I don’t know where you are politically, but if you’re reading this blog there is a good chance you own a gun, carry a gun for self defense, or believe you should have the right to if you choose.  However, we are facing the real threat from our President and those in his camp, who would like to take away that right along with many other rights you now enjoy.

Today is November 28, 2011 and we are now less than 12 months from the election of the next President of the United States of America.  We’ve clearly seen the agenda of our sitting President, Barack Obama, and know that he would like to “fundamentally change” our country. In fact he’s already done that, but not without the resistance of many constitutionalists, patriots, libertarians, republicans and even some democrats.  Because of those of us who stand up for the constitution, the fundamental change has been less severe than it could have been.

You may or not be passionate about politics, but you need to understand that politics will change your life dramatically.  I’m not just talking about whether you can choose your favorite light bulb, the car you want to drive, if you can own land, start a business, access health care, or be successful as an entrepreneur.  These are things I’m passionate about, but I realize that you may have different opinions completely.

I’m talking about the attacks on the very basic constitutional rights our founding father’s risked their lives fighting for, then put them into the constitution to make sure they would be remembered.  These rights guaranteed by our constitution are being attacked by our President & by his party and the undermined by judges who believe they are above the laws and the representatives we elected to write them.  They seek to overturn the law & the constitution through judicial activism…and their getting closer!

“Yeah, it is exciting that Wisconsin became the 49th State to allow concealed carry, but don’t think for a minute that that couldn’t be taken away with the swipe of the pen or crash of a gavel.  If you aren’t willing to stand up  for your rights when you have them, you have no right to complain when they are taken away.”

~ Concealed Wisconsin  Listener

Please read the following article by Chris Cox, published on October 11, 2011, and leave a comment at the bottom of the page.  Share this on Facebook, twitter, or where ever you socialize online!

Andy – Host of Concealed Wisconsin

By Chris Cox (10/11/11)
Executive Director, National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action

Nearly three years into President Obama’s first term in office, Michelle Obama finally said something with which I can agree.

At a recent fundraiser for President Obama’s re-election campaign in Providence, Rhode Island, the first lady told her audience:

“We stand at a fundamental crossroads for our country. You’re here because you know that in just 13 months, we’re going to make a choice that will impact our lives for decades to come … let’s not forget what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices … let’s not forget the impact that their decisions will have on our lives for decades to come.”

This was music to the ears of the small, affluent crowd of admirers who cheered and applauded. But to gun owners, Michelle Obama’s remarks should sound like a warning bell, alerting us to the danger ahead should Barack Obama win re-election and get the opportunity to alter the current make-up of the Supreme Court.

When Americans flock to the polls in 13 months, we will not simply decide which direction our country should take over the next four years. Rather, we will decide whether or not our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms will survive over the next several decades.

Currently, the Second Amendment clings to a 5-4 pro-freedom majority on the Supreme Court. Just one vote is all that stands between the America our Founding Fathers established and a radically different America that Barack Obama and his supporters envision.

If you want to read something scary, take another look at the minority opinions in the Supreme Court’s landmark Heller and McDonald decisions that struck down Washington, D.C.’s and Chicago’s unconstitutional gun bans. In the Heller dissent, four justices concluded that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to own a firearm, nor does it protect our right to defend ourselves, our families, or our property. In McDonald, the same four justices argued that the 5-4 Heller decision should be reversed.

If these four justices had just one more vote on their side, their opinion — that the Second Amendment should not exist in today’s modern society — would be the law of the land today. And assuredly, the anti-gun activist wing of the court knows how close they are to gaining the upper hand. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Harvard Club audience in 2009, she looks forward to the day when a “future, wiser court” overturns 5-4 decisions like Heller.

Praying for the health of five justices is not a sound legal strategy for ensuring that our Second Amendment freedoms survive the relentless legal assault that gun-ban groups are waging in courtrooms across America. We need a president who will nominate sound, originalist nominees to the high court — nominees who will preserve the freedoms our Founding Fathers enshrined in our Constitution.

If President Obama gets the opportunity to tilt the balance of the Supreme Court in his favor, we’re unlikely to see another pro-gun victory at the Court in our lifetime. Even worse, the 5-4 majorities in Heller and McDonald will be in serious jeopardy of being reversed, effectively eliminating the Second Amendment.

NRA members, gun owners and all freedom-loving Americans should heed Michelle Obama’s warning. We must spend the next 13 months working to make sure her husband doesn’t get four more years to destroy American freedom for generations to come.

Chris W. Cox is the Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.