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Gun Owners of America |
Harry Reid Prepares to
Annihilate Second Amendment
“Our Founders intended the Senate to be a body where legislation was
slowed down and subject to improvement through extended debate and
amendment. [Harry] Reid’s proposed ‘reforms’ would remove two of the
most fundamental rights traditionally reserved to all Senators -- to
freely debate and amend legislation. I shall not stand for that.” --
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
On Election Day last November, several
Democrat Senators were campaigning for reelection in pro-gun states.
And in order to get their constituents’ votes, they promised fealty to
the Second Amendment.
May, on November 6, Democrat Senators
Joe Manchin (WV), Bob Casey (PA) and Jon Tester (MT) all won their
respective elections. These seats, among others, were crucial to
helping Harry Reid return to the top post in the Senate.
But only a month after the election
returns were tallied, the Senate -- under Majority Leader Harry Reid’s
control -- is now crusading to implement:
* Gun bans on semiautomatic firearms and magazines;
* An effective ban on gun shows;
* A ban on private gun sales, without going through a gun dealer; and,
* Changes in the Senate rules which would allow them to ban guns with a mere 50 Senate votes.
This last proposal is particularly
insidious. Gun grabbers are not going to be able to get 60 votes to
break a Senate filibuster of gun control. But, with the help of fake
“pro-gun” Senate Democrats, they may be able to get 50.
So the question of whether Senate
Democrats will need 50 votes or 60 votes will determine whether gun
control -– and much of Obama’s agenda -– will be slammed through and
passed into law.
This brings us to the “nuclear option.”
This is a trick which anti-gun
Democrats intend to use the first day of the Senate session in order to
obliterate the Senate rules and clear the way for 50-vote passage of gun
control.
Your senator’s vote on the “nuclear option” may be the most important gun-related vote he casts during the 113th
Congress. It may be the difference between whether Obama can secure
Senate passage of gun bans, magazine bans, gun show bans, and bans on
private gun sales.
Anti-gun Democrats will try to tell you that the Senate is just following its precedents.
But that’s a bald-faced lie. As
Democrats made clear during the Bush administration when the Republicans
were contemplating the “nuclear option,” the nuclear option has been
threatened, but the trigger has never been pulled.
Anti-gun Democrats will try to tell you that the “nuclear option” can only be invoked on the first day.
That’s a lie. Senate Rule 5,
Paragraph 2, provides that the Senate rules continue from one Congress
to the next, unless changed by 67 votes (needed to break a filibuster of
rules changes). If the Senate can use brute force to obliterate Rule 5
by 50 votes, it can use brute force to obliterate any rule at any time
by 50 votes.
This is a major vote that will have
huge ramifications for our republic. Our gun rights are just one of the
many freedoms that are on the chopping block right now. And if Harry
Reid can squelch his opposition by nuking the filibuster, it will be the
first step towards completely obliterating our Constitution.
ACTION: Click here to contact your Senators
and tell them that the vote on the "nuclear option" will be the most
important gun control vote of the 113th Congress. Urge them to vote
AGAINST changing the Senate rules. Tell them to vote AGAINST the
"nuclear option."
You may also phone the United States
Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will
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