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====== Local Governments Rise to the Occasion ======


The Second Amendment is our guarantee that the government can never turn the military against its citizens.


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|Our federal government is clearly out of control. \\ \\ Hardly a day goes by in which there isn’t at least one news story about our government attempting to suppress our natural rights. The federal government is attacking our freedom of speech and assembly. The Supreme Court has refused to defend our right to free and fair elections.\\ \\ Nowhere has this continued assault on our freedoms been more apparent than in the government’s attempts to curtail our right to bear arms. While the Second Amendment is worded in terms of a right to bear arms, its purpose is to codify our right to self-defense–both from personal assault and government tyranny. Put simply, the Second Amendment is our guarantee that the government can never turn our military against us.\\ \\ In their wisdom, our Founding Fathers granted power to our state and local governments as a check against federal overreach. While the federal government continues its attempts to curtail our right of self-defense, state and local governments are stepping up to protect those rights.\\ \\ We now have 21 states that have declared themselves Constitutional Carry states. In addition, 1,137 counties have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuary counties. They will not cooperate with federal curtailment of our right to bear arms. Some have even passed legislation to arrest any federal agents attempting to confiscate firearms in their jurisdiction.\\ \\ Between state and local legislation, at least 1,930 US counties are now covered by some form of Second Amendment protection. That works out to a whopping [[https://sanctuarycounties.com/2021/06/20/more-than-61-of-american-counties-are-now-second-amendment-sanctuaries/|61% of all counties]] in the United States.\\ \\ It seems our local and state governments still believe the Constitution means what it says and are defending it--not against foreign enemies, but against domestic enemies. \\ \\ That's why the Convention of States Idaho team is using Article V of the Constitution in order to save our great nation. The Article V convention process is a peaceful method to restore the balance of power, and it empowers the people--working with their state legislators--to secure our nation's future.\\ \\ #|PETITION_WIDGET{petition_tag:;coalition_id:;anedot_url:}|#|


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|Created:                 |2021-07-09 16:17 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2021-07-19 07:00 GMT|
|Published:               |2021-07-12 04:00 GMT|
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 11:58 GMT|
|Change Author:           |John Green          |
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