We have the right to own and bear arms, Our very own Constitution plainly states it!
I look around these days and it’s getting scary what is happening to America. I see it in the newspaper, on TV and just as much on social media sites.
More than 200 years ago, some very intelligent men gathered and formed a document called the Constitution of the United States, and in that Constitution is the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights was created for one reason — to protect the people from their own government. The First Amendment is about freedom of speech, and the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms.
Hear is what the first two amendments say exactly:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
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.
What scares me the most is we here in the United States seem to look for loopholes or ways around things. We tend to make it the way we want it to be, not the way it reads.
Here is a prime example. Ten United Mine Workers of America leaders, including union President Cecil Roberts and District 31 Vice President and state Delegate Mike Caputo of Marion County, were arrested while protesting outside Peabody Energy. Caputo said he was charged with “failure to disperse.”
So now we can be arrested for protesting and voicing our opinion while not hurting anyone? How is this? The wording of the First Amendment is exact to me. There’s no room for interpretation here. None whatsoever.
Next is the Second Amendment. How can “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon” be misconstrued? People, it cannot be expressed any more clearly than that!
There is absolutely no room for error with that statement or for some fancy lawyer twisting the words to mean something else. Its in black and white.
All I can say is that people, you better wake up and look around. The Bill of Rights was created for us to protect us, the people, from the government and ourselves.
People that can no longer voice their opinion and or protect themselves from harm in whatever form in comes in is a very weak people.
We have to be smart enough to recognize when people take advantage of a situation and using it as a disguise to do or achieve self-serving acts.
In my opinion, the Bill of Rights has been riddled away enough by the courts and in some cases means nothing anymore.
If we the people don’t start standing up for our rights, companies like Peabody Energy and Arch Coal will strip away all the benefits that all the retired miners and their widows earned.
At the same time, our government at the federal and state level is trying to change guns laws in some of the most ridiculous manners that gain nothing and stop no one but the regular Joe that just likes to enjoy his or her firearms and soon may not be able to.
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources will hold 12 public meetings across the state in March to provide hunters, trappers, anglers, landowners and other interested parties an opportunity to review and comment on proposed 2013 hunting regulations for white-tailed deer, wild turkey, black bear and boar, proposed 2014-2015 general hunting and trapping regulations, proposed amphibian and reptile regulations, and proposed 2014 fishing regulations.
The local meeting will be held from 6-8 p.m. on March 18 at the East Fairmont High School commons area. Please attend. This is time to address issues you think are important.
Email Danny Snyder at photoman15@frontier.com.
More than 200 years ago, some very intelligent men gathered and formed a document called the Constitution of the United States, and in that Constitution is the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights was created for one reason — to protect the people from their own government. The First Amendment is about freedom of speech, and the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms.
Hear is what the first two amendments say exactly:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
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.
What scares me the most is we here in the United States seem to look for loopholes or ways around things. We tend to make it the way we want it to be, not the way it reads.
Here is a prime example. Ten United Mine Workers of America leaders, including union President Cecil Roberts and District 31 Vice President and state Delegate Mike Caputo of Marion County, were arrested while protesting outside Peabody Energy. Caputo said he was charged with “failure to disperse.”
So now we can be arrested for protesting and voicing our opinion while not hurting anyone? How is this? The wording of the First Amendment is exact to me. There’s no room for interpretation here. None whatsoever.
Next is the Second Amendment. How can “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon” be misconstrued? People, it cannot be expressed any more clearly than that!
There is absolutely no room for error with that statement or for some fancy lawyer twisting the words to mean something else. Its in black and white.
All I can say is that people, you better wake up and look around. The Bill of Rights was created for us to protect us, the people, from the government and ourselves.
People that can no longer voice their opinion and or protect themselves from harm in whatever form in comes in is a very weak people.
We have to be smart enough to recognize when people take advantage of a situation and using it as a disguise to do or achieve self-serving acts.
In my opinion, the Bill of Rights has been riddled away enough by the courts and in some cases means nothing anymore.
If we the people don’t start standing up for our rights, companies like Peabody Energy and Arch Coal will strip away all the benefits that all the retired miners and their widows earned.
At the same time, our government at the federal and state level is trying to change guns laws in some of the most ridiculous manners that gain nothing and stop no one but the regular Joe that just likes to enjoy his or her firearms and soon may not be able to.
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources will hold 12 public meetings across the state in March to provide hunters, trappers, anglers, landowners and other interested parties an opportunity to review and comment on proposed 2013 hunting regulations for white-tailed deer, wild turkey, black bear and boar, proposed 2014-2015 general hunting and trapping regulations, proposed amphibian and reptile regulations, and proposed 2014 fishing regulations.
The local meeting will be held from 6-8 p.m. on March 18 at the East Fairmont High School commons area. Please attend. This is time to address issues you think are important.
Email Danny Snyder at photoman15@frontier.com.
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