Gun Owners Beware

Today’s MinutemanNews.com is a dire warning of what is going to come. The headline article refers to Obama’s blatant boast that he will act with or without congress to implement some form of Amnesty.

If he is allowed to get away with this totally unconstitutional action in this area he will, without question, not stop there. Get ready for the worst assault in history on all of our rights but most especially the rights protected by the Second Amendment. There should be absolutely no question in anyone’s mind that the total elimination of the right of the people to own firearms in this country is the number one item on the agenda of Obama and his Administration over the remainder of his presidency. Those who seek the establishment of tyrannical control over others know that such control is not possible when those “others” can defend themselves as at some point they may just do so.

The question that we, as supporters of the right protected by the Second Amendment, must ask ourselves is “What are we going to do about it?” Puffed up chests and statements such as “From my cold dead fingers.” may sound good and we all may on the surface believe them, but that does not represent a plan. Besides, when as a gun owner you are suddenly assaulted by an armed SWAT team breaking down your door and confiscating all of your firearms you probably aren’t really going to commit suicide and likely get your loved ones killed in the process by resisting them. Remember, too, that although Federal firearms registration is not legal that it has existed for years. Every time you bought a firearm from a licensed dealer you filled out paperwork that “originally” was supposed to remain confidential and never supposed to leave the store where you purchased the firearm. Right! Since the Clinton Administration the BATF has had access to, if not outright possession of, those records and I can attest to that from personal experience.

Mark my words that within the next two and a half years that this President will enact a succession of “executive orders” of increasing severity that will, by the time he leaves office, have paved the road to confiscation of all privately owned firearms if not actually began such action. Those of us who collect firearms, defined as owning more than a “few”, will be the first to receive the attention of the confiscators and will find the theft of our collections described by the collusive press as “a cache of weapons being recovered”.

Again, I ask the question, “What are we going to do about it?”. Do not take this question or the potential impact of your answer lightly. The “cold dead fingers” response does not represent any kind of an answer. Individuals deciding to “go down fighting” would be almost totally ineffective against the organized operation that we will be facing especially since they control most of the media. Also, do not overlook the fact that the simple act of getting together with other Second Amendment supporters and planning actions that even hint at any form of violence or threat thereof constitutes an act of sedition and is, in and of itself, a crime. We must come up with an effective way to defeat what this president is, in my opinion, going to try to do and do so within completely legal boundaries. What those actions may be, at this point I am not sure but I am asking the question: What are we going to do?”