More Gun Control? More Gun Laws Don't Deter Criminals

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, 
as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”  
– Thomas Jefferson

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Guns actually save more lives than they take… and prevent more injuries than they inflict.  

Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding men and women use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year — or about 6,850 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used greater than 80 times more often to protect lives than to take lives.

However, some government officials do not agree. Examine all the gun control bills listed below, and you can easily conclude that you are looking at mass gun control legislation that will eventually disarm Americans. All of this is tied to the ongoing agenda of the United Nations and Agenda 2030.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 8 on 2/27/2019 to require a background check for every firearm sale. H.R. 8 was put on the U.S. Senate Calendar on 3/4/2019. This bill must be defeated. 

There are five other related pieces of Federal legislation to H.R. 8 (linked below). 

PLEASE be sure to click on the hotlinks for each bill below so you can see for yourselves the details of the bills and who the sponsors are… 
And remember – the titles of the bills do NOT necessarily explain the intent of the bills!

• H.R. 1705 - To prevent the purchase of ammunition by prohibited purchasers.04/12/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security

• H. Res. 145 - Sets out the rules for debating H.R. 8 which requires a background check for every firearm sale. 02/26/2019 Motion to reconsider laid on the table; Agreed to without objection in the House.

• S. 42 - To require a background check for every firearm sale. 01/08/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

• S. 1924 - To prevent the purchase of ammunition by prohibited purchasers.06/20/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

• H.R. 1112 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019. H.R. Passed in the House on 2/28/2019. On 03/05/2019 Read the second time. Placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. 

Other known pieces of Federal anti-gun legislation: This link lists 119 pieces of gun legislation. Below, we have listed separately only the most important pieces of legislation, but be sure to check the link above as well.

• H.R. 167 - To prohibit the transfer of a firearm at a gun show by a person who is not a licensed dealer. 01/03/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 971 - AVERT Future Gun Violence Act of 2019 - To prohibit the possession of a firearm by, or the disposition of a firearm to, a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of animal cruelty. 03/22/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 3552 - To provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes. 07/30/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 820 - To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows. 03/25/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 1296 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2019. This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). 02/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

• S 66 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2019. This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). 01/09/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

• H.R. 687 - To provide for the mandatory licensing and registration of handguns, and for other purposes. 03/04/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 435 - National Gun Violence Research Act -To provide for a coordinated national research program to examine the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and unintended injury and death relating to gun ownership, use, and trafficking, and for other purposes. 02/12/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology

• S. 184 Gun Violence Prevention Research Act - To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.  01/17/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

• H.R. 674 Gun Violence Prevention Research Act - To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.  01/25/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Health. 

• H.R. 157 Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act - This bill repeals provisions of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that prohibit civil actions or administrative proceedings against firearm or ammunition manufacturers, sellers, importers, dealers, or trade associations for harms resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm. 01/03/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

• H.R. 2364 Investor Choice Against Gun Proliferation Act - This bill requires specified issuers of securities to annually disclose any substantial financial relationship with a manufacturer or dealer of firearms or ammunition. 04/25/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. 

• H.R. 1266 Ghost Guns Are Guns Act - To amend title 18, United States Code, to require firearm assembly kits to be considered to be firearms. 03/25/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 33 Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act - To increase public safety by punishing and deterring firearms trafficking. 01/03/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 1116 Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act - This bill expands the categories of persons who are prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition. 03/25/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 820 - Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019 - To require criminal background checks on all firearms transactions occurring at gun shows.  03/25/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.  

• H.R. 1279 - Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2019 - To authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States, units of local government, and gun dealers to conduct gun buyback programs, and for other purposes.  03/25/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 2674 - Gun Theft Prevention Act To enhance safety and security at federally licensed gun shops, and for other purposes. Adds addition rules and regulations to gun shops. 06/26/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 3234 Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act of 2019 To ensure greater accountability by licensed firearms dealers. Adds addition rules and regulations to gun shops. 06/28/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• S. 1795 Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act of 2019 To ensure greater accountability by licensed firearms dealers. Adds addition rules and regulations to gun shops. 06/12/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

• H.R. 4116 - Prevent Gun Trafficking Act - To amend title 18, United States Code, to combat straw purchases of firearms and deter firearms trafficking. 07/30/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 

• H.R. 1745 Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2019. To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that persons subject to firearm restraining orders and persons convicted of violent misdemeanors are prohibited from possessing firearms, and for other purposes. 05/03/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 1287- No Guns for Abusers Act of 2019. To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to implement statutes, rules, policies, or procedures to authorize courts to issue relinquishment orders with respect to individuals charged with or convicted of a crime of domestic violence, or subject to a domestic violence protective order, and for other purposes. 03/25/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 282 - Safer Now Act To improve public safety through sensible reforms to firearms regulations.  01/08/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• H.R. 8 Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019. To require a background check for every firearm sale.  Makes private sales illegal. All sales would have to be run through a licensed gun dealer. 03/04/2019 Read the second time. Placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 29.

