U.S. Congress - H.R.17 Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2009
H.R.17 - Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2009
To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Official: To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. as introduced.
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every citzen should be pulling for this bill. the right to protect ones life and family should be on every ones mind.
remember the police get there after the fact.
You’re right, but you need to take a closer look at what all is attached to this bill before you go pushing for its passage!!!! This one has HR45 attached to it, which we DON’T want. That’ what those childish Reps do. If you don’t vote yes to pass the Bill I want, then I’ll attach this to your Bill so it won’t pass either. Like a bunch of frickin kids on the schoolyard playground. You play my way, or I’ll take my ball and go home. Yeah really mature leaders in Washington, huh? Push your Reps to separate HR45 from this Bill, THEN, push them to pass it.
This Bill must become law to remain safe and free! How would the president feel if we where to disarm his (Free security) secret service bodyguards? Not to safe I’m sure. We as Americans, need to travel about this Land called “United States Of America” and feel safe doing so!
The bill is a good start for those who need to be reminded that this right is already guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. The bill should be expanded to read that you may carry and use a firearm to protect yourself, your family, or others from serious physical harm from any reasonably perceived threat.
It’s truly a shame that we have to pass a bill to reinforce what is in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Perhaps the uniformity of laws throughout the US will take the confusion out of legal CCW.
Well now if we look at the Bill of Rights, which is supposed to be unchangeable, we have the ever given rights to bear arms. Whether it is written on a piece of parchment or not, it is our right to bear arms. Who are these people to try and take away rights? I have heard about a stand at the states capitols on April 15th, but we need to get to Wash. D.C. and camp at the Capitol with video cameras and digital cameras, tape recorders…everything that we can to record this event. Also, it needs to last a long time, I mean to not leave until we have what we want, which is our freedoms and our rights corrected. No more phone tapping and spying on American citizens. Don’t even think about touching our rights cause we are coming to the Capital on April 15th and it will not be a happy day or week or month for those trying to control us.
H. R. 17 is as important to pass as H. R. 45 is to defeat. I am surprised there are so few Nay votes. I suggest that comments be placed on the H. R. 45 page directing viewers to view and vote on H. R. 17. I hope that all are voicing their for or against comments directly to their reps even though you may think they aren’t listening. Never give up, Never surrender.
I agree with you Spencer and suggest adding a demand like this at the end of your comments:
Please respond at your earliest opportunity with a concise and definite statement of the Constitutional authority for your vote to help me better understand your reasoning if we are not in agreement.
If you have ever lived in a drug prone area (and that is every place), you would not have to ask why. HR 17 is in line with Second Amendment.
From what it looks like, there MIGHT be someone in the government that doesn’t want us to be victims of crime.
Do we really need a law to do what the 2nd Amendment already does? I believe the “shall not be infringed” part puts this issue to bed!
Please read this website http://uspatriot.blog.com/ and pass it on to anybody you care about. It’s of dire importance.
US Congress (Bill Clinton) in 1992 signed the UN Charter and Treaties including in particular Articles 55 and 56 that declare that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights are null and void.
I oppose this bill on the basis that the 2nd amendment already gives us this right. Such a bill implies we do not have that right otherwise and only Congress can grant us the rights we hold dear. I would support this in the form of a concurrent resolution though.
Completely agree. An unalienable right needs no reaffirmation or ancillary support. In fact, such a bill can be used to weaken the Second Amendment. We need to remain consistent; we have the unalienable right to keep and bear arms.
I support this bill,but I believe we already have the right to protect ourselves and family under the constitution.Bill or no bill I will shoot anybody who tries to harm me or my family!
Do we really need Congress to waste it’s time reinforcing the natural right to self defense? I have guns and I will use them in self defense regardless of what those asshats in Congress think or pass. Self defense is a natural right not one we have to have handed down to us from those useless $hitbags in DC!!!!
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We have the right to bear arms.
What happened to the second amendment? We have an absolute right to bear arms in this country!
An unalienable right needs no reaffirmation or ancillary support. In fact, such a bill can be used to weaken the Second Amendment. We need to remain consistent; we have the unalienable right to keep and bear arms.
They are simply doing and end run around this issue by going after ammunition and reloads. Then they will tax them so highly no one will be able to afford the ammunition including the police.
Sorry for being SLOW here folks but I am confused. Why in the world do we need this bill given that we already have the second amendment of the constitution – the unequivocal right to bear arms?
What am I missing here?
You know, I am beginning to think that the majority of people in Congress would not be able to pass a basic test on our Constitution.
this bill is so important. right now if you say you want to register a gun for self-defense, they wouldnt let you most likely but if you say hunting, pest control or something else then they will let you. right there a red flag should be raised.
anonymous : dont call people idiots and to get the fact straight, republicans arent part of a conspiracy, both parties are controlled. only a few represent us now a days.
Something has to be done about this government. We watch these fools be sworn in to uphold and protect the Constitution, then to turn around and try to abolish it. We people need to send Washington DC a Declaration of Independence from them. We are going through the same things that we left England for. Remember to join the TEA PARTY’S in your town on April 15th!!!!
I feel quite strongly that this bill will simply undermine our second amendment rights. No clarification is needed on whether we have the right to defend ourselves. It’s in our CONSTITUTION.
These guys are just wasting out taxpayer money.
What the 2nd amendment dose is provide a way to guarantee the previsions of the 1st amendment. It is incumbent that the people stand ready to form a new government for themselves if our government fails to “redress” the peoples “grievances”. It is reaffirmation of the Declaration of Independence in which the people took to arms against a government that had become tyrannical and give the right to the people to do the same should arise. The final straw of a tyrannical government is the confiscation of our arms that’s why it is stated “shall not be infringed”. The king 1st sought to remove arms to hold his power. 1st your rights then how to guarantee them.
I fully support this legislation. Every Citizen has the right to defend themselves and their family. I thought that the Second Amendment as well as the writing’s of the founding Fathers makes that perfectly clear. We must guard our liberties against all enemies foreign and domestic and defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Seems that our Government has forgotten who they work for.
My great fear with this bill is that it will simply undermine the second amendment. If the second amendment gives us this right to bear amrs, why is a clarification needed? Ah, the opposite side will argue you only need them for protection then? The erosion of our gun rights may begin out of sheer ignorance. Why aren’t these congressmen SCREAMING the second amendment at every opportunity instead of trying to redefine when it applies?
I don’t know whether I support this bill. We should not have to clarify our rights under the 2nd amendment. It clearly says that our right to bear arms shall not be infringed. That means we already have too much regulation as it is. I think that the passing of this bill means that when and where you CAN have a gun becomes more restricted as these specifics are legislated. Anything outside of what is “allowed”, at a later date, can be construed as illegal. ie…bye bye permit to carry.