By: Carlos S. Ramirez
I got this link from a friend at the NRA.
Its a website for PA Aware, a site that claims to be “an online training course to help you understand the threat to our society”.
It claims that domestic terrorist groups are anti government groups (correct so far), who hold beliefs against the government. They then list some of those beliefs. Top of the list is this:
Gun Control is a conspiracy to enslave us starting with the removal of our ability to either defend ourselves or forcefully change our government.
Yeah, you read that right. This site says that groups who oppose gun control because it takes away the rights of law abiding citizens to defend themselves are domestic terrorists.Ha. That’s one thing I have never been accused of before (except for that one time in 8th grade with the stink bomb, but I digress).I wonder, does this same logic (the logic that the first ten amendments to the constitution, all of them, including the second and third, apply to everyone, all the time) make the ACLU a terrorist group for opposing time, place and manner restrictions on speech? Or does it make anti-death penalty groups, who claim that the 5th amendment due process clause in fact forbids capital punishment “dangerous dissidents”?
Look, the fact is, domestic terrorist groups are almost, if not just as dangerous as al Queda and other religious extremists. Criminals who conspire to commit seditious acts should be arrested, charged and imprisoned. There is no reason why, though, PA Aware or any other group has to make statements that lump law abiding americans who hold (an apparently “dissident”) political opinion in with crazy groups in camo-painted pickup trucks.
This is the type of ignorant propaganda that tries to convince people that gun control stops crime. I have more on that on my next entry.Author’s Note: My next entry will discuss the Supreme Court’s opinion in Haynes v U.S. in 1968, which ruled that felons cannot be compelled to register their firearms because doing so will cause them to be forced to incriminate themselves, in violation of the 5th amendment.
