Quoting George Washington: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

The Second Amendment is in our Bill of Rights because our founding fathers had a justifiable distrust of government. American Colonist already knew that you would perish without the personal protection and provision of a firearm. When King George III put the heat on, the American Patriot could answer the call to arms.

I have heard that 90% of North Carolina homes have some kind of firearm and we have literally tens of thousands who have applied for and received the very popular concealed carry permit. We simply do not see social justification for infringing on the right to keep and bear arms.

The recent passage of HR2640 in response to the Virginia Tech shooting deserves scrutiny beyond the tragedy that spawned the "need" for such federal legislation. There is no argument here that those unfortunate individuals that are legally adjudicated as mentally ill should be prevented from owning firearms. Those laws are already largely in place. But, the scope of this legislation and the particularly offensive manner in which HR2640 passed the US House of Representatives is reason enough for Hafner to run in this primary election.  Gun Owners of America (www.gunowners.org )  is a good national organization where you can get more detail on this recently passed legislation. On the state level Grass Roots North Carolina www.grnc.org  also opposed this legislation.

Being dubbed “The Veterans Disarmament Bill” we should all be concerned that we may have something far deeper here than mental illness. Is it possible that out of the Washington think tanks and the political strategist the feds have observed the potential problem of teaching men to fight a foreign enemy  might create a problem in keeping them from fighting a domestic enemy? The principle here is that tyranny and oppression can only push armed men so far. Let me illustrate with three real life dramas that illustrate this principle.

Post WW I vets played some role in the labor uprising in the West Virginia Coal mines. Some 10,000 West Virginian miners were reported engaged in this “Battle for Blair Mountain”.  Post WWII vets rallied in the “Battle of Athens, Tenn.” on August 2, 1946. (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership www.jpfo.org   records the account and Constitutionality of that action). And Finally the involvement of Black Vietnam Vets in the orchestrated fires burning in race torn Oxford, N.C. in the year 1970.

As we train men to fight in what seems like perpetual war, is there a political concern that they should be “disarmed” when discharged?     

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