Gun Control: Charles Schumer Makes A Move In The Senate To Deny Veterans The Right To Own Firearms
Kurt Nimmo: Prior to the anti-Second Amendment commentary of Bob Costas and Kansas City sports writer Jason Whitlock (who compared the NRA to the KKK), notorious gun-grabber Charles Schumer made a move in the Senate to deny veterans the right to own firearms.
Senator Chuck Schumer. Photo: David Shankbone.
Schumer raised a stink last week after Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., prepared to amend a $631 billion defense bill and prevent the Veterans Affairs Department from adding the names of veterans the government designates as mentally incompetent and unable to handle their finances into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The system effectively shuts down their Second Amendment right to own a firearm.
“I love our veterans, I vote for them all the time. They defend us,” Schumer said. “If you are a veteran or not and you have been judged to be mentally infirm, you should not have a gun.”
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said that if the government deems you “unable to handle your own affairs, that’s likely to constitute a high percentage of people who are dangerously mentally ill.”
For Gross, Schumer and the VA, “infirm” not only applies to people who suffer from schizophrenia, but also from post-traumatic stress disorder. In recent years, the gun-grabbers have used PTSD as an excuse to deny gun rights to veterans.
[Related: CNN Anchor Piers Morgan Calls For Increased Gun Control and Said The 2nd Amendment Was Outdated]
“PTSD is only the beginning,” we warned in June. “There are any number of medical conditions the government will ultimately cite in order to restrict gun ownership.”
“We consider it an abject tragedy that so many of our veterans return home, after risking life and limb to defend our freedom, only to be stripped of their Second Amendment rights because they need help managing their compensation,” Chris Cox of the NRA said last year.
“We want to remove these stigmas for mental health treatment. It’s a combat injury,” said Tom Tarantino, chief policy officer for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, in response to the move by Sen. Schumer. “They wouldn’t be doing this if you were missing your right hand, so they shouldn’t be doing it if you’re seeking treatment for post-traumatic-stress-disorder or traumatic brain injury.”
In June, we wrote about how Obamacare will ultimately centralize medical records and “allow the FBI to troll a list of Americans for ailments such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to deny them their gun rights, in the same way that the Veterans Administration has already denied more than 150,000 veterans their right to bear arms,” according to Gun Owners of America.
The corporate media is cranking up the anti-gun propaganda machine in the wake of the tragic murder-suicide of NFL linebacker Jovan Belcher.
Ashley Fantz, writing for the military psy op CNN, quotes Dr. Scott Eliason who says that a “middle-aged man who is recently separated or facing pending estrangement from an intimate partner and who is depressed and has access to firearms” potentially poses a serious threat. In addition, “an older male who is the primary caregiver for a spouse who is ill or debilitated, where there is a recent onset of new illness in the male, depression and access to firearms” may commit murder.
[Related: Mystery Surrounding 1.2 Billion Rounds Of Ammo Solved]
Considering the government’s inevitable mission creep (especially in regard to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) it is entirely possible “at risk” middle age non-veterans may also have their firearms ownership either denied or their firearms confiscated following the implementation of Obamacare and its sprawling database.
The antipathy of Democrats toward the right to own firearms is legendary and Obama now believes he has a mandate to attack the Constitution under the cover of Obamacare (as he previously attacked it under the mission to fight terrorism, as did his predecessor).
“The ObamaCare bill already contains language that will punish Americans who engage in unhealthy behavior by allowing insurers to charge them higher insurance premiums. (What constitutes an unhealthy lifestyle is, of course, to be defined by legislators.),” Gun Owners of America writes. “Don’t be surprised if an anti-gun nut like [noted gun-grabber and HHS boss Kathleen Sebelius] uses this line of thinking to impose ObamaCare policies which result in a back-door gun ban on any American who owns ‘dangerous’ firearms.”
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Got mad when i read what what the ADL wrote about the following articles, figured i would print what is closer to the truth (way closer in my opinion).
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/oath_keepers_three_percenters.htm
What is a "Three Percenter"?
During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.
Three Percenters today do not claim that we represent 3% of the American people, although we might. That theory has not yet been tested. We DO claim that we represent at least 3% of American gun owners, which is still a healthy number somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million people. History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. We are one such minority. So too are the current enemies of the Founders' Republic. What remains, then, is the test of will and skill to determine who shall shape the future of our nation.
The Three Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act. Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any further circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration of the Founders' Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against enemies foreign and domestic.
We are the people that the collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril.
To put it bluntly, leave us the hell alone.
Or, if you feel froggy, go ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.
This is a linkable version of the explanation at the upper right hand corner of my blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars (sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com). It was suggested by good friends that we needed a linkable version, so here it is as a straight-up post and also as an email to my private list. Feel free to circulate it far and wide. http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-is-three-percenter.html Welcome to Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution
Our motto is "Not on our watch!"
If you, the American people, are forced to once again fight for your liberty in another American Revolution, you will not be alone. We will stand with you.There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But you can rest assured that many others in the military do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution, and understand what that means.
The mission of Oath Keepers is to vastly increase their numbers. We are in a battle for the hearts and minds of our own troops. To win that battle, Oath Keepers will use written and video testimony of active duty military, veterans (especially combat vets), and peace officers to reach, teach, and inspire our brothers in arms in the military and police to fulfill their oaths and stand as guardians of the Republic.
If you are currently in the military, are a veteran, or are a peace officer, please submit your written and/or video testimony on your oath, so you can help us win that battle for hearts and minds. Your submission may be anonymous.
What We Are Not
“written by Capt. Gregory Gooch (Rent.) in March, 2009″ who was is now a retired member of the Oath Keepers National Board.
We are Not advocating or promoting the overthrow of any government whether local, state or national. We want our governments to return to the Constitutional Republic which the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution defined and instituted.
We are Not advocating or promoting violence towards any organization, group or person. We are determined to Keep our Oath to support and defend the Constitution.
We are not advocating or promoting the removal of any person from his or her elected office. We want all elected persons to live up to their Oath to “support and defend the Constitution” as it is written or to leave of their own volition.
We are not advocating or promoting that anyone in the Judicial Branch be removed or replaced. We want the Justices in the Judicial Branch to follow the Constitution as written without interpretation.
We are not advocating or promoting any particular form of government other than the Constitutional Republic which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution defined and instituted.
We are not advocating or promoting the rewriting of the Constitution nor are we asking for an Amendment thereto. We are insisting on the Constitution being Enforced as it is written.
We are Not advocating or promoting any act or acts of aggression against any organization or person for any
reason including, but not limited to; race, religion, national origin, political affiliation, gender or sexual orientation.
We hope for a return to a Constitutional Republic free from fear and hatred. We hate only tyranny.
We are Oath Sworn Americans who want the Constitution returned to its legal and rightful place, intact, as the ultimate Law of the Land.
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/about/
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