The first Ten Amendments (Bill of Rights) to the United States Constitution were passed by Congress on September 25, 1789 and ratified December 15, 1791. The Second of those Amendments reads:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Infringed means to invalidate or violate.
The 2nd amendment had nothing to do with protecting hunters’ rights or the right to defend one’s self from a criminal assault. It had everything to do with maintaining the ability and weapons to overthrow a tyrannical government.
A haphazard stumbling through the writings of the Founding Fathers and the attempts of the British Empire to remove weapons and gun powder from the colonists should clarify the philosophical roots of the Second Amendment.
The Bill of Rights did not give people rights since rights are God-given. The 2nd Amendment was a declaration to government that the right to be armed and organize should not be violated or invalidated.
Since then, evil forces in America have repaetedly undermined those rights through legislation. The registration of guns, permission to carry-concealed or buy ammunition is a violation of the 2nd Amendment, activist judges to the contrary be damned.
If a permit is necessary then our right from God is denied. The right is now devalued to a privilege granted by government. The right is infringed
In America today, there are regions yielding their God-given rights to government and regions taking them back. Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill last week to eliminate the requirement to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon. In Utah it is already legal to open carry. Sadly, at one time all Americans could freely carry and carry concealed.
”With the passage of this bill, Utah joins 17 other states with some form of permitless (sic) concealed carry,” Cox said in a prepared statement on HB60. A news release from the National Association for Gun Rights hailed the legislation.
“Constitutional Carry is the simple concept that law-abiding citizens who are legally allowed to possess a handgun, should also be allowed to carry that handgun openly, or concealed, without having to pay a tax or obtain a government permit,” said the group, which describes itself as “the nation’s largest ‘no compromise’ pro-gun organization.”
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George and Sen. David Hinkins, R-Orangeville, takes effect May 5. Supporters of the new legislation, though, contend many Utahns will continue to obtain a permit. That’s because Utah has an agreement with 36 other states that recognize its permit and allows holders to legally carry within those jurisdictions.
“Our permits are reciprocated in other states. Half of our permits that are issued are to residents of other states,” said Hinkins, the Senate sponsor. Utah had issued 718,218 permits as of the end of 2020 — 427,639 to out-of-state residents and 290,579 to Utahns, according to the state Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Idaho is also an open carry state and has very liberal rules regarding concealed-carry without permit for those 18 and older. In spite of this, in Hagerman, Idaho the city council just passed a resolution making Hagerman a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary City in the event that the state legislators or Congress get any gun restricting ideas.
Since Hagerman, located in Gooding County has a Constitutional Sheriff, the resolution backed by the Sheriff will take precedent over federal or state law. The resolution says the City of Hagerman will follow the United States Constitution in respect to the 2nd Amendment and not any proposed laws made by the Utah legislature or US Congress.
Patriots in every jurisdiction need to elect Constitutional Sheriffs and pass resolutions at the city and county level to affirm local alignment with the U.S. Constitution and reject laws to undermine it.
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