For all of our nation's history, there have been tactical battles between opposing political ideologies -- liberals (leftists) who want to liberate us from constitutional rule of law, and conservatives who strive to conserve rule of law. Great political capital has been, and continues to be, expended by the Left in order to offend our Constitution, and by the Right in order to defend it.

Mark Alexander, Patriot Post.

Some people just don't want to play by the rules. Could you imagine a sporting event that did not have a predetermined set of rules to play by.

That is what our Constitution is, the agreed to list of rules that we run our society with. It was written in plain language and set up the way our Founding Fathers viewed how a government of the people should be run. They drew on the experiences they had lived thru all their lives, the ruling Monarchies of Europe, the Parliament of England, the excesses, abuses, and disappointments of all.

They saw only one goal of this new experiment they started, FREEDOM. They strove to assure that the power of government lay with the people, not with any one person or group. That there would be a way for the people to change those in power when needed, and to change the Rules when needed, by having the MAJORITY of the people agree that a change was needed and was written in a way that they could agree to and live with.

The 10th Amendment was written to specifically define the powers of the Federal Government and state that those powers not given to the Fed belonged to the States, something that our national leaders seemed to have forgotten in recent years.

Our Federal government was never meant to be the ruling body it has become. Read the Articles of Confederation and you will see that our founders believed in, and were passionate about, the rights of each individual state. And, as it should be, because the state is closer to the people than Washington, even in this time of instant global communication. The national government was meant to help in the interaction between the states and between this new country and other countries, not to create the rules and hold the reins. The people are to hold the reins, we hold the power, not the other way around.

We see now that our government wants to control the banks, the oil companies, the auto industry and to what end? They want to control us, but yet we control the means to remove them if we so desire. So the next logical step is to assume that they are not finished, that there are more of our liberties that will vanish. They must move the pieces around so that they have the power to retain their power.

H.B 45 is one step in that direction. The Second Amendment is a big stumbling block on that path to power. Yamamoto was asked why he did not invade the US after Pearl Harbor and his reply was "there would be a gun behind every blade of grass". This remains true today. With 90 million gunowners in the US we have them out gunned, the question is, can we out will them.
Will enough Americans stand and be counted when the status of liberty, real liberty, is on the line?

The current fight that is brewing between the states and the fed over the 10th Amendment is one that needs the support of every American, both Republican and Democrat. We need to push back on the erosion of our rights from both the Congress and the Courts and convey to those inside the beltway that they serve at our connivance not we obey at theirs.

Look on the internet and find those groups that are close to you that are beginning to rise up and petition for the return of the 10th Amendment, write your state representatives and make your voice heard.

It is not to late.

WP