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D.C. and New Orleans Fight to Disarm Constituents.
Abuse of due process was the greatest fear of the Founding Fathers.
The District of Columbia, refusing to live with the decision handed down banning the Washington, D.C. gun ban itself, filed appeal papers Tuesday pleading with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn that ruling according to various news reports.
Mayor Adrian Fenty announced weeks earlier his refusal to abide by the court order striking down his city’s gun ban. This is reminiscent of New Orleans’ Mayor Nagin who also refuses to abide by a local court order compelling his office to return handguns it has ruled were illegally confiscated following Hurricane Katrina.
"These are exquisite examples of abuse of due process the Founding Fathers defeated in our successful War for Independence at the nation’s inception," announced John Longenecker, President of Good For The Country Foundation, a patriotic philanthropy nonprofit.
"One of the greatest fears of any free people is the assumption of powers not granted, the weakest of reasons for doing it all, the unrighteous use of force, and an abuse of due process overall," said Longenecker.
"It’s utterly amazing how officials with law degrees cannot remember that their police have no duty to protect their constituents, that armed individuals are in fact the first line of defense when facing grave danger in the absence of first responders, that constituents have all legal authority to use up to lethal force, and that, increasingly – not decreasingly – more states are adopting the Castle Doctrine and concealed carry laws purely in affirmation of these truths."
Every single official in this country must remember what the founders of the nation defeated: abuse of due process. And they must remember precisely what the second amendment and the eighth, ninth, tenth and fourteenth amendments which support it are really all about: prohibition against abuse of process, and protection of the lethal force which backs citizen authority on such matters.
Disarming citizens in the name of fighting crime is nothing more than an attack on the force which backs citizen authority in this country. This is precisely the abuse of process the law forbids.
Keywords: Castle Doctrine
Police have no duty to protect
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, Supreme Court, 2005
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