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I wanted to take the liberty of sharing the following letter that I recently sent to our NM Governor with you regarding the gun control measures currently being proposed by our NM Lawmakers:

January 18, 2019

Honorable Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham:

Congratulations on your recent election as our New Mexico Governor.

I am writing you today because in your opening day speech to New Mexico State Lawmakers you called on them to pass various gun control proposals that you supported on the campaign trail and which have been subsequently filed in the New Mexico Legislature.  

You also stated that “hunters, sportsmen and responsible gun owners also recognize the need for New Mexico to take steps toward smart, effective gun violence prevention...”, implying that the gun community supports the restrictive measures outlined below:

House Bill 8, so-called "universal background check" legislation sponsored by Representative Debra Sarinana, would ban all private firearms sales between law-abiding individuals. Gun owners will be forced to pay undetermined fees and obtain government approval before selling firearms to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers, or fellow hunters, competitive shooters and gun club members. This proposal will have no impact on crime and is unenforceable without gun registration.

House Bill 35, sponsored by Representative Miguel Garcia, would require federal firearm licensed dealers to pay the state $200 annually to establish a system for the Department of Public Safety to run stolen gun checks on any used firearm an FFL purchases.  While FFLs and gun owners support getting stolen firearms off the street, a functional process that allows them to conduct such checks in real time needs to be worked out in advance of any such mandate.  And the state, rather than small business owners, should finance such a public safety initiative.

House Bill 40, sponsored by Representative Miguel Garcia, would require criminal records checks on private firearms sales at gun shows – a perennial target of the gun control crowd, even though studies show that these events are not a source of crime guns.

House Bill 83, extreme risk protection order or "red flag" legislation sponsored by Representative Damon Ely, would authorize the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding -- prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter evidence -- would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property.

House Bill 87, sponsored by Representative Deborah Armstrong expands the state’s “prohibited person” firearm law by purportedly incorporating federal firearm disqualifications. The bill would prohibit individuals convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanor crimes or who are subject to a domestic violence protective order from purchasing or possessing a firearm, with violations being a criminal offense. However, the bill goes beyond the prohibited categories in federal law in several significant ways. The state law definition of “household member” – unlike federal law – specifically includes a person who is or has been a continuing personal relationship, which applies to dating or intimate partners who have never lived together. The bill would include, as firearm-prohibiting offenses, nonviolent misdemeanors with no physical contact between the parties (like harassment by telephone or email, or criminal damage to the property or jointly owned property of a “household member”). Unlike federal law, this bill would require anyone subject to a protective order to surrender any firearms they own, possess, or control to law enforcement within 48 hours of the order. Not only does this bill impose a mandatory surrender, it authorizes law enforcement to seize any guns that are in plain sight or are discovered pursuant to a lawful search. Similar legislation had passed the Legislature in 2017 but was vetoed by Gov. Susana Martinez. Significantly, the 2017 legislation contained other options for affected parties to comply with the firearm surrender requirement, including storing their guns with licensed firearm dealers, or transferring the guns to a qualified third party. These key alternatives are not contained in this bill.

House Bill 130, sponsored by Representative Linda Trujillo, would make gun owners criminally and civilly liable if a child gains unsupervised access to an unsecured firearm.  New Mexico already has a first-degree felony child abuse statute on the books to hold adults accountable for putting children's lives or health at risk in any manner. The tools exist to charge and prosecute parents or guardians in appropriate cases. Education is the key to protecting gun owners and their kids, not a state mandate on how one stores a firearm in his or her home.

While nobody is more adamant about preventing violent crime than gun owners and sportsmen, we know that the way to accomplish this is not through intrusive, ineffective and unenforceable gun control schemes, as revealed and/or documented in the following recent article and/or report, which states in part:

“Earlier this month, the Department of Justice published updated numbers on how guns used and found at the scenes of state and federal crimes were obtained, and the American people will be shocked to know that criminals still don’t like to follow gun laws.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) survey was conducted in 2016 and reported that an estimated 287,400 prisoners possessed a gun in 2016 while they committed the crimes for which they were imprisoned.

Overall, it turns out that the vast majority of them didn’t obtain their firearms from a retail source, and fewer than one percent of them got them at a gun show. And a lot of them got their weapons illegally…..”

New gun crime numbers are bad news for the gun control lobby!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On January 17, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/new-gun-crime-numbers-are-bad-news-for-the-gun-control-lobby/

Additionally, I am extremely concerned, as should every New Mexico resident, about the disturbing information that was revealed in the following recent article, which states in part:

“The Washington Examiner on Wednesday reported that some ranchers near the southern border in New Mexico say they have discovered Islamic prayer rugs on their property in recent months.

A female rancher, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation from criminal cartels, told the Examiner, “There’s a lot of people coming in not just from Mexico.”

“People, the general public, just don’t get the terrorist threats of that,” she added. “That’s what’s really scary. You don’t know what’s coming across. We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal. It’s not just Mexican nationals that are coming across.”

