Gun Owners of America – by Erich Pratt
There’s an old adage that says: “When you’ve dug yourself into a hole, stop digging.”
Texas Senator John Cornyn — the second most powerful Senator in Washington — is a traditionally pro-gun friend who made a big mistake by sponsoring a bad gun control bill.
But, rather than admitting that he made a mistake, he is digging in — and, in the process, becoming a vocal advocate for gun control.
It should tell you something that Cornyn’s “Fix NICS” cosponsors include these gun control crazies: Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
You may remember that Sen. Murphy is the guy who put the infamous item on social media arguing that God doesn’t listen to gun owners’ prayers.
Well, now Murphy is publicly arguing that the Cornyn “Fix NICS” bill is the most important gun control in a long time, stating: “The Fix NICS Act is the most important piece of bipartisan guns legislation since Manchin-Toomey…. Reforms aren’t window dressing. Big deal.”
The goal of the Cornyn-Feinstein-Murphy-Schumer bill is to force every single potential NICS name to be sent to the FBI’s NICS system.
It was prompted by reports that the Air Force did not send the name of the Sutherland Springs shooter to NICS — even though he certainly could have gotten a firearm in a wide variety of ways, even if he had been in NICS, and even though his carnage was stopped by the real solution to violence … a good guy with a gun.
The problem is that, because of this isolated horror story, the Cornyn bill could add the names of millions of additional law-abiding Americans to NICS.
You already know of the 257,000 veterans who have lost their rights because of a bad experience in Iraq.
You already know that 95% of NICS denials are “false positives.”
And you probably also know that “Fix NICS” would require that the rolls of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and ObamaCare be trolled for recipients with PTSD, ADHD, or Alzheimer’s — that is, people who have had guardians appointed.
What you may not know is that the SECOND LARGEST CATEGORY of prohibited persons is “fugitives from justice” — and that a good portion of these are Americans who have UNPAID TRAFFIC TICKETS.
The Department of Justice reported in 2012 that 19.1% of denials (13,862) were as a result of being a “fugitive from Justice.” That category sounds ominous until you consider that unresolved traffic issues are one of the most common forms of bench warrants that can result in your becoming a “fugitive from justice.”
At Gun Owners of America, we frequently see gun owners who are denied for no apparent reason — or for the slightest reasons (like traffic offenses).
Take Ryan, who was denied a gun purchase by NICS. Upon appealing his denial, he said, “the only thing [my attorney] can find is that i have a bench warrent [sic] from Ohio for failure to appear for a traffic ticket.”
Or take this gun buyer who, in posting to a “General Firearms Forum,” said he was denied and, upon appeal, “got a letter in the mail saying I had an outstanding warrant for a traffic ticket out of state from 6 years ago.”
So don’t be fooled by lying legislators who say they want to expand NICS to reach hard-core criminals, when they’re really going after speeders.
The dirty little secret of NICS is that hundreds of thousands of people in the database are law-abiding Americans who did nothing wrong, unless you count “service to your country” and/or “speeding.”
And many of the names which the “Traffic Ticket Gun Ban” would add would largely fall into these categories.
There is no reason why the second most powerful senator in the country — Texas Senator John Cornyn — should be leading a gun control charge.
Instead, the Senate should be taking up concealed carry reciprocity instead!
Sadly, Senator Cornyn is saying that he wants to push gun control first, and then get to concealed carry later.
But what the Senator is ignoring is this: If gun control passes into law, he will have lost any leverage he had to score a pro-gun victory with his seminal reciprocity bill.
Thanks so much for your help.
In Liberty,
Erich Pratt
Executive Director
“…Texas Senator John Cornyn — the second most powerful Senator in Washington — is a traditionally pro-gun friend who made a big mistake by sponsoring a bad gun control bill….”
No, Mr. Pratt (author). YOU made a big mistake by believing he was a pro-gun friend and not just another lying politician. NO politician wants us armed, because they’re in danger of having their necks stretched.
These idiots who hold this undying faith that the system can be fixed from within are getting on my nerves. It’s as if we’re dealing with naive school children who’ll believe anything, and are too young to learn from history.
They’re clinging to hope that just isn’t there, and it’s time they realized it.
And didn’t I tell you a week ago that the discussion of problems in the NICS system would result in a new second article denial system?
