U.S. Catholic Bishops Push for Legislation to Restrict Gun Rights

“For many years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have been urging our leaders to explore and adopt reasonable policies to help curb gun violence. …[W]eapons designed to inflict extreme levels of bloodshed—too easily find their way into the hands of those who would wish to use them to harm others.” Roman Catholic Bishop Frank Dewane, Diocese of Venice, Florida

 

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) called for strict gun control measures on Americans owing firearms during their three-day annual General Assembly earlier this month in Baltimore, Maryland.

Although the Roman Catholic Bishops were divided over red-flag laws, handgun licensing, and a national gun registry, they whole heartedly endorsed specific congressional actions banning “assault weapons,” restricting magazine capacities, and limiting handguns.

Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, wants “common sense measures” to defeat gun violence, and Fred Kammer, S.J. head of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans, wants the USCCB to partner “with other faith communities” to offset “the corrupting power of the National Rifle Association and its influence on Congress.”

Catholic bishops in the United States have long supported restrictions on gun ownership and bans on high-powered and semi-automatic weapons. For example:

In 1994, bishops supported the Clinton Administration’s assault-weapons ban (allowed to expire in 2004).

In 2000, bishops called for “sensible regulation of handguns.”

In 2015, bishops supported universal background checks, limits on high-capacity weapons and ammunition, and increases in mental health services.

In 2017, bishops pushed for legislative action on guns including a “total ban on assault weapons” and high-power weapons.

There are few overt statements from the Roman Catholic Church regarding the right of Americans to bear arms; however, the truth is the Vatican opposes private gun ownership and wants to strictly limit and eventually eliminate Americans’ God-given right to bear arms.

Pope Francis has said that gun manufacturers and gun dealers aren’t interested in the word of God and can’t be Christians because they “fabricate death, they are merchants of death and make death into a trade.”

And in their November 2000 publication, “Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice,” the bishops stated, “we support measures that control the sale and use of firearms and make them safer — especially efforts that prevent their unsupervised use by children or anyone other than the owner — and we reiterate our call for sensible regulation of handguns.”

Obviously the Vatican promotes a double standard—protection for me but not for thee. Pope Francis and Vatican personnel are protected by the Vatican City Gendarmerie, a highly-trained and well-armed professional security staff equipped with submachine guns, which are illegal in the US without a valid permit.

Roman Catholic gun owners and patriots who disagree with the Church’s double standard and rejection of gun rights should contact the Conference of Catholic Bishops with their concerns.

For additional information on the USCCB General Assembly in Baltimore, see US Catholic Bishops Endorse Gun Control Manifesto and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mull abortion, gun control.

 

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NRA BACKS GUN BACKGROUND CHECK LEGISLATION

NRA Backs Gun Background Check Legislation

By Jerry A. Kane

Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican leader, introduced legislation today that would reward states for sending more information about residents with serious mental problems to the federal background check system for firearms purchasers.

The proposed legislation is being backed by the National Rifle Association. Jennifer Baker, spokeswoman for NRA legislative affairs, said the bill took “meaningful steps toward fixing the system and making our communities safer.”

Cornyn’s bill would increase grants under the government’s main law enforcement program by up to 5 percent for states that send the federal system at least 90 percent of their records on people with serious mental problems.

States providing less data could see their grants from a broad range of justice programs penalized by the same amounts, at the attorney general’s discretion.

So what criteria will the Uni-party use to determine a “serious” mental problem, and how long before it mandates what type of psychiatric exam everyone must get to purchase a gun?

Didn’t Hussein I (peace be upon him) and his minions suggest that fundamentalist Christians and staunch conservatives have serious mental problems? BTW, this latest assault on individual liberty and the 2^nd Amendment is headed by a Republican senator and the NRA, and not Charles Schumer and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963:

38. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

Some children who exhibit negative, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward adults and authority have been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder. For a child to receive an ODD diagnosis, the behaviors must occur for at least six months.