• S. 7 Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019 To provide family members of an individual who they fear is a danger to himself, herself, or others, or law enforcement, with new tools to prevent gun violence. This legislation will force the states to implement RED FLAG LAWS if they expect to receive grants under Sec 3043 of Senate Bill 7.  01/03/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

• S. 1519 Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019. To address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and end straw purchases and trafficking of illegal firearms, and for other purposes. 05/16/2019 Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

• H.R. 2959 Freedom from Assault Weapons Act. To remove assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices from circulation, and for other purposes. This legislation will ban all assault weapons and large capacity magazines.06/26/2019 Referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. 

• H.R. 4082 Santa Fe High School Victims Act. To prohibit the private purchase or sale of a firearm or ammunition except through a federally licensed firearms dealer, to impose additional requirements on such a dealer, and for other purposes. 07/26/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

• H.R. 3285 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act. To provide for a grant program for handgun licensing programs, and for other purposes.The Attorney General may award grants to States, units of local government, and Indian tribes for the development, implementation, and evaluation of handgun purchaser licensing requirements. This legislation will force the states to implement handgun licensing laws if they expect to receive federal grants under this legislation. 07/30/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• S. 1395 Age 21 Act - To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the purchase of certain firearms by individuals under 21 years of age, and for other purposes. 05/09/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

 Gun Control Is Unconstitutional

Remember: with gun registration comes confiscation. 

Red Flag Laws let the police confiscate guns without due process. The force behind the Red Flag Laws are the crooked politicians and globalists who want to disarm all Americans. The United Nations and the United States has been working on this issue for years! See Public Law 87-297 that was passed September 26, 1961 when JFK was president and which was used to publish the Department of State Publication 7277 - Freedom from War.

Public Law 87-297 basically calls for the United States to eliminate its armed forces. This law was signed for the United States in 1961. John F. Kennedy signed it and every president since has worked to enact its provisions. The government knows you will not approve which is why they want to take away your firearms.

Section 2 (Purpose) of Public Law 87-297 states:

It is the purpose of this Act to provide impetus toward this goal by creating a new agency of peace to deal with the problem of reduction and control of armaments looking toward ultimate world disarmament.

The United Nations Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Resource Centre says this:

Disarmament is the collection, documentation, control and disposal of small arms, ammunition, explosives and light and heavy weapons from combatants and often from the civilian population. Disarmament also includes the development of responsible arms management programmes.

So, you see, this is not new and has been supported by both Democrats and Republicans. The elitists must replace our Constitution in order to get rid of our guns (“armaments”).  

Under Title 22 of the U.S. Code, Foreign Relations and Intercourse, you’ll see Sections 2551, 2552, 2571, & 2573 which address the U.S. government’s agenda (which unfortunately is in compliance with U.N. goals and agenda) toward the total disarmament of the general public!

IN SECTION 2551, you will find the Statement of Purpose, which is to make the world “free from scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments; in which the use of force has been subordinated to the rule of law, and in which international adjustments to a changing world are achieved peacefully.”

IN SECTION 2552, you will find a definition of what the U. S. Government means by the term “disarmament”. It reads:

(a) The terms “arms control” and “disarmament” mean the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control, reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds under international agreement including the necessary steps taken under such an agreement to establish an effective system of international control, or to create and strengthen international organizations for the maintenance of peace.

IN SECTION 2571, you will find the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is authorized and directed, under the direction of the president, to achieve a long list of goals listed from (a) through (m) which massively diminishes our defense capabilities, ravages our security, and obliterates our sovereignty. Elimination of armed forces and armaments is listed twice in this section. It also includes the requirement for elimination of conventional weapons. As we witness the conduct of public officials as they encroach upon the unalienable right of the people to keep and bear arms and witness the disregard for the non-repealable status of the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, it gives proof of the true intent behind the terms “conventional weapons“, and “general and complete disarmament”. The pursuit is for total and complete disarmament of the United States and its people and for the surrender of U.S. sovereignty to international communist-dominated organizations. State Department Publication 7277 makes these facts indisputable. (Keep reading. We address that below.)