The rancher lives in the remote southwestern corner of the state near a tiny town called Animas. The nearest municipality of any size in Hidalgo County is Lordsburg, the county seat where a U.S. Border Patrol station is located, some 95 miles north of the border.

With no local police department in Animas, local residents rely on the County Sheriff’s Office and Border Patrol agents for their law enforcement needs, but given the fact that so few law enforcement resources are available in the area, many residents — including the rancher — have armed themselves and rely on friends and neighbors for support in times of need….”

New Mexico Border Ranchers: We Found Prayer Rugs on Our Property, ‘It’s Unreal’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On January 16, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/new-mexico-border-ranchers-found-prayer-rugs-property-unreal/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=patriotupdate&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

I hope that you and our New Mexico’s lawmakers take into account the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above recent article as you consider any additional gun control measures and/or laws as a means of preventing violent crimes knowing that the way to accomplish this is not through intrusive, ineffective and unenforceable gun control schemes, as meticulously documented in the above article and/or report.

Looking forward to hearing from your office regarding this extremely concerning issue.

Please feel free to contact me at my email address.

Thank you for your continued honorable service to our State and Country/Republic, not only as a former NM U.S. Representative, but now as our Governor.

God Bless you and your family.

Respectfully,  

Jake L. Martinez

Note:  The following recent articles and/or reports relate to my above recent letter to our NM Governor:

House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee Passes Bloomberg Anti-Gun Agenda on a 3-2 Vote!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 25, 2019:

On Thursday evening, the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee voted to sail through multiple bills backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg. The following bills were supported by Representatives Liz Thomson (D-Albuquerque) House District 24, Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe) House District 46, and Angelica Rubio ( D-Las Cruces) House District 35. 

House Bill 8: "Universal" Background Checks - Sponsored by Representative Debra Sarinana, would ban all private firearms sales between law-abiding individuals. Gun owners would be forced to pay undetermined fees and obtain government approval before selling firearms to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers, or fellow hunters, competitive shooters and gun club members. This proposal will have no impact on crime and is unenforceable without gun registration.

House Bill 40: Background Checks at Gun Shows: Sponsored by Representative Miguel Garcia, would require criminal records checks on private firearms sales at gun shows - a perennial target of the gun control crowd, even though studies show that these events are not a source of crime guns.

House Bill 83: Extreme risk protection order or "red flag" legislation sponsored by Representative Daymon Ely, would authorize the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding -- prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter evidence -- would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property.

House Bill 87: Domestic Violence & Firearm - by Representative Deborah Armstrong expands the state's "prohibited person" firearm law by purportedly incorporating federal firearm disqualifications. The bill would prohibit individuals convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanor crimes or who are subject to a domestic violence protective order from purchasing or possessing a firearm, with violations being a criminal offense. However, the bill goes far beyond the categories currently included in federal law, in addition to requiring firearm seizure.  

We would like to thank Representative Gregg Schmedes (R-Tijeras) and Representative Candy Ezzell (R-Roswell) for voting against these bills.

Additionally, The Senate Public Affairs Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 8, so called "universal” background checks Sponsored by Senator Richard Martinez (D) and Peter Wirth (D) on a vote of 4-3. Senators Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D), Liz Stefanics (D), Antoinette Lopez (D), and Jeff Steinborn (D) all voted for the bill.

We want to thank Senators Candace Gould (R), Craig Brandt (R), and Stuart Ingle (R) for voting against this bill.

NEXT STEPS: The next stop for the House bills that passed is the House Judiciary Committee. The next stop for Senate Bill 8 is the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Source Link:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190125/house-consumer-and-public-affairs-committee-passes-bloomberg-anti-gun-agenda-on-a-3-2-vote

Last night, Bloomberg-backed SB8, "Universal" Background Check Legislation, Passed Senate Judiciary Committee on a Party-line 6-4 Vote!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On January 31, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190131/last-night-bloomberg-backed-sb8-universal-background-check-legislation-passed-senate-judiciary-committee-on-a-party-line-6-4-vote

New Mexico: Bloomberg-Backed Gun Control to be Heard Tomorrow in Committee!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 6, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190206/new-mexico-bloomberg-backed-gun-control-to-be-heard-tomorrow-in-committee

New Mexico: House Committee to Consider Gun Control Legislation Tomorrow!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 11, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190211/new-mexico-house-committee-to-consider-gun-control-legislation-tomorrow

Don’t impose New York-style gun control laws here!-Posted on The Santa Fe New Mexican-By Barbara Rumpel-On February 4, 2019:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/don-t-impose-new-york-style-gun-control-laws-here/article_4157a467-8e12-590b-8d0e-ca0789bc0b03.html

New Mexico governor urges action on gun background checks!-Posted on KOB4-By The Associated Press-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/politics-news/new-mexico-governor-urges-action-on-gun-background-checks/5246693/?cat=513

Controversial gun control bill passes House, heads to Senate!-Posted on KOB4-By Marian Camacho-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/house-bill-83-passes-house-gun-control/5246199/

