By Richard D. Fry

Dear Senators and Congressmen from Kansas,

I know the truth. Worse, I am spreading the truth.

The federal government has no authority to regulate firearms. This is apparent from the Second Amendment:

“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.”

I have checked a historical dictionary and “infringe” means the same thing now as it did in 1791. According to Supreme Court cases going back to the early 1800s the Constitution was written so the voters could understand it:

“In interpreting this text, we are guided by the principle that “[t]he Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning.” United States v. Sprague, 282 U. S. 716, 731 (1931); see also Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 188 (1824). Normal meaning may of course include an idiomatic meaning, but it excludes secret or technical meanings that would not have been known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation.”

McDonald v City of Chicago 561 US 3025 (2010)

I am a qualified voter and in fact I do vote.

I understand what “shall not be infringed” means. Let me put it in folksy lingo; it means to keep your cotton picking hands off my guns and my ammo. The feds have been infringing this fundamental God-given right since 1934.

The federal government’s asserted authority to regulate fire arms under the Commerce clause does not hold up. Principles of construction hold that specific clauses take priority over general clauses. The Commerce Clause is a general clause the Second Amendment is a specific clause. Had the Framers wanted to allow the federal government this power they could have said “…shall not be infringed [except though the regulation of Commerce…]” or specifically mentioned firearms in the Commerce clause.

More importantly history supports this interpretation. In addition to the historical duties of the militia, under the American system of government the militia of the several states was also to counter balance and protect the states and citizens from any attempted incursion into their rights by the federal government and it standing army. In fact in federalist No. 28 Alexander Hamilton lays out a war strategy and battle plan for the states against the federal government.

The Second Amendment eliminated the primary means by which the federal government could interfere with the citizens’ personal duty and right under the principle of Allegiance and Protection to answer the call for their participation in the posse comitatus and the state’s militia including to defend against the federal government. This is a personal fundamental right.

Yes, I understand the National Guard is not the state’s militia but rather an unconstitutional national militia that answers to the beck and call of the federal government. More on this issue later.

The current discussion should not be what and how much gun control Congress is going to enact it should be how quickly will you repeal the current unconstitutional gun control laws and restore the states’ militia! Regulation of firearms is in the hands of the states exclusively.

The bible tells us: what God has joined together let no man put asunder.

My right to self-defense of myself, my family, my fellow citizens, my state and my Republic is a fundamental God given right. Federal laws which conflicts with my God given inalienable fundamental rights are immoral and ineffective. I practice moral obedience.

A friend of mine has stated “When my guns are outlawed, I will be an outlaw.” I will be an outlaw as well. But, the real outlaws and traitors will be those who under color of law set out to deprive the American people of their inalienable rights. (I also know what “inalienable” means.)

My friend has a motto:

“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It”

All good Americans are duty bound to follow this motto.

Do not make me an outlaw.

Pass it on my fellow patriots.

 

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