IN SECTION 2573, you will find “Policy Formulation” which contains two prohibitions. One states: “No action shall be taken pursuant to this chapter or any other Act that would obligate the United States to reduce or limit the Armed Forces or armaments of the United States in a militarily significant manner, except pursuant to the treaty-making power of the President, or unless authorized by the enactment of further legislation by the Congress of the United States.” Realize that the U.S. president and the Congress hold the power to activate their complete disarmament goals! Then it will be permissible for the United States to reduce or eliminate Armed Forces and armaments, and to prohibit individuals from the acquisition, possession, or use of firearms.

The United Nations (U.N.) and the U.S. State Department have been trying to do away with our 2nd Amendment for a long, long time. In 1961, during the Nixon administration, State Department Document 7277 “Freedom from War” was created which calls for complete disarmament.

It provides for progressive disarmament steps to take place in three stages and for the simultaneous strengthening of international institutions. This would be the strengthening of the U.N. Peacekeeping Forces. (Good-bye, 2nd Amendment!) Do you think that this might be why so many groups and organizations are calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention?

Whether it be a national leader or whoever speaks of “peace”, “freedom”, “a safer world”, and “a more peaceful world”… it is the 1961 General and Complete Disarmament Law to which they could be referring.

Attention, Readers! We are in Stage III of the disarmament laid out in U.S. State Department Publication 7277, and this ties directly in with the United Nations Agenda and goals of a One World Government.

STAGE III (Final Stage of DISARMAMENT!) The information below is taken directly from the State Department Document 7277 “Freedom from War” — from 58 YEARS AGO (1961):

By the time Stage III has been completed, the confidence produced through a verified disarmament program, the acceptance of rules of peaceful international behavior, and the development of strengthened international peace-keeping processes within the framework of the U.N. should have reached a point where the states of the world can move forward to Stage III. In Stage III, progressive controlled disarmament and continuously developing principles and procedures of international law would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force and all international disputes would be settled according to the agreed principles of international conduct.

The progressive steps to be taken during the final phase of the disarmament program would be directed toward the attainment of a world in which:

(a) States would retain only those forces, non-nuclear armaments, and establishments required for the purpose of maintaining internal order; they would also support and provide agreed manpower for a U.N Peace Force.

(b) The U.N. Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and quantities of armaments, would be fully functioning.

(c) The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes.

(d) The peacekeeping capabilities of the United Nations would be sufficiently strong and the obligations of all states under such arrangements sufficiently far-reaching as to assure peace and the just settlement of differences in a disarmed world. [emphasis ours]

Summary of the State Department Document 7277: The main objective of all the gun control legislation is to disarm America gradually. The United Nations is behind a substantial amount of this. State Department Document 7277 lays out the disarmament and we are presently in Stage III.

At the end of Stage III disarmament, progressive controlled disarmament and continuously developing principles and procedures of international law would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force, and all international disputes would be settled according to the agreed principles of international conduct.

For America, that will mean no private gun ownership, and all U.S. Armed Forces will be transferred to the U.N. This will leave the U.N. Peace Keeping Forces in charge, and America can kiss their Freedom and Liberty goodbye.

You may have heard the old metaphor about the frog in water:  if you put a frog in boiling water, it will hop out… but if you put it in room temperature water and gradually increase the temperature of the water, the frog will let itself be boiled. This metaphor is meant to warn us about slowly developing dangers in addition to obvious ones. Secure Arkansas cannot think of a better metaphor to represent what’s occurring with the gradual, continual, unconstitutional encroachment on our gun rights…

Why should we, the people, allow MORE gun control that would authorize the government to proceed to disarm us incrementally? 

Public trust in our government is at an all-time low.

What part of the 2nd Amendment don’t our politicians understand?

Gun control is absolutely unconstitutional!

And yes, we should investigate the drug problem as well, but we also know that the problems run a lot deeper than drugs! However, we’ve included an article (linked directly below) that touches on the problem of drugs and should not be dismissed.

Antidepressants are a prescription for mass shootings

Before the late nineteen eighties, mass shootings and acts of senseless violence were relatively unheard-of. Prozac, the most well known SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant, was not yet on the market. When Prozac did arrive, it was marketed as a panacea for depression which resulted in huge profits for its manufacturer Eli Lilly. Of course other drug companies had to create their own cash cow and followed suit by marketing their own SSRI antidepressants.

