PETITION TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CITIZENS OF THE VARIOUS STATES AND DISTRICTS COMPRISING THE UNITED STATES
Whereas U.S. Representative Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) has recently publicly stated his intention to draft Federal legislation exempting members of the U.S. Congress from certain firearms, ammunition and weapons regulations in the District of Columbia; and...
Whereas Mr. Gohmert has correctly stated that "There is some protection in having protection..." and that the U.S. Supreme Court has rightly characterized the firearm, especially the handgun, as the "quintessential means of self-defense" in previous rulings; and...
Whereas the need for self-defense is continuous, permeating every facet of one's life without regard to the activities being conducted at any particular moment; and...
Whereas it is proven daily that "gun free zones" established through the artifice of legislation simply do not afford any protection nor provide any form of security whatsoever, but instead have the simple effect of leaving one defenseless against villainy; and...
Whereas the personal right of self-defense comes not from legislation but is instead inherent in and an integral part of the state of being known as "human existence" as recognized by the Principles and Truths upon which our great country was founded; and...
Whereas our Federal government was established, exists and has been empowered to secure and protect such inherent rights, privileges and immunities for all the People of our great nation; and...
Whereas the Bill of Rights, Amendment 2 of the U.S. Constitution states "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed"; and...
Whereas said Amendment 2 is a restriction and limit on the power of the Federal government to include the U.S. Congress, always has been since its inception and continues as a restriction and limit on such power to the present day; and...
Whereas the Congress of the United States exercises exclusive legislative power within the District of Columbia in accordance with Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution for the United States of America...
We the People of the United States of America and citizens of the various States and Districts comprising the United States of America do hereby require and demand the Congress of the United States to recognize, fulfill and adhere to the Sacred Trust by which said Congress has been empowered, by...
Recognizing the limits of power to which the United States Congress has been established; and...
To adhere to those limits, especially as regards the exercise of exlusive legislative power within the District of Columbia; and...
To publicly declare that all infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms within the District of Columbia exist in violation of the Sacred Trust to which said Congress has been established and empowered; and...
To forthwith immediately remove all infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms which currently exist within the District of Columbia; and...
To never again establish such infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms within the District of Columbia...
Furthermore, let it be publicly and widely known that the very thought of keeping such infringements on the fundamental right of self-defense in place within the District of Columbia while making members of Congress exempt from the burden of such infringements, thereby elevating these our public servants above us, we the People who have established and empowered them, is utterly and completely repugnant to us; and...
Let it further be known that such self-elevation by our public servants is considered by us to be a vile betrayal of the Principles and Truths upon which our great nation was founded; and...
Let it also be known throughout the Congress that we the People of the United States and the citizens of the various States and Districts comprising our nation have patiently suffered while our public servants have enagaged in a pattern of repeated abuses of the Sacred Trust by which they are empowered; and...
Further, that we the People will no longer sit idly by in our suffering while such abuses are perpetuated, but will instead use any and all political, legislative and judicial means at our disposal to correct these wrongs until our grievances are satisfied.