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To my Government: Look up INFRINGEMENT
My husband is the finest man I’ve ever encountered. In twenty years of marriage he has never intentionally hurt my feelings one time, and I’m a handful. He is balanced, calm, deliberate and responsible. Today he got a shiny, new Concealed Carry Permit so he may “legally” carry a firearm on his person. He is very pleased. I am not.
The second amendment to the US Constitution contains one of the clearest statements you’ll ever read, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” George’s right to bear arms has been infringed, and I’m not happy about it. He was onboard ship off the coast of Beirut when the Marine barracks was bombed. He was trained very well in the use of firearms, by the US Marine Corps. He is also a corrections officer. He carries a sidearm at work, and also carries a permit to identify his permission to do so. Corrections officers are trained and retrained.
George has educated our two teenage sons in the safe and responsible use of firearms, and they’re both crack shots. We live on a lake and in the summer I spend much time at the beach. We shoot pellets from our deck, at targets between the house and the lake. We have so many targets on the lawn, I’ve seen signs on my deck that say, “DON’T SHOOT MOM!”
Believe me, this man KNOWS what he’s doing. Yet, to obtain permission to exercise what our founding fathers recognized to be a right, he had to bear the elementary instruction, expense and inconvenience of taking a course in the use of handguns. This is infringement. The fact that the government expects to KNOW who is carrying a firearm is infringement. The fact that the government enters into it at all…IS infringement.
Tags: Gun Rights, second amendment
I don’t have a CCW any more. It’s because I woke up and realized my slumber has made me participate in a socialized agenda. Government is restricted from forcing citizens to pay money to the government for a piece of paper that says I have a right. Basically, a privelege purchased so I have access to a right that was already granted to me by Grace from my creator. I had a right before “shall issue” laws existed. The 2nd Amendment is my gun permit. I used to teach CCW permit classes. I did them for free. From little old lady’s to paralyzed vets in wheel chairs, I did the classes for free. Our rights are not dependendent on whether or not we can afford them. Our rights were bought and paid for by the blood of our ancestors so we wouldn’t have to pay for them. By paying for our rights all over again under a socialized beaurocracy, we spit in the faces of those who died, sending all the king’s men back to Britian. The realestate that was granted to me by those who died will never be lost without resistence. I don’t pay for the same realestate twice. It’s too expensive!