That I believe you did
Personally ,Im wondering what its going to take, to make this thing go hot
Won’t be long. All they have to do is one of three things–steal SS/MC/Medicaid and NIRP (negative interest rate policy) because to most people it’s all about the pocketbook; force LBQGT or whatever on everyone and outlaw true believe in God and Christ; truly enforce all laws and I mean ALL LAWS based on the Talmud. When a high percentage of Gentiles (Christian or not…see Noahide 2, believers in Christ shall be put to death) are murdered is when it’s over for the criminal psycho elites. Folks, these monsters are gonna have to show how monster they are to everyone, not just true Christians and not just true believers in Liberty. Because what these psychos do not understand is that they can only go so far, but since psychopaths NEVER understand that…
Cornyn does NOT represent Texans nor any American National. Cornyn has put a big fat target on his back along with anyone else who had the gall to allow a discussion of my right to have, keep and bear arms enter in their pea brain.
Communists are bad, very bad!
“There’s an old adage that says: “When you’ve dug yourself into a hole, stop digging.”
They can’t.
They just KNOW there’s one more grain of gold SOMEWHERE in that damn hole.
“You may remember that Sen. Murphy is the guy who put the infamous item on social media arguing that God doesn’t listen to gun owners’ prayers.”
He’s right.
HIS ‘god’ doesn’t.
“The dirty little secret of NICS is that hundreds of thousands of people in the database are law-abiding Americans who did nothing wrong, unless you count “service to your country” and/or “speeding.”
No, the ‘dirty little secret’ is one that these stupid sheeple FAIL to comprehend…
“Shall not be infringed”… PERIOD!!!!!
Goddamn right, and it is obvious Erich Pratt has no problem going past that period.
Can’t fix stupid, Henry.
Leave it to a Texas-owned-slave-to-the-elites (and Christian Zionist to boot) to put BS “law enforcement” above gun rights…unpaid traffic tickets, eh? Like the nonsense “click it or ticket” crap that put me in jail for three days for “failure to appear”… Because folks, that’s the only way they really can (think) they can take our guns away. but here is what this idiot Cornyn doesn’t realize–all this will do in Texas (esp. my neck of Texas where 90 percent of the population owns guns, including millenials) is this–a cop stops you for “not wearing a seat belt” and the next thing you know (in this concealed carry state), the cop is shot and killed. Good plan, Cornyn!
They are trying everything and anything to take away our guns and even have the USA supreme court in their pockets as the refuse to hear and or rule on anything that has to do with the 2nd amendment which ultimately means gun owners will become outlaws. If hey get their way, they will have a Constitutional Convention which will strike down the 2nd amendment as we have no recourse after appealing to the USA Supreme court and will be at their whim ::( as you can trust the Constitutions has already been re-written and they are waiting for the right opportunity to eviscerate it—–which in the long run, in my opinion will result in another civil war, which is okay as long as we remember who we are fighting against and don’t fight each other….REMEMBER: The patriot act was already pre-written before they voted to put it in place, same as the new Constitution they have pre-written
“… in my opinion will result in another civil war, which is okay as long as we remember who we are fighting against and don’t fight each other.”
Idiot!
We WOULD be fighting each other in a CIVIL WAR. You obviously fail to comprehend the difference between a CIVIL WAR and a REVOLUTION.
btw… DID YOU ANSWER HENRY’S QUESTION???
get a life and learn to comprehend and keep your hatred to yourself
#1. “get a life…”
I have one. If you want to know exactly what my agenda is, you’ll have to read it for yourself… it’s specifically stated in the article below…
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/big-pharmas-lies-exposed-cancer-is-curable/19239/
btw, SKYWALKER, exactly what have YOU done for the benefit of your fellow man?
#2. “… learn to comprehend…”
I used to read voraciously as a child. Whenever I came across words I didn’t know, I went straight to the dictionary. Luckily, my parents sent me to a Catholic school, where I received a far better education than my friends did in public school. When we were tested before graduating 8th grade, my score in reading comprehension & spelling were at a third year COLLEGE (NOT high school) level.
I’d bet the farm that my comprehension skills far exceed ANYTHING you’re capable of.
#3. “… keep your hatred to yourself…”
Exactly WHAT part of this do you OBVIOUSLY fail to discern…
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Unless you can produce a contract with MY signature on it, verified by TWO witnesses and a Notary Public, then you have ZERO authority to demand ANYTHING concerning my unalienable right to free speech. In other words…
“I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means “no”.”
Skywalker,
You need to understand the Bill of Rights. If you did, you would know that the 9th Article makes it absolutely clear that no authority can be created in the Constitution or any charter, state constitution, or contract, relying on its power as authority to infringe to any degree upon our absolute rights, as described and as to be defined by we the people. The Supreme Court CANNOT define, regulate, or change our guaranteed rights to any degree as they simply do not have the authority as it is forbidden by the 9th Article. The Bill of Rights cannot be changed or altered in any way through any notion of Continental Convention as the 9th Article says the Constitution cannot contain any authority to change the Bill of Rights.