New Mexico: Chambers Trade Legislation to Criminalize Private Firearm Transfers!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190215/new-mexico-chambers-trade-legislation-to-criminalize-private-firearm-transfers

New Mexico Action Needed! - House Committee to Consider New York Style Gun Control Legislation on Tuesday!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 23, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190223/new-mexico-action-needed-house-committee-to-consider-new-york-style-gun-control-legislation-on-tuesday

New Mexico Action Needed: House Committee Passes New York Style Gun Control Legislation!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On February 27, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190227/new-mexico-action-needed-house-committee-passes-new-york-style-gun-control-legislation

New Mexico Update: Multiple Gun Bill Hearings Scheduled for Saturday!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 1, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190301/new-mexico-update-multiple-gun-bill-hearings-scheduled-for-saturday

New Mexico county declares itself 'Second Amendment Sanctuary County' to protest gun law:  Some law enforcement officers thinks the law is a bad idea!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Stephen Sorace | Fox News-On February 14, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-mexico-county-votes-to-become-second-amendment-sanctuary-in-protest-of-gun-control-legislation

10,000-Resident County Stands up to Entire State as Lawmakers Push Crippling Gun Control Law!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Kara Pendleton-On February 15, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/10000-resident-county-stands-state-lawmakers-gun-control-laws/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=rightalerts&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=ttp

San Juan, Lincoln, Eddy latest to become Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties!-Posted on KOB4-By Marian Camacho-On February 20, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/san-juan-county-second-amendment-sanctuary-county/5252446/?cat=504

New Mexico Counties Vote To Become ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties’!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On February 22, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/new-mexico-counties-vote-to-become-second-amendment-sanctuary-counties/

Gun background check bill headed to governor for signature!-Posted on KOB4-By The Associated Press-On March 5, 2019:

https://www.kob.com/politics-news/gun-background-check-bill-headed-to-governor-for-signature-/5267441/?cat=504

Second Amendment Sanctuary County Movement Gaining Momentum!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On March 6, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/31663-second-amendment-sanctuary-county-movement-gaining-momentum?vsmaid=3690&vcid=7778

New Mexico: Senate Concurs on New York-Style Gun Control Legislation, Sends to the Governor’s Desk!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 7, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190307/new-mexico-senate-concurs-on-new-yorkstyle-gun-control-legislation-sends-to-the-governors-desk

New Mexico’s Democrat Governor Signs Bill to Criminalize Private Gun Sales!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins!-On March 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/09/new-mexicos-democrat-governor-signs-bill-to-criminalize-private-gun-sales/

25 of New Mexico’s 33 Counties Declare ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary’ Status!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By AWR Hawkins!-On March 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/10/25-new-mexicos-33-counties-declare-2nd-amendment-sanctuary-status/

New Mexico: Senate Committee Scheduled to Consider “Red Flag” Legislation Tomorrow!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 8, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190308/new-mexico-senate-committee-could-consider-red-flag-legislation-tomorrow

New Mexico: House Passes Gun Control Bill to Governor’s Desk!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 15, 2019:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190315/new-mexico-house-passes-gun-control-bill-to-governors-desk

New Mexico: Legislature Adjourns from 2019 Legislative Session – Multiple Anti-Gun Bills Defeated!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On March 16, 2019:

Today, the New Mexico Legislature adjourned from its hectic and busy 2019 Legislative session at noon.  While this session saw the passage of extreme gun control legislation, Senate Bill 8, multiple gun control bills were also defeated as the final gavel dropped, Including:

House Bill 83: Extreme risk firearm protection order or "red flag" legislation sponsored by Representative Daymon Ely, sought to authorize the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding -- prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter evidence -- would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person's home and confiscate their private property.

House Bill 130, sponsored by Representative Linda Trujillo, sought to make gun owners criminally and civilly liable if a child gains unsupervised access to an unsecured firearm. New Mexico already has a first degree felony child abuse statute on the books to hold adults accountable for putting children's lives or health at risk in any manner. The tools exist to charge and prosecute parents or guardians in appropriate cases. Education is the key to protecting gun owners and their kids, not a state mandate on how one stores a firearm in his or her home.

House Bill 35, by Representative Miguel Garcia, sought to require federal firearm licensed dealers to pay the state $200 annually to establish a system for the Department of Public Safety to run stolen gun checks on any used firearm an FFL purchases.  While FFLs and gun owners support getting stolen firearms off the street, a functional process that allows them to conduct such checks in real time needs to be worked out in advance of any such mandate.  And the state, rather than small business owners, should finance such a public safety initiative.

Senate Bill 201: Firearm Transfer Act - Sponsored by Senator Michael Padilla, sought to ban all private firearms sales between law-abiding individuals, including every gift, loan or a simple handing off of a gun to a friend at the range. Gun owners would be forced to pay undetermined fees and obtain government approval before selling or gifting firearms to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers, or fellow hunters, competitive shooters and gun club members.

