RKBA Is a Right, Or a Government Privilege, It Can’t Be Both

by Ammoland April 03, 2013

By Bryan Potratz

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USA –-(Ammoland.com)- Regarding the recent article on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News titled “Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common, & It’s NOT Weapons” .

I hope you realize that by promoting the narrative that the coincident/corresponding “data” about psychopharma you are playing directly into the hands of the Anti-Gun crowd.

Correlation does NOT equal causation. You are a victim of statistical manipulation.

Just as the percentage of gun owners who commit “gun crime” is in the low single digits, the percentage of Psycho-Pharma patients who have abbe rant behavior are in the low single digits.

The clue is ABBERANT, and that the “black box warnings” are a Liability CYA on the part of the Drug Companies.

What most RKBA people seem to fail to understand is that, by promoting the “only crazy people take these drugs” agenda is the corollary that “crazy people shouldn’t have guns” (as per USC 18, 922 (d)(4) ) FAILS TO UNDERSTAND THE ACTUAL INTENT AND REACH of the law as defined by case law, which, under Precedent and practice means:

No person may keep, carry or maintain a Firearm OR Ammunition within the immediate vicinity of a “prohibited person” in accordance with the principle of “constructive possession” as applied by Precedent under US Law.

i.e. If you support the idea/narrative that a person taking certain drugs qualifies as a “prohibited person”, then, according to the LAW, you support the idea that EVERY PERSON IN THE “prohibited person’s’ HOUSEHOLD must ALSO be denied THEIR RKBA.

Even if they have done nothing wrong.
Even if they otherwise do not fall under the GCA/USC 18, 922.

Promoting this “Do it to Julia” (see, George Orwell, 1984) principle of appeasement will lead to the total destruction of our RKBA through incremental “legal” means.

Should “dangerous people” be kept away from things that can be used to hurt large numbers of other people? Absolutely. But it is not up to the .gov or the “medical” establishment to decide who should be a “prohibited person”.

As it (USC 18, 922) is written, a person can become a “prohibited person”, and by definition, everyone in his household is similarly “prohibited“, simply for, for example, picking up the wrong feather on Federal Land. The “law” does not distinguish between “felonies“, and its definition of “adjudicated” is open to interpretation.

It is that “openness” that endangers the ENTIRE gun owning community when USC 18, 922 is looked at in conjunction with Case Law pertaining to “Constructive Possession”.

If I’m a “prohibited person” and my kid picks up a .22 cartridge and brings it home, BOTH he & I are in violation of the USC 18, 922 statutes. He, for “providing” and me for “possessing“… even if I never see it. That’s how “constructive possession” works.

Promoting this Narrative that Prescribed Drug/Drug Class X is “bad“” and those who take it/them should be suspect is EXTREMELY damaging to RKBA… if not now, it will be as soon as Obamacare is implemented.

Either RKBA is a RIGHT, or it is a Government Privilege, secured by meeting .gov & .med requirements…

There really is no middle ground.

I had hoped better from an ostensibly “pro RKBA” organization…