Lurking
in the Legislative Depths
By Peter F. Boyce
2010 Constitution Party Congressional Candidate NJ-2
We were entrusted with a legacy: “The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.” We cannot protect freedom by taking it away anymore than we can borrow ourselves out of debt. If the American people were not going broke as a result of over-bearing government regulations strangling American industry, prosperity would return and we would be able to afford our own health care. There is, however, an urgent need to rein in lawyers and courts with TORT reform. This would bring down doctors’ malpractice insurance and the fees they must charge to practice their profession.
Like a shark lurking In the murky depths of the 2,000 page Healthcare bill, there is a provision for the ATF to have access to the proposed health database of everyone’s personal health records. I expect this is with the intention of enabling the ATF to confiscate the privately-owned firearms of anyone being treated or having been treated for stress, depression, etc. This will expand over the entire population the tactic now being used against veterans through the Veterans’ Disarmament Act.
Too many Congressmen, like sucker fish clinging to a shark, know not and care not what legislation they cling to - assuming where “the shark” goes there will be plenty for them. The morality of voting for legislation which they have not read is more reprehensible because at least sucker fish do not swear solemn oaths.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people (you and I) to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
The Second Amendment is quite clear the word “people” means people and the word “infringed” means infringed. A major argument against privately owned firearms is based on the meaning of the word “people.” Those who assert the word refers to only military/police personnel and not private citizens ignore the fact that the word “people” in the First Amendment, if so interpreted, would mean that only the military or police would have freedom of speech, press, religion, etc. We can see that such an interpretation is nonsense.
The right of the people to be well-armed means:
Those who like to target shoot may target shoot
Those who like to hunt may hunt
Those who wish to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property from those who would do them harm have a God-given right to defend themselves.
The Founding Fathers, however, had a much broader intention in mind. The purpose of the Second Amendment, although including the above, is primarily intended to be the last recourse of freedom in the event our government turns against those American people who do not wish to go along with radical change, but rather wish to continue adhering to the principles in the Constitution that limit government and thereby preserve freedom and prosperity. The Second Amendment is the last stand of freedom from tyranny this side of God’s Divine Intervention.