Source Link:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190316/new-mexico-legislature-adjourns-from-2019-legislative-session-multiple-anti-gun-bills-defeated

Note: I believe that the information revealed in the following recent article relates to and or further supports my above recent letter to our NM Governor-You Decide:

Senate Judiciary Committee Considers How to Balance Gun Rights With Mental Health Concerns!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On March 26, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/senate-judiciary-committee-considers-how-balance-gun-rights-mental-health

Flashback: Video: Black conservative leaders discuss how the NRA was created to protect freed slaves!-Posted on YouTube.com-By DAFRUSA-On 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ

Note: I also believe that the disturbing information revealed in my above recent letter to our NM Governor, along with the other recent articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-104

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 99)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-99

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 63)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 8, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-63-1

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 64)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 27, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-64

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 86)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-86

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 94)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-94

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 95)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 17, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-95

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 96)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 25, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-96

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 97)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 31, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-97

Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 28, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/billionaire-leftists-attack-your-gun-rights

An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on August 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-communist-valerie-jarrett

What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?-Posted on WordPress.com-On January 12, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/

Letter to NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (Re: Border Security)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 14, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-border

Acts by lunatics must never result in loss of liberty for free men

By Jim Mullen

Predictably, after the last appalling act by an evil lunatic on unarmed citizens, the corrupt media and leftwing politicians are ablaze with emotional fear mongering, anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment rhetoric designed to divert attention from the facts. ​

Every tragic shooting brings the radical left and their media vultures swooping in and circling, laying siege to the latest victims. They never miss an opportunity to gain an advantage by picking the bones of victims and furthering their cause for total disarmament of Americans. Liberals’ knee-jerk response is always to disarm the innocent and make Americans more vulnerable to lunatics.

The New Democrat Party’s inherent belief is that the Second Amendment - like the rest of the Constitution - is an outmoded, living, changing document subject to progressive-liberal interpretation and alteration. Essentially, they believe our foundation was built on shifting sand.

The Founding Fathers intended that government never infringe upon a citizen's natural right to self-defense by bearing arms. Having the ability to defend themselves against all enemies and predators - including their own government - was paramount, and their intentions were unmistakably clear in other writings and letters on the meaning of the Second Amendment.

The very liberals believing in disarming Americans are flooding our streets with scum-of-the-earth, lawless hoodlums and hardened criminals who make life in this country perilous at best, and in some places - nearly all controlled by Democrats - death-defying. If this doesn’t necessitate a populace of heavily armed citizens, what does? Keeping the people poor, uneducated, and unarmed form the foundation on which tyranny is built.

There are very good reasons why the wicked attack, rape, assault, and murder the defenseless. That’s where they find easy victims and encounter the least resistance. Liberal tactics only increase lawlessness by encouraging the criminal element and assuring them that malevolence will have no foe, and innocent people will have no refuge. 

Regardless of what they write, or what they say, liberals do NOT want a debate on guns; they want a monologue! They never win any debate on merits or on facts. They use diffusion, emotions, lies, hyperbole, ridicule, and scorn. Their “commonsense, reasonable solutions” will dissolve American gun rights. The media repeat the same anti-constitutional arguments tirelessly while dismissing Second Amendment rights as antiquated and then threatening gun owners with violence, imprisonment, fines, punishing taxes, and weapon confiscation.

The anti-gun zealots try to make the case for disarming Americans with the ludicrous claim that it’s the job of police to carry guns and defend the people, making private ownership unnecessary. Thousands of Americans and tens of millions of people around the world are dead because they bought into this nonsense. Most of the mental giants ascribing to this theory are wealthy enough to afford armed guards for their own protection, or politicians protected by armed guards at taxpayers’ expense.

We must fight these people at every turn. Every small inroad erodes our constitutionally protected rights to bear arms. This process played out in countries around the world, and they found themselves unarmed and defenseless - cowering in their own homes.

The anti-constitutionalists argue that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans make the country less safe. To the idiots who believe this, let them place signs in their yards announcing their home is undefended by firearms.

Disarming this nation is the goal of most in the new Democrat Party. It has been the goal of the leftwing for decades, and they have admitted it cannot be accomplished all at once. One law, one regulation, and one court ruling at a time will finally shred the most important of our Bill of Rights. Without the Second Amendment, no other constitutional right is secure.

Armchair liberalism works perfectly in the theoretical, immature, progressive mind. They sit safely at their computers or behind their camera lens spewing hatred toward gun owners, but when reality comes knocking at their door with the slightest threat, they reach for the checkbook and hire armed men to protect their sorry butts. Witness the reaction of the (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News. They’re the brave souls that published and mapped the names and addresses of local citizens who hold legal gun permits, and when they began receiving angry responses, it was a bonanza for groups of armed guards.

Pity, we all can’t afford to hire personal protectors. Perhaps left-wingers will allow us tax deductions for the purchase of our personal security in the form of Smith & Wesson, Colt, or North American Arms.

Peddling fear is the mother’s milk of liberalism. Without promoting fear, liberal-progressives would vanish into rancid, billows of smoke. We must not allow them to reap the fruits of their hatred and fear. The despicable acts of madmen must never result in loss of liberty for free men.

