Because of the Sandy Hook massacre, gun rights, gun laws, the second Amendment of the United States Constitution has become a vital subject of a national dialogue. These discussions have become severely tainted by the NRA to deceive and mislead citizens to believe that the Second Amendment grants far reaching gun rights which do not legally exist.
The Second Amendment states, "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." This language does not provide a constitutional guarantee to individuals to bear arms. The NRA has fabricated a fictional Second Amendment right that has permitted the proliferation of all manners of dangerous weapons. It is an endorsement that has gun manufacturers making enormous profits ($4.3 Billion in 2011).
In a statement by several former U.S. Attorney Generals published in the Washington Post in 1992: "For more than 200 years, the federal courts have unanimously determined that the Second Amendment concerns only the arming of the people in the service of an organized state militia: It does not guarantee immediate access to guns for private purposes. The nation can no longer afford to let the gun lobbies' distortion of the constitution cripple every reasonable attempt to implement an
effective national policy toward guns and crime." Former Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger in 1991 referred to the NRA Second Amendment myth as "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by any special interest group that I have ever seen in my life time." History repeats itself. The opinions of these distinguished legal scholars have had no bearing on NRA propaganda that has continued unabated. The sad fact is that elected officials refuse to correct the myth while gun deaths and massacres escalate even with public outcries, but no meaningful legislation.
The statistics of lost life is evident by comparing death in foreign wars and firearms, deaths of our citizens. In all foreign wars during our history about 650,000 soldiers died. In the last 45 years since the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King (1968), there have been 1.3 million deaths in the U.S. caused by fire arms. The fraud perpetrated by the NRA and endorsed by elected officials is linked to these deaths. The blood of thousands upon thousands of Americans have permanently stained the hands of the NRA. How did the NRA gain such influence? Steve H. Tokarski, Publisher
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