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VA
Unconstitutionally Tries To
Disarm Veterans
Guns:
Veterans who bore arms to
defend their country are receiving letters that they may be declared
mentally
incompetent and have their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms
stripped from them. Welcome home.
The
contempt by the Obama
administration for our Constitution and our rights has reached a new
low with
news the Veterans Administration has begun sending letters to veterans
telling
them they will be declared mentally incompetent and stripped of the
Second
Amendment rights unless they can prove to unnamed bureaucrats to the
contrary.
On
Thursday, Michael Connelly,
executive director of the United States Justice Foundation, said
veterans have
begun getting warning letters from the Veterans Administration (VA).
The
letters inform the recipients that he or she must provide evidence to
the
contrary within 60 days. If the veteran desires a hearing, they must
inform the
VA within 30 days.
"A
determination of incompetency
will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or
transporting a
firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these
prohibitions, you
may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to the Brady Handgun
Violence
Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as implemented at 18, United States
Code
924(a)(2)," the letter reads.
The
VA states on its Fiduciary
Program website that, according to the Brady Handgun Violence
Prevention Act,
signed into law in 1993, being determined as unable to manage your
benefits
prevents you from owning and possessing a firearm or ammunition.
While
mental health is a factor in
the current gun control debate and recent mass shootings in Newtown,
Conn., and
Aurora, Colo., and elsewhere have in common the questionable mental
state of
the shooters, to single out returning vets from Iraq and Afghanistan
this way
is unconscionable and unconstitutional.
No
one wants the mentally unstable
to possess firearms, but neither do we want to see the presumption of
innocence
or the right to due process guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution
taken away.
The Fifth Amendment states that no person shall "... be deprived of
life,
liberty, or property without due process of law." The VA seems to be
violating these rights to take away those guaranteed under the Second
Amendment.
Returning
vets were seen as
vulnerable to "right-wing extremists" in an April 2009 report by
Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security Dept., titled "Rightwing
Extremism:
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in
Radicalization and
Recruitment".
"Returning
veterans possess
combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing
extremists," it says. "(Department of Homeland Security's Office of
Intelligence and Analysis) is concerned that right-wing extremists will
attempt
to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent
capacities."
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