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NT! When I first logged on this morning, among the nearly 300 notifications I had waiting for me, was this one from @BearingTruth -
This was in response to a tweet from Barry R McCaffrey, a retired four star Army General, who also worked in the Clinton Administration, where he came out in favor of Feinstein's new gun grabbing legislation against semiautomatic weapons.
This statement, in support of a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is directly *against* the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which apparently Gen McCaffrey doesn't like.
Too bad.
Too bad.
He, like *every* individual who has entered service to our Nation, had to swear/affirm to "... support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ..."
He has either forgotten that, or he didn't take it seriously, *or* believes that he has been relieved of that oath upon his retirement. I cannot speak directly to the first two, although I suspect that he didn't assign his oath the "gravitas" required.
However, I *can* speak to the last aspect of that - being relieved of that oath, and I responded to him thusly -
In case you don't want to click on the link, here's what I said to him ...
I would like to know which superior officer, by name & rank, it was that relieved you of the oath you took upon entry into service, to uphold the Constitution, to support & defend ALL of it, not just the parts you like, when you retired? No one relieved me of *my* oath, General.
No one told me on that day in January of 1977, when I was discharged from the US Navy, that the oath I took upon my enlistment in August of 1974 no longer applied, that I had been released or relieved of my obligation ...
The obligation that I freely and willingly undertook at the age of 18. No one even spoke to me about that, under any circumstance whatsoever, leaving me with the impression that my oath was, and is, still in effect.
Since no one in a position of authority above me *ever* said, "You are relieved of this duty from this day forward.", that oath I took nearly 45 years ago *still* applies, and I will continue to support and defend the Constitution until I die.
Those who served and are in the camp of the gun grabbers, and state that the
#2A "no longer applies", that it was meant to cover muskets ... or to cover a state militia and not individuals, are a stain upon the uniform they wore ...
#2A "no longer applies", that it was meant to cover muskets ... or to cover a state militia and not individuals, are a stain upon the uniform they wore ...
And a disgrace to the rest of us veterans who believe in this country, and believe in the Constitution as it's written. There is a reason that the first two Amendments are in the place that they are.
The First Amendment gives us the right to free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and the freedom to address grievances against the government when we feel that our rights have been abrogated.
The Second Amendment is there to give We The People the right to take up arms against the government in the event that our government becomes despotic and has started taking away our other rights.
What Gen. McCaffrey and other #Oathbreakers are trying to do is pick and choose which parts of the Constitution they like, and which parts they don't like, and the main part they don't like is the Second Amendment.
My question to them, and to all of the other gun grabbers out there, which they consistently refuse to answer, is - what part of "Shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
That, along with every other right, is a God given right, which the Constitution plainly states, not something from the government, and which the government cannot take away from us.
I took my oath to support and defend the Constitution against *all* enemies, both foreign and domestic, and I will continue to take that oath seriously, unlike Gen McCaffrey and the rest of the #Oathbreakers, until my last breath. End