Jim Mullen

                   JIMMY KIMMEL LIES ABOUT TRUMP, GUNS AND THE MENTALLY ILL

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                                                                       Daniel John Sobieski

There is a delicious sense of irony in gun-control advocate Jimmy Kimmel beefing up his armed security after falsely claiming on his late night talk show after the Las Vegas massacre that President Trump had made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns. Guns are okay to protect the liberal elites but not for the rest of us who can’t be trusted or don’t know any better.   

The same double standard exists for Democratic members of Congress who demand their constituents be disarmed even as they welcome back Rep, Steve Scalise, the victim of a shooting where a bad guy with a gun was stopped by a good guy with a gun. Many members of Congress are alive today only because Scalise, being a member of the House leadership, had his armed security detail with him

Dr. Kimmel has no way of knowing even now that the Las Vegas shooter was mentally unstable. Certainly the meticulous planning and preparation by the shooter over a long period of time would seem to indicate that while the shooter was evil, he was perfectly competent and sane. Certainly Kimmel’s charge against Trump is not true:

Noting that President Trump had offered prayers for the victims’ families, and that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, had said that this wasn’t the time for political debate, he went on: “We have fifty-nine innocent people dead. It wasn’t their time, either. So I think now is the time for political debate.” He reminded his audience that, in February, Trump had signed a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to buy guns. “The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, a number of other lawmakers who won’t do anything about this because the N.R.A. has their balls in a money clip, also sent their thoughts and their prayers today. Which is good. They should be praying. They should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country.”

Steve Scalise owes his life to the Second Amendment, which was written, not to shoot dear, but to shoot tyrants. The Second Amendment was written to protect the other nine in the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment which gives Jimmy Kimmel the right to sound like the blooming idiot he is.

What President Trump signed was a bill overturning an executive order that would tar the innocent with the broad brush of mental illness, people which included the elderly and veterans, in order to pursue the Obama administration’s gun control agenda:

Here's what happened earlier this year: Congress voted to overturn a last-minute Obama-era regulation that would give the Social Security Administration the power to revoke a person's Second Amendment rights based on whether he receives disability for a mental impairment that keeps him from working, or if he "[uses] a representative payee to help manage their benefits."

As my Washington Examiner colleague David Freddoso explained at the time, the repeal of the Obama-era regulation, "doesn't allow people to buy guns who have been properly adjudicated by a court of law as mentally ill or unstable."

The Obama-era rule was designed to take away people's rights without due process of law. It would have flagged the names of people who, for example, have an anxiety disorder or depression which keeps them from working, and who, as the SSA puts it, ‘need help in managing [their] personal money affairs,'" he added. "As the many non-political mental health and autism advocacy groups that supported the House action noted, there is no link between these factors and a propensity for violence."

The Obama administration repeatedly tried to use mental health as a means, not to make us safer, but to deny us our gun rights under the Second Amendment. Consider President’s pick of Dr. Vivek Murthy to be our Surgeon General, someone who firmly believes gun control is a health issue, something that can and should be used to gut out Second Amendment Rights. As Investor’s Business Daily editorialized during his confirmation process:

Murthy's approach to attacking the Second Amendment has been to say private ownership of firearms is a public health issue. The 37-year-old Murthy is president and co-founder of the anti-gun group Doctors for America, which advocates ObamaCare and gun control laws. His group, which has been dubbed Docs vs. Glocks, has pushed Congress to ban "assault" weapons and "high capacity" magazines.

Doctors for America has promoted the invasion of privacy by doctors by advocating they ask patients if they have guns at home, including asking children if their parents own guns. He would have doctors counsel their patients against exercising their Second Amendment rights. One wonders how private that information would remain if entered into the medical records the government would be privy to under ObamaCare.

Back in 2013 a piece of legislation called Toomey-Manchin proposed that doctors be allowed to unilaterally place a patient’s name in the background check system in a way that violated patient doctor confidentially under HIPAA as well as our Second Amendment Rights:

The Toomey-Manchin proposal contains a provision that lets a doctor add a patient to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) without ever telling the patient he or she has been added.

This would seem to violate doctor-patient confidentiality, due process and the presumption of innocence in one fell swoop.

As the Heritage Foundation reports, this "gun control legislation eliminates any (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy protection for mental health records in connection with the NICS system, leaving only what privacy protection the attorney general cares to provide."

The Obama administrations idea of keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill is based on a bizarre and discriminatory definition of who might be mentally unstable. Back in 2013 it was reported that the Veterans Administration was sending letters to vets warning them that they might be declared mentally incompetent and have their Second Amendment rights stripped unless they could prove otherwise:

The contempt by the Obama administration for our Constitution and our rights has reached a new low with news the Veterans Administration has begun sending letters to veterans telling them they will be declared mentally incompetent and stripped of the Second Amendment rights unless they can prove to unnamed bureaucrats to the contrary….

