The other day, a friend sent me a news release from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a gun owners rights organization which takes a less controversial approach than the National Rifle Association. The CCRKBA has spent much of its time fighting gun restriction laws in the courts. The news release expressed concern over the possibility that the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional majority are set to attack the right of gun owners to keep and bear arms.
I forwarded the news release to the people on my e-mail address list. This is the reply I received from one of my friends who happens to be very liberal: "Nothing like a little more [right-] wing nut propaganda. Ted Kennedy has been going to take my guns for the past 40 years and I still have them. Nothing like the politics of fear."
My lefty friend conveniently ignores the fact that Ted Kennedy and his left-wing buddies in Congress failed to succeed in their quest to restrict gun ownership only because they were stopped by the Republican and conservative Democratic members of the house and senate.
I believe the CCRKBA and gun owners have every right to be concerned about our gun onwrship rights now that the political landscape has shifted sharply to the left. That is why I am blogging the news release on this day, the day set aside to honor the military veterans who have served in our nation's wars. Here it is:
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
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NEWS RELEASE
CCRKBA ASKS DEMOCRATS: ‘HAS PARTY’S ANTI-GUN MASK COME OFF?’
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called on Democrats to "be honest" with America’s 90 million gun owners and "tell us whether your campaign claims of adherence to the Second Amendment were all lies."
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said gun owners are legitimately alarmed that president-elect Barack Obama has selected virulent anti-gun-rights Democrat Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staf f. Emanuel was "point man" on gun ban efforts for the Clinton Administration.
"Scores of Democrats, including Senator Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, assured voters over the past several months that they ‘support’ the Second Amendment," Gottlieb stated. "Well, America ’s gun owners do not merely ‘support’ the Second Amendment, we live by it every day. We value the right to keep and bear arms, and will zealously protect and defend that right, as much as we value the rest of our fundamental individual civil rights, and that is something Democrats need to understand. To think otherwise is a monumental mistake.
"Mr. Obama, whose history on gun rights is abysmal, appears to be considering his party’s most extremist gun control advocates for key positions in his administration," Gottlieb continued. "That is not a sign of goodwill toward gun owners or their rights. It’s a red flare warning of high winds and rough weather looming on the political horizon.
"Our nation is in serious trouble," he observed, "and we all need to be working together to solve our fiscal crisis and our energy problems. The fastest way to alienate tens of millions of productive, loyal and hard-working American citizens is to attack one of their constitutionally-protected civil rights.
"We wish our new president smooth sailing in his new ship of state, because we are all along for the ride," Gottlieb said. "But we caution his crew that the eyes of every American gun owner are on you. Democrats have an opportunity and an obligation to prove they mean what they have been saying about protecting the Second Amendment, or to demonstrate to the nation that they truly are the party of extremist gun control."
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