NO COMPROMISE ON FEDERAL GUN CONTROL

I, the signatory of this petition, do hereby affirm that:

• Whereas, President Barack Obama, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, billionaire Michael Bloomberg and others are exploiting national tragedies to promote a pre-ordained agenda to end the private ownership of firearms;

• Whereas, gun control advocates continue to propagate falsehoods with respect to the nature and scope of the Second Amendment, gun owners, how criminals obtain guns, violent crime, the number of defensive gun uses by lawful citizens, and other information crucial to the public policy debate over firearms;

• Whereas, none of the gun control measures being proposed, including so-called “Universal Background Checks” would have prevented recent shootings being highlighted by the media;

• Whereas, since 1950 all but two mass homicides have occurred in supposedly “gun free” victim disarmament zones where violent predators know they can kill with impunity;

• Whereas, a survey of 15,000 law enforcement officers by law enforcement advocacy group PoliceOne found that 86% of officers believe arming citizens could have reduced or altogether eliminated innocent casualties in mass homicides; and

• Whereas, as intended by the Framers and affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in Heller v. D.C. and McDonald v. Chicago, the Second Amendment reinforces an individual right to keep and bear arms;

I hereby demand that members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate use all means, procedural or substantive, to defeat any legislation introduced or amended to curtail, restrict or qualify private ownership of firearms, and to oppose any executive order issued to that end. I will accept no compromise on this issue, and call upon elected representatives to work toward eliminating so-called “gun free” zones to deter violent predators and allow citizens to better protect themselves and their families.