"A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as implemented at 18, United States Code 924(a)(2)," the letter reads….

While mental health is a factor in the current gun control debate and recent mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., and elsewhere have in common the questionable mental state of the shooters, to single out returning vets from Iraq and Afghanistan this way is unconscionable and unconstitutional.

As the Los Angeles Times has reported, the Obama administration woulf like to make our Social Security records part of the background check system. The move would strip some four million Americans who receive payments though a “representative payee” of their gun rights. It would be the largest gun grab in U.S. history.

A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."

There is no simple way to identify that group, but a strategy used by the Department of Veterans Affairs since the creation of the background check system is reporting anyone who has been declared incompetent to manage pension or disability payments and assigned a fiduciary.

Keeping guns out of the hands of the truly mentally unstable is a worthy goal, but it should not be used as a cause for disarming veterans who carried a weapon in defense of their country or senior systems who might need some assistance in paying their bills.

They deserve the presumption of innocence, and sanity, every bit as much as Vester Flanagan. Stripping away their Second Amendment rights in the name of mental health would be a gross injustice that would not make us safer, butwould merely create millions of unarmed victims for the next shooter with an agenda.

          Daniel John Sobieski is a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.               

By Jim Mullen

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good" -- George Washington

The anti-Second Amendment Marxist, Barack Obama, relies upon attacks by terrorists or crazed lunatics to bring cries for bigger, more powerful government to protect us. It’s the same incessant cry always heard from tyrants; give up more freedom in exchange for a promise of security. Every leftist in the country follows Obama’s lead and shamefully exploits tragic events by madmen and terrorists. Consequently, to further their political agendas they do what they do best; attack lawful American gun owners and innocent people by grandstanding and self-aggrandizing.

They use manipulative hyperbole, and emotional rhetoric to push for legislation that has proven repeatedly not only ineffective, but fatally destructive. Like vultures, these zealots immediately circle every despicable shooting by an outlaw, insane person, or terrorist, and use the tragedy and suffering of others to gain an upper hand in implementing their anti-gun tyranny.

These organized attacks are not just on firearms; they are indeed, personal attacks on every American’s freedom who dares defend themselves, their families, and their homes.

It’s obvious to even the densest anti-gun fanatic, that criminals ignore ALL gun-control laws. Therefore, it’s evident that the quest for additional limits on guns remains focused on disarming law-abiding citizens. The facts are irrefutable; restrictive gun legislation disarms or makes criminals of lawful Americans. In other words, gun control only restrains law-abiding Americans! Control of the people is the ultimate aim of all big governments.

Criminals rely on tyrannical government to disarm the public, thus allowing thugs and gangs unrestricted domination of our streets, neighborhoods, and cities. U.S. cities with the strictest gun laws have the highest crime and murder rates. Witness the Democrat-controlled cities of Chicago, Washington, DC, Detroit, Baltimore, and on, and on.

Americans must face reality; it’s apparent that over the last several years, the New Socialist Democrat Party is a mortal enemy of gun owners and the Second Amendment. It’s equally clear that further legislation amounts to placing a bull’s eye on the backs of innocent Americans gathered in gun-free zones, as well as those cowering in fear in their undefended homes.

None of the proposed laws by the fanatical left will reduce gun violence or murder rates in this country. However, under one plan, purchasing or selling a gun from a neighbor, friend, or relative, we would pay for a background check and hope for approval and blessing from the federal government. These extended background checks are another back door, roundabout attempt at registration that allows the government to know who owns guns, what type they are, and where to find them.

Not a word emanates from the mouths of Obama, or any Marxist about the real causes of crime and murder rates in this country. Most violence comes directly from inaction and misguided programs by federal, state, and local governments.

The free exercise of American rights under the Second Amendment does not cause violence.

Here are just a few of the shortcomings, incompetence, and corrupt bureaucracies of government that do result in lawless, senseless mayhem and murder:

• Failure of the liberal courts and the justice system in general to PUNISH criminals
• Failure to build more jails and prisons
• Early release and catch-and-release of criminals; including violent felons, and illegal aliens
• Plea-bargaining and reductions of sentences
• Left-wing lawmakers, state and federal, who consistently and shamefully twist, manipulate, and distort, every societal issue to bestow the victimhood label on criminals, not on real victims; innocent citizens
• Failure to address illegal aliens pouring over our border with drugs, guns, and human cargo
• Overcrowding of prisons, then release of illegals and felons to reduce the overflow
• A corrupt government-controlled educational system that, especially in the inner cities, fails to give young people even a rudimentary education and then dumps them on the streets without sufficient skills to compete in the world
• Gun-free zones that leave unarmed groups of people at the mercy of thugs or armed terrorists

For decades, few talked about long guns of any kind, rather the national discussion was on handguns. Then came the ban on scores of long guns, and Bush let the ban expire because evidence revealed the nation was no safer and there was no increase in mass killings after ten years. To leftists, firearms represent everything that’s evil. The unvarnished truth is that they believe the very existence of the Second Amendment is malevolent.

