U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun control proponents across the country are planning “Recess Rallies” this weekend to press for more Second Amendment restrictions, with protests staged at or near local district offices of U.S. House or Senate members from Maine to Hawaii, and they’ll likely try to capitalize on the shootout in Philadelphia, although it represents what many believe is an example of the dismal failure of gun control laws.
A full schedule can be found here. The Recess Rallies are sponsored by the billionaire-backed Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and its offshoot, Students Demand Action.
For example, in the Pacific Northwest, a rally is slated in Portland, Ore., this Saturday and in Everett, Wash., this Sunday. Regardless of the location, such rallies often bring counter-protests by gun owners in defense of their right to keep and bear arms. Those gun owners provide an opposing view and remind the press that millions of law-abiding armed citizens have harmed nobody, and should not be penalized.
These rallies come on the heels of a report in the Washington Examiner that the House Judiciary Committee will consider new gun restrictions when it meets, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). Democrats have been calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “take up” House legislation, the newspaper reported.
The story noted that Hoyer had insisted that McConnell should ignore the National Rifle Association, asserting that “90-plus percent of Americans” want more gun control. Gun owners consistently complain that they are never included in surveys that reach this stunning statistic, and they view such data with skepticism.
“It takes no courage to put on the Senate floor a bill that is supported by 90-plus percent of Americans,” Hoyer said. “What takes courage is to look special interest groups in the eye and say enough is enough.”
Fine, gun owners contend all over social media; tell elitist-financed gun control groups that they’ve gone too far, they have eroded the Second Amendment enough. It’s time to turn things around they contend and, as Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb has repeatedly observed, “make the Second Amendment great again.”
On their website, the “Recess Rally” sponsors declare, “This August, as the Senate is back home for recess, gun sense activists are keeping the fight close to home by showing up to our senators’ district offices to demand action on passing background checks on all gun sales and a strong Red Flag law.”
However, writing at Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano turns thumbs down on the “red flag” concept, reminding readers that such laws go against the grain of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Only then, he says, can someone be deprived of their rights.
Critics argue that “red flag” laws allow gun seizures without the benefit of trial, based on the presumption that a gun owner poses a threat to himself/herself or others. Long story short, the disarmed citizen, having committed no crime, is still considered guilty until he/she proves their innocence.
“The ‘might happen’ standard of ‘red flag’ laws violates this basic principle,” Napolitano explains. “The same Supreme Court case also reflects the Kentucky long gun lesson. The people are entitled to own and possess the same arms as the government; for the same reason as the colonists did — to fight off tyrants should they seize liberty or property.”
What this weekend’s protestors apparently have chosen to overlook is the potential for abuse by government, which the Bill of Rights is supposed to prevent.
Napolitano offers this warning: “If the government can impair Second Amendment-protected liberties on the basis of what a person might do — as opposed to what a person actually did do — to show that it is doing something in response to a public clamor, then no liberty in America is safe.”
And then he concludes by asking, “Which liberty will the government infringe upon next?”
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
According to GOD Almighty and further, verified and written into the constitution, the amendments and the bill of rights, everyone of proper age and of sound mind (and not in jail or the loony farm) has the right to keep and bare arms. Our founding fathers wrote this into law because they knew that governments, over time, tend to overreach and infringe upon the rights and freedoms of the people. They had vast experience in that regard, they had to deal with England and king George, a tyrant in his own right. The colonies were not much more than organized… Read more »
Not a judge but I can and have read the U S Constitution and
as Red Flag/GVRO’s violate the 4 th. and 6 th. amendments and are thus un Constitutional.
With surgical precision they intend to usurp our rights, make what so many have died for in the name of freedom meaningless, and to trash the Constitution. Freedom is directly in the crosshairs of the enemies that seek to destroy America.
When did the Bill of Rights become the list of suggestions? Answer: When democrats decided it for you. None of these vipers have any idea of what the Constitution stands for and it’s high time to remove politicians who violate their oath of office and ban them instead of guns.
According to the LibProgs who constantly tell me what my life choices should be an even bigger threat to humanity than private ownership of a firearm they don’t like is the pending death of the planet due to carbon emissions.
If they were sincere about their concern they should consider a ban on those private multi-engine jets they buzz around in since they are far more dangerous than anyone’s AR15.
I would vote for it. Nobody NEEDS a private multi-engine jet. We have lots of airlines.
Any law promoting or approving any gun confiscation could and very likely would cause an armed conflict within the United States of America whether the second amendment is in place or removed somehow. If or when it was attempted to be enforced. At this point the second amendment remaining in place intact is inconsequential. American will just not comply to any law requiring them to give up their firearms. However we do all know that is their goal. However, it is about time all Americans learn why the second amendment was put in place as number two in the Bill… Read more »
“Reason” seems to be the underlying difference between those who want to keep and bear arms and those who are willing to over look it in order to take away our gun rights. Any judge can argue for a position and come up with an argument for said position, even if it fundamentally violates what we have codified in our Bill of Rights. We are seeing this occur now and have been for some time. We need to stop the process which has been slowly eroding our rights and sensibilities. Trump might not be doing all the things we would… Read more »
Stupid is as stupid does!
Trump is a tyrant! Trump is a racist, homophobic, nazi bigot, dictator! Let’s give all the guns to the government of Trump so we’ll be safe! The cognitive dissonance on the left is deafening.