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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Ah... Those Texans Are at It Again. Good for Them!

via Mr. Big Food's Dad, the Press Release from United States Representative Steve Stockman (TX-36): 

Stockman warns Obama: Push for gun control will be met with White House budget cuts, possible impeachment

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas 36th) released the following statement Monday afternoon.

The White House’s recent announcement they will use executive orders and executive actions to infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms is an unconstitutional and unconscionable attack on the very founding principles of this republic.

I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment.

The President’s actions are an existential threat to this nation.  The right of the people to keep and bear arms is what has kept this nation free and secure for over 200 years.  The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Under no circumstances whatsoever may the government take any action that disarms any peaceable person – much less without due process through an executive declaration without a vote of Congress or a ruling of a court.

The President’s actions are not just an attack on the Constitution and a violation of his sworn oath of office – they are a direct attack on Americans that place all of us in danger.  If the President is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

[my emphsis]

Stockman's site here.

2 comments:

  1. I heard an interview this AM in which someone stated that the majority of the American public agreed with the President.

    She said that the Gallop poll that disagreed was "unreliable". Guess she hasn't heard about the poll determined by the number of people willing to put down cold hard cash to disagree with her...!

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  2. LOL. Excellent point! And have you seen the price of ammo these days? Crazy.

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