Right now it’s only children who are diagnosed with ODD, but it’s not hard to imagine that eventually the parameters of the disorder will expand to include adults.

For more on the NRA sell out, see No. 2 Senate Republican proposing gun background check bill.

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REPROBATES AND NRA BOTS

Freedom and liberty are lost when Second Amendment supporters and NRA Bots no longer recognize that the First Amendment must be protected above all else and defended with greater zeal than the Second.

The NRA and their Bots fail to realize that unless they support the First Amendment they are aiding and abetting the totalitarian progressives in restricting the religious freedom of business owners and the political speech of grassroots organizations.

Once political correctness negates the First Amendment and religious conscience and offensive speech are abolished, the Second Amendment is rendered meaningless because nothing of significance is left to protect.

 

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This 8:05 youtube video is taken from The Millstone Report web cast at the Resistance Radio Network.

The show aired Thursday, April 17, 2014. TMR is broadcast live M-F from 10:00 am — noon on channel 2.

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NRA IS A SHELL OF WHAT IT ONCE WAS

This 19:13 youtube video is taken from The Millstone Report web cast at the Resistance Radio Network.

The show aired Tuesday, January 14, 2014. TMR is broadcast live M-F from 10:00 am — noon on channel 2.

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NRA ENDORSES DEMOCRATS OVER REPUBLICANS IN CENTER-RIGHT DISTRICTS

NRA Supports Dems’ Bid to Keep Congress

By Jerry A. Kane

The headline is not a transposed “R” in place of an “E.” Yes, it’s the National Rifle Association and not the National Education Association that is supporting Democrat candidates to keep Republicans from retaking the House. The NRA has endorsed 39 House Democrat candidates even though their Republican challengers champion the Second Amendment. To add insult to injury, the organization is endorsing them in center-right House districts that Republicans could win. The NRA endorsement gives the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats credibility that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

“[A]s long as the conservative rhetoric is coming from the Democrat candidates themselves, the voters aren’t buying it.  However, when the NRA … endorses that Democrat for reelection over their 2nd amendment champion Republican opponents … [it] give[s] credence to their claims of being born again conservatives.  The sad thing is that the NRA is endorsing Democrats in the very districts that we must win in order to obtain 39 seats.”—Daniel Horowitz 

Right-to-life groups have three criteria candidates must meet to get their endorsement, Americans for Tax for Reform have candidates sign a pledge, but the NRA doesn’t require candidates to meet certain criteria or a sign pledge to uphold the Second Amendment for its endorsement; it’s a purely subjective judgment call.  

For example, in last year’s special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District, the NRA supported leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Scozzafava eventually dropped from the race and endorsed Democrat Bill Owens over Hoffman. Now, the NRA endorses Owens over Republican Matt Doheny in November. 

Even though the NRA supports Republicans and has given 71 percent of its political action committee’s contributions to GOP candidates, that percentage is down compared to previous election cycles. The Democrat Party is the problem plaguing America and ignoring that problem is a fatal mistake. 

A lot of so-called conservatives avoid discussing how the NRA is undermining the conservative movement and Republican efforts to oust George Soros’ Shadow Party Democrats from power. “Great Americans” Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, et al either won’t mention the NRA’s undermining activities or they dance around them when they’re pointed out and never openly criticize the organization.  

Major on-line conservative gatekeeper publications aren’t much better. They have been treading lightly over the NRA’s underhanded endorsements of Democrats, as if they’re trying their level best to remain in the good graces of the organization.  

The NRA hides behind the one-issue, gun-rights only claim, and endorses Democrats to ensure participation in future elections. The organization didn’t oppose Eric Holder for attorney general and waited until the last minute to come out against Obama’s leftist Supreme Court nominees. It signed on to the Disclose Act, which was a carefully crafted Democrat scheme to impose onerous disclosure requirements on over 100,000 nonprofits and activist groups to prevent them from engaging in any effective political speech during campaign season. Such tactics are a fool’s game for those who feed the crocodile believing they will be the last to be eaten. 

