Ever since taking office, President Barack Obama has tried desperately to convince gun owners and sportsmen that he supports the Second Amendment. But actions speak louder than words, and Obama’s latest budget proposal contains numerous sneak attacks aimed at the heart of our firearm freedoms.
For example, NRA members and gun owners fought hard for a law to ban government agencies like the Centers for Disease Control from using our tax dollars to produce blatant anti-gun propaganda. Obama wants to kill it in his budget.
We fought hard for a law to ban the Obama administration from spending our tax dollars on illegal schemes like Operation Fast and Furious, which funneled thousands of guns to violent Mexican drug cartels. Obama wants to kill it in his budget.
We fought hard to protect the Federal Flight Deck Officer program, which allows armed, trained commercial airline pilots to serve as the last line of defense should terrorists breach the cockpit and attempt another 9/11-style attack. Obama wants to slash the funding for this potentially life-saving program in half.
Perhaps he doesn’t have the money to protect airline passengers because he spent it all sending guns to Mexico.
We fought hard for a law that prevents the Obama White House from spending our tax dollars to ban shotguns and to stop historic and collectible firearms from being imported into the United States. Obama wants to kill both of these in his budget.
Obama’s budgetary assault on our gun rights doesn’t stop there. For years gun owners have been buying and recycling our military’s spent brass as a way to keep the cost of firearm ownership down. Not anymore. If Obama gets his way with the budget, all of this brass will be melted at taxpayers’ expense.
You have to ask yourself: If Obama is so serious about protecting our gun rights, what’s so wrong with stopping government agencies from using our tax dollars to attack our Second Amendment rights?
With innocent lives being cut short on both the U.S. and Mexican side of our border, why would Obama go out of his way to reject a ban on funding for illegal operations like Fast and Furious?
The answer is simple. Everything Barack Obama says about protecting the Second Amendment is a bald-faced lie. He will use every weapon at his disposal — including our hard-earned tax dollars — in his mission to destroy our Second Amendment freedoms.
The Second Amendment is America’s first freedom, because it’s the one freedom that guarantees all of our precious liberties. Barack Obama’s values have never been, and will never be, compatible with this freedom. His latest budget proposal proves it.
Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.
Source: The Daily Caller
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“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” –Thomas Jefferson – It was never about hunting!!
It is the freedom of speech that guarantees our other freedoms, not the freedom to kill one another. Look it up.
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Excellent piece Terry, going to use, J.C. Thanks..
walthe310 obviously has his or her head up a deep dark place.
The 2nd amendment guarantees all other rights, including the right to free speech. Without that right, you are immediately relegated a subject of those who either have the right or ignore the law.
walthe310 needs to “look up” Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot instead of continuing to live in a vacuum of idiocy where reality is optional.
If you look at the Country of Switzerland, you will find that everyone owns a gun and the crime rate is less than 2%.
The original purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure every American can posess firearms to not only defend themselves and families, but establish a malitia guarded with the responsibility of the safety of the country against ALL enemies- even if it includes politicians or our leaders. It allows the country a “back-up” military into which the security of our country, our leaders, and our way of life can be guarded. It is this “back-up”, or “last chance” ability that is being targeted. He has control of the military, albeit illegally, and he is trying to insure there are no other obsticals. The Second Amendment is about the biggest obstical he has. Wake up America- you have been asleep too long. It’s time to stand together.
We are the last line of defence. Those that don’t see this are either blind or are Progressives.