Give up Your Rights
You know, there are a few things that I have taken for granted most of my life.
One is that my individual freedom was secure by the constitution; another is the fact that if I so wished, I could buy and keep any amount of guns I wanted. I don’t really hunt much anymore, but I do like guns. It makes sense to me that guns do not kill people, people do. So I have never seen a problem with them.
However, I have been hearing about this new bill (HR 2640) that the House of representatives has passed. In effect, it removes the right of many, many veterans to own a gun. That is not how they describe it, but that is the way it will work. To make it even worse, The NRA, an organization that we used to trust to keep watch on 2nd amendment rights, has agreed to and supports it.
Reading about this has incensed me so much I have written the NRA, my senators and a few other senators.
By this bill, anyone that has been diagnosed with PTSD, or born with certain personality problems can not own a gun. They plan to give all the medical records and psychological profiles to the FBI. I supposee they will then decide who is good and who is bad.
Here is the web address to a better description of the new bill.

http://noworldsystem.com/2007/09/26/veterans-disarmament-act-to-bar-vets-from-owning-guns/

After reading this, it makes you wonder a hell of a lot about what is going on. I think problems like PTSD are very common and is caused by many different things other than military action. What about a cop? The police have many personal problems just like the rest of us. Will they take guns away from them because they have been trained and have seen violence? A woman that has been abused by her husband could have it also. Will she be banned?
Maybe their basic idea on this bill initially was a good one. However, they have turned it into a monster that will strip rights away from us, the individual, law-biding, taxpaying, voter.
I have a real problem with this. In my opinion, the government does not have a right to curtail what is guaranteed to me by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. That is the main reason these were written in the first place. They were written to protect the rights of the American Citizen from the government itself. Now they are trying to rewrite it all for the benefit of politicians, government, and their “special purpose” lobbyists.
Maybe Islam and the terrorists are not our real enemy? Maybe it is our own government.
Please read the information at the above link, think about it. By trying to scare everyone with terrorism they started homeland "security". They took away our privacy, they can now bust into your house without a warrant, and now they want the guns. If they do get all guns, no one will be able to defend the constitution from her enemies at home and within the government. Terrorism comes in different disguises.