On Dec. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case of Nojay v. Cuomo. At stake is nothing less than whether the Second Amendment grants substantive gun rights to Americans or is meaningless and allows government total control over what firearms citizens may or may not possess.
On Jan. 15, 2013, New York passed the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, commonly known as the SAFE Act. The SAFE Act is beyond question the most draconian gun control passed in the history of the United States – and a cornerstone of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s stated plan to make New York “the progressive capital of the nation.”But the SAFE Act has – by design – implications far beyond the borders of New York. The law’s backers – an ultra-left-wing cabal that includes Cuomo, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, and State Senate majority leader Jeffrey Klein – know that if the law is upheld in the federal courts, it will be only a matter of time before the opportunity arises for Congress to pass similar legislation for the entire nation, effectively killing the Second Amendment forever.
The SAFE Act’s provisions are massive and breathtaking assaults on the Second Amendment.The law entirely bans the sale of all semi-automatic civilian copies of military rifles issued anywhere in the world within the past sixty years or so. (Actual military-issue rifles are almost always fully automatic machine guns, and were already totally banned.) The ban covers the most popular target and competition rifle in the country, the AR-15 (the civilian version of the military M-16). It also includes civilian copies of military rifles such as the M-14, AK-47, H&K G3, Steyr AUG, and FN-FAL, and numerous others.
But it gets even worse:
The SAFE Act also allows any doctor or nurse to declare a gun owner unfit to own a firearm; police are then required to confiscate all of that individual’s guns. (The doctor or nurse making the allegation of unfitness is explicitly shielded by the law from civil liability.)
There’s also a legal strategy to gut the Second Amendment:
The law’s backers are calling the bluff of gun owners in a very high-stakes gamble. They are attempting to force the hand of the Supreme Court to rule that all Americans have a constitutional right to an AK-47 and a 30-round magazine, and they are confident that a court dominated by justices from liberal states with the strictest gun control laws in the country will vote “no.”
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor are all ultra-liberals from New York City, and Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy are from liberal Northern California. That could be five votes right there.Only one justice – Samuel Alito – has any military experience and any personal familiarity with the firearms in question. And Justice Scalia, a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment despite having grown up in New York, is getting on in years. If Scalia retires or passes on without ruling on the SAFE Act within the next two years, his replacement will be nominated by President Obama – and it’s curtains for the Second Amendment.
Source:http://www.americanthinker.com
Anybody else notice almost everyone named in this article is Jewish?
ReplyDelete"...whether the Second Amendment grants substantive gun rights to Americans...". The second amendment DOESN'T GRAND ANYTHING. It acknowledges our God given right to defend ourselves from tyranny. Read it carefully
ReplyDeleteThe action of the Supreme Court in this clear cut case should tell us if even the Justice portion of the republic has been co-opted. Significant evidence already suggests that it is no longer "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Citizens United has already bastardized the electoral process, making an elected representation less likely.
ReplyDeleteYes, or Goy whores. What do you expect from political parties that accept dual citizens for political office?
ReplyDeleteI feel that the 2nd amendment was written more of a right for the citizens to overthrow the government by force, if they feel they are not being represented or respected by the politicians, as our forefathers knew how corrupt government can become, with too much power. We are reaching that breaking point, our government is broke, bought by the rich and corporations, police out of control acting more like invading armies, and supplied by our own government with these weapons of war/surplus military to use against its own citizens. I feel there will be a revolution and overthrow of the government within the next 30 years if things don't drastically change...there will be blood. NEVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard of an ARMY that was not allowed to have arms/weapons by It's own government?
ReplyDeleteFind one government in the entire history of humanity that felt a need to document a "RIGHT" for it's soldiers to carry weapons.
The claim that the Government wrote the 2nd Amendment to give Our soldiers a "right" to carry weapons is S-T-U-P-I-D.
The only reason for the Second Amendment is to clearly spell-out the GOD GIVEN RIGHT of INDIVIDUALS to keep & bear ARMS.
The only reason for the BILL(list) of RIGHTS was to codify INDIVIDUALS' GOD GIVEN RIGHTS.
Has there ever been a government that was not chock full of it's "rights" up to and including declaring itself to be the Lord God Almighty?!
Does the 1st Amendment mean the GOVERNMENT is allowed to give speeches? Try shutting up any Government.
Anyone who tells you the 2nd Amendment applies to the Army or State Militia, is telling you they think you are STUPID.
There has NEVER been a government that felt it had to codify it's army's/soldier's "RIGHT" to "Keep and BEAR ARMS" because there has NEVER been a government that refused to allow It's own soldiers to KEEP and BEAR ARMS!
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"Damn it, it isn't a function of the States to deprive its people the means of self-protection. Doesn't it strike you as odd that all our governments who loudly claim to rule by the will of the people are willing to run almost any risk rather then let the people have arms? Isn't it almost a principle that a people should not be allowed to defend itself, but should be forced to defend its Government? The only people I know who are trusted by their Government are the Swiss." -- John Wyndham -- The Kraken Wakes (Penguin edition page 161)-- 1953
Funny,so were the all the COMMUNISTS ..... NOTE: It was USSR ..... Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics not "COMMUNIST" Republics. Of the 502 highest officers of the 1917 First Soviet Socialist Government, 467 were Jews. Alexandr Solzenitzyn writes in his last book on the history of Russia that the Jews murdered over 66 million Russians. Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Bakunum, Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, and others were all Jews by two or at least one parent. All the prison camps, torture chambers, gulags, etc were all commanded and run by Jews.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson of history is clear and unequivocal; FIRST governments require gun registration; SECOND they confiscate the Citizen's guns; THIRD these loving governments commit mass genocide on their own citizens.
ReplyDeleteHopefully this time around the Citizen has more sense than to be disarmed by a potential genocidist.