Boston Tea Party Founder and At-Large Member Tom Knapp Introduces Pro-Second Amendment Resolution to the BTPNC

Boston Tea Party founder and At-Large Member Thomas L. Knapp has introduced an excellent pro-Second Amendment resolution to the party's own National Committee discussion list on Yahoo Groups. Seconds later, he issued an amendment to his resolution removing the word "both" in the phrase "it is both the constitutional obligation." I seconded this revised version of the moved resolution just seconds after he sent it to the list.

Here are the original and amended versions of the resolution. Either way, it's an outstanding one, given Attorney Generalissimo Eric Holder's promise to restore the old, god-awful 1994 assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. (Here's former BTP Chairman Jim Davidson's assessment of Holder's plan to revive the expired gun law.)

Here's the original version of the resolution:

Whereas, every man, woman, and responsible child is possessed of a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and constitutional right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- handgun, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, anything -- any time, anywhere, without asking anyone's permission; and

Whereas it is both the constitutional obligation of government to respect and defend, rather than suppress, that right; and

Whereas all attempts by government to institute measures of victim disarmament, a/k/a "gun control," are illegal, unconstitutional, subversive of public safety and morally repugnant;

Be it resolved that the Boston Tea Party opposes all new victim disarmament legislation and all attempts to re-impose past victim disarmament schemes, including but not limited to the Obama administration's contemplated re-introduction of an "assault weapons" ban.

Here's the revised version that's currently pending and is to be discussed later today:

Whereas, every man, woman, and responsible child is possessed of a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and constitutional right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- handgun, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, anything -- any time, anywhere, without asking anyone's permission; and

Whereas it is the constitutional obligation of government to respect and defend, rather than suppress, that right; and

Whereas all attempts by government to institute measures of victim disarmament, a/k/a "gun control," are illegal, unconstitutional, subversive of public safety and morally repugnant;

Be it resolved that the Boston Tea Party opposes all new victim disarmament legislation and all attempts to re-impose past victim disarmament schemes, including but not limited to the Obama administration's contemplated re-introduction of an "assault weapons" ban.

Any BTP member and liberty lover is encouraged to spread this far and wide as much as possible.

[Cross-posted to The Freeman Chronicles.]