Concealed permits are under constant attack. By declaring gun-free zones and limiting where one can legally carry a weapon, tyrants hope to make it so restrictive as to make concealed permits worthless. With one such limit, only the most naïve, ignorant, and convoluted of liberal minds could imagine and implement a system of declaring schools as “gun-free zones” to prevent shootings.

Some notable quotes from Obama, the anti self-defense President, should tell everyone where the leftist-in-chief stands:

• “I am consistently on record and will continue on record as opposing concealed carry.”
• “I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities.”
• “It’s a scandal that Bush didn’t renew the ‘assault weapon' ban.”
• “If you need 19 rounds to shoot a deer, you probably shouldn’t be hunting.”

Here are some notable votes by Obama:

• Voted to uphold civil actions and lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of guns and ammunition.
• Voted to ban hundreds of common rifles and shotguns.
• Voted to uphold local gun bans in Illinois.
• Voted to uphold prosecution of people using guns in self-defense.

Obama and his Marxist cult know they cannot ban all gun rights at once any more than a boa can instantly kill and devour its prey. They do it slowly, one contraction at a time. It’s one more reason they must destroy our Constitution.

Little-by-little, one step at a time, Obama, and his ilk formulate their “reasonable rules.” Dictates which are, in reality, slow narrowing and constriction designed to squeeze the life from our Second Amendment and devour our guns.

Knowing what Obama said publicly, what’s in his writings, and knowing the history of the anti-gun radicals, does anyone believe them when they say, “Nobody is coming after your guns?” Disarming America is not a solution or answer for violence; rather it is one of the principal determining factors for the violence raging through the streets of this country. An unarmed nation is a nation on its knees, and that is exactly where the leftist tyrants want Americans.

The free exercise of American rights under the Second Amendment does not cause or exacerbate violence; It provides the same protection from evil-doers and dictatorial government envisioned by our Founders!

For one to see the tragic results of liberal politics and gun control that disarms lawful people, one needs to look at cities and states controlled by the New Democrat Socialist Party. Here, despots ban guns outright or restrict them as to make their right to own guns and defend themselves, a cruel joke. These areas throughout the country are microcosms of what liberals want for the rest of the country.

When liberal-progressive government is in control of peoples’ lives, they must keep citizens, disarmed, poor, uneducated, indoctrinated, and dependent. Take a stand against our government, the media, and the entertainment industry. Under no circumstances, allow them to cast their tyrannical, liberal, spell over this great land. Your personal safety is in YOUR hands; trust it to no one else!

Jim Mullen

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Message From The GOA (Gun Owners of America)
They call it “Misstatements”, the rest of us refer to it a lousy pile of lies one on top of another. You really have to read this in detail, remember it, and share it. The GOA pushes his lies right back into his face. Every time we have something called a "mass shooting", this clown comes out of his office before anyone knows any of the details and starts talking "mass gun control laws".
Response to the President
Created: Friday, 02 October 2015
GOA Responds to the President on the Oregon Shooting
-- Top Ten misstatements made by Obama
http://www.gunowners.org/response-to-the-president.htm

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Once again the totalitarian government of the Muslim Barak Husain Obama is embarked on a quest to degrade and destroy the second amendment and deny Americans one of their basic rights. The BATF has just announced a plan penned by the tyrant Obama to deny law abiding American citizen’s ammo for the popular AR15 rifle. The AR15 is one of the most sought after and owned sporting and target semi auto rifle in America. Owned and enjoyed by millions of citizens. It is also a preferred weapon for protection of life and family hunting and target shooting.

What the communist Democrats cannot do by legislation and legally with in the constitution is illegally being done by Obama with his endless imperial executive orders from the White House. He is continuing to show contempt for the will of the people and our Constitution! If this executive order when executed is allowed to stand and not be stopped this will be the beginning of an endless string of orders to disarm the American people." No" further tampering with the second amendment in any way should be tolerated or allowed! This issue has already been decided by the people as well as the original intent and truth in the constitution itself.

In this critical time in our history, when Obama and his communist democrat party have made their intentions known to destroy our Traditional and Constitutional Republic, we must not allow anymore of this! We will be subjugated, controlled and lose our freedoms under Obama's New World Order. When they confiscate our guns and ammunition our last resort to save America will have been taken away from us.

The communist Obama forces and the Democrats will not stop! They have shown they intend to destroy the Constitution and our American values and way of life and remake it into a Marxist state with complete obedience and control to the Marxist Totalitarian government. Obama's Imperial orders must stop now by force if necessary! He has made it known he intends to move on firearms confiscation within the next 2 years. This plan has also been leaked by Michelle Obama at various democratic fund raising events!

All Patriot citizens should ignore and not obey unconstitutional laws starting now! Anything concerning the second amendment, immigration or event illegal actions by the IRS! Call and write to your Senators and Congressmen both at state and federal level and demand they stop this illegal abuse of our constitution now! Tell them we will not follow unconstitutional laws and decrees and this will end in a force of arms as our constitution requires of us if this continues! Tell them to start doing their jobs and defend the Constitution!

