Post by Mitch HanK Sauer on Aug 26, 2003 18:43:40 GMT -5
The Feds Want To Teach Gun Control
SOURCE:
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
www.gunowners.org
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
With Labor Day just around the corner, millions of kids will be
heading back to school. But whether you realize it or not, what
they may be taught could have a tremendously negative impact upon
your gun rights.
H.R. 1078, introduced by Rep. Roger Wicker (R-MS), would set up
Presidential Academies to train educators in teaching civics and
history. That certainly sounds innocuous enough. What's the
problem with that?
The problem is that by further centralizing the training process for
teachers, radical educators will find it much easier to excise
Second Amendment rights and other important principles from this
nation's classrooms.
The Feds have already imposed curriculum standards on the nation's
government schools with previous legislation. The result was the
publication of "guidelines" which are reflected in an anti-gun
textbook called We the People.
The guidelines and We the People are so busy teaching
multiculturalism and environmentalism that they have no time for
teaching the Tenth Amendment, which severely limits what the federal
government can do.
Is that a surprise to anyone? If kids are never taught there are
limits to the federal government's power, then we shouldn't be
surprised when tomorrow's leaders don't have problems passing gun
control legislation.
We the People does mention the Second Amendment in the section on
historical development. But it gets the student to start
questioning the wisdom of the amendment, asking the student whether
the right to keep and bear arms is still as "important today" as it
was in the eighteenth century and to decide what "limitations"
should be placed on the right.
It's bad enough that the major news media, along with TV shows and
movies, present a one-sided view of the right to keep and bear
arms. Kids growing up today are bombarded with anti-gun sentiments
and viewpoints, with few facts and little information to the
contrary.
It has often been said that today's children are the leaders of
tomorrow. One trembles in considering the perspectives these future
leaders will hold when it comes to the Bill of Rights and,
specifically, the Second Amendment.
Anti-gun propaganda has already taken root in much of our nation's
curriculum. But rather than reversing this process, H.R. 1078
writes a blank check so that teachers can be trained in the "key
events, key persons, key ideas and key documents that shaped the
institutions and democratic heritage of the United States." Right
away, we are in trouble, because America was not founded as a
democracy, but as a constitutional republic.
The reason our firearms freedoms are supposed to be secure is that
a fifty percent vote of citizens, legislators or judges cannot do
away with them. If the U.S. were a pure democracy, our liberties
would only be secure as long as a majority of the people were in
agreement.
There is no doubt that as control over education becomes more and
more federalized, the ideas which children are learning become more
and more radical. This agenda has already been seeping into
curriculum standards for years. But if H.R. 1078 passes, radical
educators will begin instructing teachers in a soon-to-be-funded
Presidential Academy.
While H.R. 1078 is currently in the Select Education Subcommittee,
its companion bill (S. 504) has already passed the Senate. But with
your help, we can protect our rights by protecting our children's
education. Let's keep H.R. 1078 from passing.
ACTION: Please urge your Representative to oppose H.R. 1078, a bill
which will contribute in dumbing down the next generation of
Americans -- at least as far as our constitutional rights are
concerned. You can contact your Representative by visiting the Gun
Owners Legislative Action Center at
www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send him or her a
pre-written e-mail message.
----- Pre-written message -----
Dear Representative ________________,
If H.R. 1078 is enacted, educators will be encouraged to teach that
I do not have an individual right to keep and bear arms. It will
establish Presidential Academies on teaching civics and history
which will use anti-gun texts like We the People -- the textbook
that conforms to the federal guidelines on teaching civics and
history.
This book encourages students to start questioning the wisdom of the
Second Amendment, asking the student whether the right to keep and
bear arms is still as "important today" as it was in the eighteenth
century and to decide what "limitations" should be placed on the
right. This kind of discussion treats the Second Amendment as
though it were not protecting a God-given, individual right.
But the individual rights view is exactly what our Founders intended
and what the American public still believes today. An ABC News Poll
in 2002 found that almost three-fourths of all Americans believe
that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the
rights of "individuals" to own guns.
We already have too much Federal involvement in education, and the
results have not been good. As control over education becomes more
and more federalized, it seems that the ideas which children are
learning become more and more radical. Please vote against
H.R. 1078, a bill which is decidedly anti-gun.
Sincerely,
****************************
Gun Owners of America is in Washington fighting for the Bill of
Rights and your Second Amendment freedoms every day.
And you can help GOA every day as well -- or at least as often as
you make a long distance phone call.
GOA has partnered with Promise Vision, one of America's major long
distance telephone providers. Every long distance call made by a
GOA customer of Promise Vision results in a 15% payment to GOA.
Unlike patronizing ATT, Sprint or MCI, patrons of Promise Vision
have none of their moneys filtered to anti-gun candidates.
Promise Vision offers different and competitive rate plans,
depending on one's long distance volume.
You can help yourself and help GOA by using Promise Vision. For
details or to sign up, please see
www.pvpromisevision.com/sign_up_now4.htm or call the special
GOA/Promise Vision toll-free phone number 866-458-9111.