You say 2nd Amendment. Again you just don’t know what you are talking about.
Our rights to our arms was not an amendment to the Constitution, it is absolute factual law as the 2nd Article to our Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is the 1st Amendment to the only lawful Constitution to exist as non-altered. The Bill of Rights contains ten articles. The 9th Article declares absolute that no power in the Constitution can be construed, that is interpreted as having any authority, to change, alter, or amend the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, which is the Bill of Rights and it’s ten articles.
We are under occupation, just like we were back in 1775. Our rights were established as absolute at the barrel of a gun, with the absolute understanding that they must be maintained as the absolute law at the barrel of a gun.
Our stand is clear, we enforce the 9th Article of our Bill of Rights and destroy the assertion that our rights can be dismissed, using the 2nd Article to our Bill of Rights, which gives us the means to enforce the 9th Article.
This is reality and all other contentions are irrelevant because without our rights we become subjects, serfs, peasants, peons, and coulees. And what we think or what we want is absolutely irrelevant.
Sorry sir: i do fully understand the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights however if as what you say is true, States like California, Connecticut, New York and others would have no standing and would not be able to do what they are doing to gun rights, innate or otherwise—-They play the legalize game with us because the USA is a corporation and essentially that being so, the Constitution has been usurped, (In law, an absolute defence is a factual circumstance or argument that, if proven, will end the litigation in favor of the defendant. … Another characteristic of an absolute defence is that, once it is pleaded and proven, it is not subject to mitigation or collateral attack.) [yet gun rights laws are constantly under collateral attack, hence no absolutes—You say; “The Bill of Rights is the 1st Amendment to the only lawful Constitution to exist as non-altered. The Bill of Rights contains ten articles. The 9th Article declares absolute that no power in the Constitution can be construed, that is interpreted as having any authority, to change, alter, or amend the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, which is the Bill of Rights and it’s ten articles.” The 1st amendment is not inclusive of the rest of them nor does it address God given rights./birth rights as a human being. Otherwise there would be no issue and we would have never had to have a conversation about gun rights-0——-However activist judges, congress people etc are re-writing our rights out of existence by opinion addendum’s—And it is apparent as you stated” ” what we think or what we want is absolutely irrelevant.” Is essentially that under their rules, opinions, mind think and eyes
Is it that you cannot read and interpret or are you intentionally being obtuse with me? Here, I will lay it out in front of you like I would a six year old.
The 1st Amendment to the Constitution is not “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
In the only lawful Constitution, which was the original, the 1st Amendment was the Bill of Rights, et.al. That is to say, the 1st Amendment to the original contained ten articles, that is ten statements in fact, and each was not a single amendment to the Constitution. The 1st Amendment was the entire Bill of Rights, that the 9th Article says cannot be amended or changed in any way because the 9th Article forbids any authority to exist in the Constitution that can alter the Bill of Rights. And the 10th Article, which is absolutely not the 10th Amendment, says that what is forbidden on a federal level is also forbidden on a state level. This is absolute law, written in absolute fact. It can’t be touched.
Everything else in the Constitution can be altered through amendment, but the Bill of Rights cannot, because of the 9th Article. And any other alteration, hence amendment to the Constitution cannot contain any authority to alter the Bill of Rights, which is ten articles that is the 1st Amendment to the only legal Constitution, because any alteration to the original to create any authority that would violate the Bill of Rights is null and void, as commanded by the 9th Article.
This ain’t rocket science. Our fight is to enforce the 9th Article upon the federal government and 10th Article on the states, using the 2nd Article. Every other issue is irrelevant because without our Bill of Rights and common law courts to enforce them in, we are reduced to chattel property with zero authority. This is why the true founders of this country fought.
I have already made this clear and your arguments are nonsense and without merit, unless you are going to tell me that you are going to acquiesce to the removal of your common law courts and your Bill of Rights, and hence mine in the doing.
Now what is it going to be?
I wonder if this guy understands that period at the end of the second amendment?
That would be the 2nd Article to the 1st amendment, Mark. 🙂
LOL
“…-for that matter you’re not me and don’t count—matter of fact you suffer in the intellectual aspect and always have tried to scapegoat others for your short coming…”
Wow… after reading THIS absolutely INANE comment, I’ve come to the inescapable conclusion that you’re OBVIOUSLY far too severely RETARDED for any SANE person to have a normal conversation with.
That being the case, go play on the freeway.
Preferably during rush hour.
idiot
This is a reply to a ghost comment, for any who are wondering.
Don’t know if Henry deleted it, or that @ssclown (him, likely).