Face it; this hypocritical “arrogant and elitist” organization has more in common with Chuck Schumer than it does with Chuck Heston. Much like the leftist, race-baiting poverty pimps Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who fuel the race issue for relevance and money, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and chief lobbyist Chris Cox don’t seem too anxious for the gun control issue to go away. They appear to be more concerned with preserving their six-figure salaries than with upholding the Second Amendment and defeating the one party that unambiguously has been behind all gun control legislation.  

“There are few organizations purportedly on the side of freedom that aggravate me more than the National Rifle Association. In fact, these days I cringe when I see good conservatives with their lifetime member sticker from the NRA on the back of their cars.”—Eric Erickson 

From the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the NRA zealously fought gun control advocates in the United States when Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand buckled under and lost the individual’s right to firearm ownership and self-defense. But today’s NRA is merely a shell of what it once was, living off its past reputation. This once mighty 4 million-member, $307 million organization is no longer indispensable because it doesn’t understand what the fight is about. It has become a tool used by the Democrat Party to destroy this Republic and its Constitution. Its leaders are now too timid to uphold freedom and all too willing to sit at the table with the leftist elites in Washington, DC.  

The political climate and the Democrat Party have irrevocably changed; conservative and moderate democrats are an extinct species. When Pelosi or Reid need votes, the so-called Blue Dog Democrats will line up and vote against Second Amendment protections as ordered.  

The loss of liberty is looming, and America stands in the path of danger. Freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril as the irresistible siren summons the common man to muster resistance against politicians everywhere who would subvert those freedoms.  

“So, as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, [Messrs. Cox and LaPierre]: ‘From my cold, dead hands!'”—Charlton Heston

To keep Republicans from winning the House, the NRA is endorsing the following Democrats: 

AL-2: Bobby Bright

AR-4: Mike Ross

Ca-18: Dennis Cardoza

CO-3: John Salazar

CO-4: Betsy Markey

FL-2: Allen Boyd

Ga-2: Sanford Bishop

Ga-8: Jim Marshall

Ga-12: John Barrow

IA-3: Leonard Boswell

IL-11: Debbie Halvorson

IL-12: Jerry Costello

IN-Senate-Brad Ellsworth

IN-2: Joe Donnely

IN-8: Trent Van Haaften

IN-9: Baron Hill

KY-6: Ben Chandler

MD-1: Frank Kratovil

MI-1: Gary McDowell

MN-1: Tim Walz

MS-1: Travis Childers

MS-4: Gene Taylor

MO-4: Ike Skelton

NC-7: Mike McIntyre

NC-8: Larry Kissell

NC-11: Heath Shuler

ND-At Large: Earl Pomeroy

NM-1: Martin Heinrich

NM-2: Harry Teague

NM-3: Ben Lujan

NY-20: Scott Murphy

NY-23: Bill Owens

NY-24: Mike Acruri

OH-Gov. Ted Strickland

OH-6: Charlie Wilson

OH-16: John Boccieri

OH-18: Zack Space

OK-2: Dan Boren

OR-5: Kurt Schrader

PA-4: Jason Altmire

PA-10: Chris Carney

PA-11: Paul Kanjorski

PA-12: Mark Critz

PA-17: Tim Holden

SD-At Large: Stephanie Sandlin

TN-4: Lincoln Davis

TN-8: Roy Herron

TX-17: Chet Edwards

UT-2: Jim Matheson

VA-2: Glenn Nye

VA-5: Tom Perriello

VA-9: Rick Boucher

WI-3: Ron Kind

WI-8: Steve Kagen

WV-Senate: Joe Manchin

WV-3: Nick Rahall 

For more on this story, see NRA may stop GOP from taking the House? by Matthew Sheffield and The NRA is Helping Preserve the Anti Gun Democrat Majority by David Horowitz.

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