Presidential fiat - gun control next?

Maybe, just maybe, we who are concerned about the Second Amendment should read the following more than once and consider "What if...?"

Last week President Obama, with a stroke of a pen, blew $100,000,000 of our money to give federal government workers the day off - December 24. One Hundred Million Dollars. OK, so it's just 25 times the estimate of his short Christmas (is it Muslim or holiday) vacation will cost us. What did your Christmas cost you?

Read Joseph Farah's What If scenario.

What if Obama signed such a presidential order? Think anyone is going to walk over to the Woodstock Police Department and hand in his semi-automatic rifle or pistol? Well, a few will.

What about the rest?

What will you do? Hide your weapons? Refuse to answer the door? Just tell the cops to go away and read the Constitution and the Constitutional Amendments? Will that be good enough?

A while back I wrote about the NRA's pledge that it hoped many local governments would take. It is this: “I, ______________, will never, by use of force or any other means, confiscate firearms lawfully possessed by the citizens of my community.”

The problem, of course, is if one person, only one person (Obama), tries to change the law of the land with a stroke of a pen, then we gun owners no longer lawfully possess firearms. And then the police start showing up at doors.

Go to the Woodstock City website and click on "City Council". (Don't hover over it, which will then show you Agendas and Minutes (but not names and addresses).) Look at the list of names.

Who on that list would sign the above Pledge? Look carefully at the list. Is there one person on the list who would sign that Pledge? Look at the names.

Mayor Brian Sager, Council members Dick Ahrens (Dick Ahrens will be replaced by Joe Starzynski this spring), Julie Dillon, Maureen Larson, RB Thompson, Mark Saladin, Mike Turner.

Do you see four who will stand up for your Second Amendment rights? Do you see even one?

Will the City Manager stand up for your rights? Not unless the Mayor says okay. Will the police chief stand up for your rights? Not unless the City Manager tells him to. Will individual cops stand up for your rights? Not unless they want to get fired for insubordination (refusing to follow orders) and join the ranks of the unemployed.