “Statute’ is not a Law,”
Flournoy v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport, 197 La. 1067, 3 So.2d 244, 248
—-A “Code’ is not a Law,” (In Re Self v Rhay Wn 2d 261), in point of fact in Law,
—-A concurrent or ‘joint resolution’ of legislature is not “Law,”
Koenig v. Flynn, 258 N.Y. 292, 179 N. E. 705, 707;
Ward v State, 176 Okl. 368, 56 P.2d 136, 137;
State ex rel. Todd v. Yelle, 7 Wash.2d 443, 110 P.2d 162, 165
—-All codes, rules, and regulations are for government authorities only, not human/Creators in accord with God’s Laws.
—-“All codes, rules, and regulations are unconstitutional and lacking due process of Law…”
Rodriques v. Ray Donavan, U.S. Department of Labor, 769 F.2d 1344, 1348 (1985)
—-“…an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void…”
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137; 2 L. Ed. 60 (1803)
Until people wake up and stop giving them permission for all they do, nothing will change.
The United States/U.S is NOT a country. It is not the United States of America or The United States of America. You ALL really need to wake up to that.
Take one of those pocket constitutions that everyone keeps waving around and read it with a Highlighter. Mark every reference to the United States, the United States of America, US congress, congress or any other combination.
We have all been bullshitted our entire lives. So were your parents and grand parents. FOX news wont tell you this.
mikrat, wow! Thank you for taking the time to write all of those past judicial arguments. Maybe you could share with the AP readership how they could turn things around, if at all.
73 & God Bless
Hate to break it to ya Scout, but our Second Amendment no longer exists. Every state, including here in Wyoming, has at least a few dumb laws restricting the possession or use of firearms.
And we will have to continue talking about it, because we need to return the Second Amendment to what it was before 1934.
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Great article Bryan…let me add my two cents worth, if I may, about what happened to the first clause of the Second Amendment. The continued destruction of what is left of our Second Amendment is much worse than most people realize. The Militia Act of 1903 and the National Defense Act of 1916, for all intents and purposes, gutted the first clause of the Second Amendment. Moreover, the second clause has been, and continues to be, infringed upon by seditious traitors (and we know who they are!).
“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.”
Dr. Edwin Vieira on Destruction of the Militia
The destruction of the Constitutional Militia of the several States really begins in 1903. At that point Congress created a distinction between, in what it called, the organized Militia, and then what eventually came to be called the unorganized militia. The organized Militia is identified with the National Guard. The unorganized Militia…was everybody else!
Now, the purpose of this operation was to remove most people from active participation in any form of Militia organization. The unorganized Militia essentially does nothing at all. But the National Guard does not have the characteristics of a Constitutional Militia. First and foremost, the National Guard is not a near-universal, compulsory membership organization. Where the National Guard actually fits into the Constitution is Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which states that no State may keep troops or ships of war in time of peace without the consent of Congress. The National Guard is a statutory structure by which the States and Congress have come to an agreement as to how the States will maintain their own troops or ships of war in times of peace. And what that does to the National Guard is make it an adjunct of the regular Army…the National Guard is part of the standing Army and that is why the National Guard went off to World War I. Whereas the Militia could not be called upon to go off as part of the Army. So the goal of this operation by the people who set it up was to increase the size of the reserve forces that would be available for the regular armed forces and to be called upon when they believed that America should become involved in foreign military adventures of one kind or another. And on the other hand, to push everyone else into this unorganized category, which would in fact, reduce the ability of everyone else to participate and influence the martial activities, if you will, of this country and of their various States. If those Militias were actually functioning, very large numbers of people participating, influencing the process, being concerned with what was going on, paying attention, influencing their public officials in the executive branch and the legislature there would be more of, what I would call, a ferment of political involvement of people…now, there is none of that. And the great problem with this is that it leaves all of those people in the unorganized Militia unprepared for the various crises, calamities, really catastrophes, that you can imagine… that would threaten the security of a free State.
For information on revitalizing the Militia of the several States, go to the link below and/or review the vast body of work on the constitutional militia by Dr. Edwin Vieira.
ConstitutionalMilitia.org
In liberty,
Mr. Smith
Eagle, Idaho
It seems, given recent events that the old saw, “When seconds count, police are minutes away”, needs to be updated.
(a) “when seconds count, police are days away”.
As well as, (b) “When seconds count, police are under no legally recognized obligation to respond, at all.”
I always reply the some moron spouts off, saying why do you need a gun, 30rd magazines, scary looking black guns, etc. Well, why do you need shoes??? So there ya go gun grabbers – pound sand! And no one, absolutely no one, would dare go to war with the supposed civilian version of what they refer to as “assault rifle”…… But everyone here already knew that eh!
“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
“Fortunately, the Framers were wise enough to entrench the right of the people to keep and bear arms within our constitutional structure. The purpose and importance of that right was still fresh in their minds, and they spelled it out clearly so it would not be forgotten. Despite the panel’s mighty struggle to erase these words, they remain, and the people themselves can read what they say plainly enough:
“’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.’”
Alex Kozinski, Judge, US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, dissent opinion in Silveira v. Lockyer.
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The Second Amendment merely enumerates a pre-existing right. It guarantees absolutely nothing. The pre-existing right is the right of self-defense. We have this right because of our unalienable right to life, liberty, and property.
If the 2A were to be repealed, so what? Nothing changes. I still have the pre-existing right of self-defense.
Stop fretting and sniveling as if your unalienable rights disappear because someone “destroys” the 2A.
Train hard.
One man’s opinion, for what it is worth. I would like to see all restrictions removed from all civilian firearms and weapons ownership. Or at the very least the law abiding citizen may possess anything that law enforcement may possess, after all the police are civil servants and NOT military. 105mm Howitzer? maybe we should have them.
Our founding fathers brought their privately owned artillery with them when they went to war.
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