****************************
SOURCE:
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
www.gunowners.org
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
With Labor Day just around the corner, millions of kids will be
heading back to school. But whether you realize it or not, what
they may be taught could have a tremendously negative impact upon
your gun rights.
H.R. 1078, introduced by Rep. Roger Wicker (R-MS), would set up
Presidential Academies to train educators in teaching civics and
history. That certainly sounds innocuous enough. What's the
problem with that?
The problem is that by further centralizing the training process for
teachers, radical educators will find it much easier to excise
Second Amendment rights and other important principles from this
nation's classrooms.
The Feds have already imposed curriculum standards on the nation's
government schools with previous legislation. The result was the
publication of "guidelines" which are reflected in an anti-gun
textbook called We the People.
The guidelines and We the People are so busy teaching
multiculturalism and environmentalism that they have no time for
teaching the Tenth Amendment, which severely limits what the federal
government can do.
Is that a surprise to anyone? If kids are never taught there are
limits to the federal government's power, then we shouldn't be
surprised when tomorrow's leaders don't have problems passing gun
control legislation.
We the People does mention the Second Amendment in the section on
historical development. But it gets the student to start
questioning the wisdom of the amendment, asking the student whether
the right to keep and bear arms is still as "important today" as it
was in the eighteenth century and to decide what "limitations"
should be placed on the right.
It's bad enough that the major news media, along with TV shows and
movies, present a one-sided view of the right to keep and bear
arms. Kids growing up today are bombarded with anti-gun sentiments
and viewpoints, with few facts and little information to the
contrary.
It has often been said that today's children are the leaders of
tomorrow. One trembles in considering the perspectives these future
leaders will hold when it comes to the Bill of Rights and,
specifically, the Second Amendment.
Anti-gun propaganda has already taken root in much of our nation's
curriculum. But rather than reversing this process, H.R. 1078
writes a blank check so that teachers can be trained in the "key
events, key persons, key ideas and key documents that shaped the
institutions and democratic heritage of the United States." Right
away, we are in trouble, because America was not founded as a
democracy, but as a constitutional republic.
The reason our firearms freedoms are supposed to be secure is that
a fifty percent vote of citizens, legislators or judges cannot do
away with them. If the U.S. were a pure democracy, our liberties
would only be secure as long as a majority of the people were in
agreement.
There is no doubt that as control over education becomes more and
more federalized, the ideas which children are learning become more
and more radical. This agenda has already been seeping into
curriculum standards for years. But if H.R. 1078 passes, radical
educators will begin instructing teachers in a soon-to-be-funded
Presidential Academy.
While H.R. 1078 is currently in the Select Education Subcommittee,
its companion bill (S. 504) has already passed the Senate. But with
your help, we can protect our rights by protecting our children's
education. Let's keep H.R. 1078 from passing.
ACTION: Please urge your Representative to oppose H.R. 1078, a bill
which will contribute in dumbing down the next generation of
Americans -- at least as far as our constitutional rights are
concerned. You can contact your Representative by visiting the Gun
Owners Legislative Action Center at
www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send him or her a
pre-written e-mail message.
----- Pre-written message -----
Dear Representative ________________,
If H.R. 1078 is enacted, educators will be encouraged to teach that
I do not have an individual right to keep and bear arms. It will
establish Presidential Academies on teaching civics and history
which will use anti-gun texts like We the People -- the textbook
that conforms to the federal guidelines on teaching civics and
history.
This book encourages students to start questioning the wisdom of the
Second Amendment, asking the student whether the right to keep and
bear arms is still as "important today" as it was in the eighteenth
century and to decide what "limitations" should be placed on the
right. This kind of discussion treats the Second Amendment as
though it were not protecting a God-given, individual right.
But the individual rights view is exactly what our Founders intended
and what the American public still believes today. An ABC News Poll
in 2002 found that almost three-fourths of all Americans believe
that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the
rights of "individuals" to own guns.
We already have too much Federal involvement in education, and the
results have not been good. As control over education becomes more
and more federalized, it seems that the ideas which children are
learning become more and more radical. Please vote against
H.R. 1078, a bill which is decidedly anti-gun.
Sincerely,
****************************
Gun Owners of America is in Washington fighting for the Bill of
Rights and your Second Amendment freedoms every day.
And you can help GOA every day as well -- or at least as often as
you make a long distance phone call.
GOA has partnered with Promise Vision, one of America's major long
distance telephone providers. Every long distance call made by a
GOA customer of Promise Vision results in a 15% payment to GOA.
Unlike patronizing ATT, Sprint or MCI, patrons of Promise Vision
have none of their moneys filtered to anti-gun candidates.
Promise Vision offers different and competitive rate plans,
depending on one's long distance volume.
You can help yourself and help GOA by using Promise Vision. For
details or to sign up, please see
www.pvpromisevision.com/sign_up_now4.htm or call the special
GOA/Promise Vision toll-free phone number 866-458-9111.
****************************