Subsequently, mass shootings and other violent incidents started to be reported. More often than not, the common denominator was that the shooters were on an antidepressant, or withdrawing from one. This is not about an isolated incident or two but numerous shootings. The question is, during the past twenty years is the use of antidepressants here a coincidence or a causation?  

Drug use has been found to cause violence and has been linked to the majority of suicide and mass shootings. Why aren’t the politicians addressing the problems of prescription drugs? (Are the politicians also in bed with the pharmaceutical companies? Are we, the people, being sold out as mere chattel for the almighty dollar? Follow the money…) 

Every time there is a gun crisis, the liberals scream for gun control using their political doctrine and propaganda. Politically, the term “liberal” means:  a person who believes that government should be active in supporting unconstitutional, broad-sweeping changes, including social and political.

After the tragic El Paso and Dayton shootings, some of our politicians were crying for universal background checks and for the states to enact Red Flag Laws. Now, with the latest  shooting in Philadelphia and other parts of America, the antigun movement organizations are pushing even harder for massive gun control laws. Readers, please do not buy into the social justice lies on gun control. With universal background check legislation comes gun registration. Gun registration will cause confiscation. And regardless of gun laws, criminals, gangs, and even dirty government officials will always get their hands on guns and other weapons.

It’s been shown that psychiatric drugs create violence and suicide, and this is evident in school shootings and other acts of senseless violence.

Psychiatric Drugs & Violence – The Facts

Fact: Despite 27 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.

Ritalin is one of the drugs prescribed for persons with ADHD. For Ritalin there are 25 warnings.

Some of the Ritalin Warning Side Effects are:

• Warning ID:605 Depression, Emotional Problems, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Risk, Psychological Problems, Hostility, Violence Related Side Effects, Anxiety, Agitation, Psychosis, Mania
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• Warning ID:650 Addiction, Psychological Problems, Drug Abuse
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• Warning ID:713 Stroke, Cardiovascular Disorders, Cerebrovascular Problems, Heart Problems, Heart Attack, Psychological Problems, Mania, Hallucinations, Violence Related Side Effects
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• Warning ID:379 Headaches, Nausea, Eating Disorders, Depression, Drowsiness, Aggression, Emotional Problems, Violence Related Side Effects, Agitation, Heart Problems, Increased Heart Rate, Abnormally Tight Muscles, Muscle Problems, Insomnia, Psychological Problems
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• Warning ID:419 Sudden Death, Stroke, Cardiovascular Disorders, Cerebrovascular Problems, Heart Attack, Heart Problems, Hallucinations, Delusions, Mania, Psychological Problems, Violence Related Side Effects, Slowed Growth, Seizures, Involuntary Movements, Eye Problems

Some of the other drugs that cause violent-related behavior side effects are:

• Prozac
• Zoloft
• Xanax
• Sarafern
• Luvox
• Paxil
• Seroxat
• Celexa
• Lexapro
•  Strattera
• Cymbalta
• Effexor
• Savella
• Edronax
• Remeron

To read all the drug regulatory agency warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs, visit CCHR’s Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine. and type in the drug name to find the dangerous side effects.

In closing:  gangs, criminals, or any evil person can walk right past a posted “gun-free zone” sign and start shooting people… Mass shootings and massacres almost always occur in gun-free environments!  It’s happened time and time again! 

Good people that are gun owners should not be punished with restrictions for the deeds of criminals. Yes, we need guns in our homes to protect ourselves and our families. Criminals will always have weapons to conduct their crimes, folks. 

In our next article will be examples of the criminal activity that appears the government allowed to continue behind our backs. If you are not outraged by now, you never will be… 

It’s all over the news! And it involves the federal government; the sick, twisted, sexual activities of officials; and lack of safety of our children and the general public.

Are you concerned about being disarmed?
Are you tired of the fear-based manipulation and propaganda?

Be sure to contact your federal delegation immediately! CALL, FAX, etc… 
Tell them to reject any more gun control bills!

Contact info for Arkansas specifically is at the bottom of this email.

Shown directly below is a general link to contact information for EVERY state:

All Federal Elected Officials  

• Contact President Donald Trump online, or call the White House switchboard at 202-456-1414 or the Comments Line at 202-456-1111 during business hours.

• Locate your U.S. Senators’ contact information.

• Find your U.S. Representative’s website and contact information.

All State Elected Officials  

• Get in touch with your state governor.

• Find the names and current activities of your state legislators.

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