Birthplace of the Second Amendment 1765: Canadian Newsman Warns America about Gun Registration

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Canadian Newsman Warns America about Gun Registration

By Michael Allen, Thu, January 09, 2014

Brian Lilley, a Canadian newsman, recently warned the United States that gun registration will lead to gun confiscation.

The Sun News host first showed a clip of President Obama speaking in 2013 about a federal gun bill that would have required universal background checks for purchases, but specifically forbids a national gun registry, which is already banned (video below).

Lilley then showed a clip of gun owners registering their guns in Connecticut under that state's law.

He claimed that Connecticut has a list of "every gun they don't like," but that would only be true if there were evidence that every resident actually registered his or her gun in 100 percent compliance. Lilley then said Connecticut could "amend" its gun control bill "slightly" and "force you to hand in your firearms or face jail time."

According to BizPacReview.com, Lilley then recalled how Canada enacted its nationwide gun registry (which is illegal in the US) and gun owners watched "time and again" how their weapons were re-classified as "prohibited."

He then recalled how Canadian gun owners had certain gun models taken away and then warned, "This is now coming to the US through Connecticut and it could spread."

However, Lilley failed to mention that the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 forbids a national gun registry, per Cornell Law School:

No such rule or regulation prescribed [by the Attorney General] after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or disposition be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary's authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.

Lilley mentioned a low number of police deaths by gun in 2013 in the US, but failed to mention how the US still has far more gun murders than Canada, Australia, Japan and the UK, which all have much stricter gun control laws than the US, noted Business Insider.

He also failed to mention that there is no actual nationwide ban against guns in Canada, according to Canada's CBC News.

Canada has dismantled its long-gun registry, but it does take up to 60 days to buy a firearm, which includes registering, taking a gun safety course and going through background checks.

Lilley warned that gun control was about "control," but was not restricted in his Canadian broadcast.

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It All Started Here . . .

Frontier Mercersburg in 1765 was the "birthplace" of the right we now refer to as "the Second Amendment", or, "the right to bear arms". It was here that individuals for the first time, some would say divinely, embraced the link between "Life and Liberty". . . and struck the first blow for Freedom.

Historically the right to bear arms goes back even before our founding as a nation to the Glorious Revolution of 1689 when William III agreed to the English Bill of Rights. If one can look at revolution like a volcanic eruption in nature, you understand that often from the destruction come the seeds of new human values and beliefs. In this case the independence of the human spirit, the right to know God for oneself, and to trust your conscience was hard won in this revolution of the human soul.

One crucible begets the necessity for another and on the frontier in America the right to defend ones religious beliefs was becoming the right to participate in the decisions of government that impact my "self". Freedom of the soul was becoming freedom of the heart and mind. Smith's Rebellion began as an act they justified under the rubric of defending oneself because government had failed in its obligation to protect Life, Liberty and Property. This was the first assertion of this principle aimed directly at British Military Authority as well as the incompetent government of John Penn - anywhere in the colonies.

In the end, Smith's Rebellion was the first armed resistance against British Military Rule leading up to the American Revolution. It was the first American triumph over the best military force in the world. It was the first time upon defending oneself that Americans had proclaimed we can rule ourselves.

It would be ten years before the battles at Lexington and Concord.

...Let Them Take Arms

The "Right to Bear Arms" . . .or 2nd Amendment is one of the most discussed and contentious of all the amendments of the Bill of Rights. It is, in fact, the only amendment that contains not only the seeds but the actual instruments of the revolution itself. Further, it gives real affirmation to Thomas Jefferson's quote . . .
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

It is for this reason, if no other, that the Government and its functionaries vociferously assail and obfuscate the text of this simple assertion. More, it is for this reason, and in the face of the perennial onslaught that its defense and affirmation is essential to the survival of the republic.

Frontier Mercersburg & The Justice William Smith House

The frontier town of Mercersburg, PA. in the 1760's, although typical of many settlements along the Appalachian Mountains played a pivotal role in the creation of what was to become the "Bill of Rights".

Frontiersmen like James Smith and the Black Boys, many of whom were inhabitants of the Mercersburg environs, were early participants in a series of conflicts with the British government that established principles the eventually lead to the inclusion of the "right to bear arms" in the Bill of Rights.

Much of the focus, centers on the domicile (and likely place of business) of Justice William Smith.

Birthplace of the Second Amendment 1765

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Canadian Newsman Warns America about Gun Registration

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