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

We have since made room for many classes of Resident Alien Immigrants and have afforded them most of the rights enjoyed by citizens and yet for some that is still not enough. The crux of the immigration issue today is not as hard core as Roosevelt's position but rather centers around the question of whether or not the entry was legal and have the requirements of the visa been followed. We are still a Republic, a nation of laws, is it so much to ask of those who want to come here and share the bounty to do it legally??

Running this year for the 37th District in NJ ..all those who wish to support me please  e mail me at

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I truly believe Liberlism is a mental illness. It seems the slogans they use and the agenda they support and follow is to most normal and rational people ofensive and twisted. They seem to thrive on deception and hiding the real truth about issues.

Abortion is a topic that always is taken by political correct liberals and turned into a non violent and heroic act by the female. They will only use the term "A woman's right to choose." This is the only description of the act of abortion a Liberal will accept and use.

In response to this politically correct label and description of abortion I once asked a liberal "choose what?" The liberal looked at me and said, "you know." Have control of her body''. I replied, "control her body? And what act lets her control her body? Then the liberal said, "free choice." I replied, "and what is the result of the free choice?" The liberal could see what the truth was now and refused to talk more about it.

This is an example of the mentally ill liberal mind. When in reality the right to choose means the right to choose to murder your child! When I use this truth to debate liberals and call it murder they most always freak out and call me a terrorist. Or call me a right wing fucking idiot. Or sometimes they have actually gotten violent when I have spoken the truth about the reality of abortion. Murdering your child!......And Jesus Said:  “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. ... To practice harm to any, especially children."

Another issue I debated with liberals is a fact I thought of concerning Gun control. In a group of liberals I stated I was an NRA member and the second amendment guaranteed out right to keep and bare arms. The Government had no right to molest gun owners.

This statement immediately infuriated the liberal group! They went crazy and called me a fascist and a danger to the public. I let them rant on for about ten minutes. My response to them was this...Your whole argument is that gun owners are potential killers. You say a number of children are killed every year by firearms. A very small number but I did agree every child's life is precious.

I said to the liberals, "Now I will ask you a question. It seems you Liberals think the murder of over 50 million children killed in the mothers womb is ok! But we both just agreed every child's life is precious. So if you want to ban all firearms you should be more that happy to stop the murder of children by abortion."

 This was the liberals response to my reasoning... "You are a terrorist!"  "you are a sick right wing fanatic!" "Go to Hell!"

I rest my case. Liberals are twisted and mentally ill... also liars and deceivers!

Two NYPD cops were assassinated on Brooklyn streets by a crazed gunman who publicly bragged about his plans after shooting his girlfriend in another city.

For months I’ve been pointing out the two halves of the “Culture of Death” – the “progressive” who sees no value in the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, and the jihadi who thinks he’s going to heaven for killing the innocent. Given their collusion with each other – consciously or unconsciously, they have created a culture that is completely foreign to the natural order where it is known that “all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator…” They insist on a two class society of rulers and the slaves whose lives have no meaning.

I find it interesting that one side of this axis of evil – the “progressive” – is ever striving to disarm the citizenry. The President, the Attorney General, the Mayors of New York and Chicago, New York, California and Illinois Senators, Academia, race baiters like Al Sharpton and other radical leftists have been successful in denigrating our police forces, our borders, and the rule of law. Today, they had their comeuppance at the expense of the lives of two cops, their families and the freedoms we have enjoyed.

The other side, caliphatic jihad is sending out trained martyrs and terrorists with heaven in mind to do individual acts of murder and mayhem – all for Allah, of course. The cop killer took his own life after his despicable act. Was he martyring himself or just plain insane with hate? We may never know.

The time has come for the 2nd Amendment to receive its due respect by acknowledging every citizen (registered voter with photo ID) the right to carry. There is no way our police can protect us, no matter how “paramilitary” they become. They will always need citizen back up when the camel dung hits the fan… and it will.

A strong military and personal defense are acknowledgements of real life. How can anyone raid someone’s home or coffee shop unless he has the distinct advantage of being armed for mayhem with no one to resist him/her? They only seek to destroy the works, hopes and dreams of others. Burning and pillaging have been the work of the ignorant and misguided since the Library at Alexandria was burned to the ground.

We will do better when we make sure we have leaders who appreciate the blessings of liberty.

In the North New Jersey /New York City area, to assist and further his next years campaign in the 37th District of New Jersey. You may contact me at my e mail  jimmygencarelli@gmail.com or directly by phone 201-242-9425.....We are attempting to build a coalition of members  that are very technical and able to assist members obtain election thru aggressive campaigning next Nov 2015.

Thank you all kindly for your consideration.

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Liberals don't like this fact ....it's their cities ! it really boils down to black and Hispanic gangs in this country that run up the gun crime numbers but the liberals don't want to admit it because it is their voters, But they want to control the law abiding peoples gun rights ...and we need our guns to protect ourselves from these same thugs and our government !