Roy G. Callahan, USN, Ret.

1529 NW 143rd Street Gainesville, Florida 32606 Tel: (352) 332-9144 Fax: (352) 332-9144 Call6603@Bellsouth.net

Monday, April 15, 2013 Senator Marco Rubio 317 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Rubio and Nelson, As you begin to debate so-called gun legislation please consider the following four points: 1. The nature of this legislation. This is NOT gun legislation this is 2nd Amendment legislation. Our right to bear arms is a RIGHT given to us by God, not a privilege granted through legislation. It is not something that is up for legislative control. Would we so easily accept religion legislation? 2. The sanctity of the 2nd Amendment. Senator Bill Nelson 716 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20510

What does the phrase shall not be infringed mean? The words are not complicated, they are not elusive. In the legal world, when a judge sees the words shall not there is no discussion to be had. It means, literally SHALL NOT, completely disallowed, impermissible. It should mean the same to Congress. Noah Webster defined the word infringed as to break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey. The right to bears arms shall not be broken, shall not be violated, shall not be transgressed. The 2nd amendment shall be fulfilled, shall be obeyed. That is a very clear boundary, not mutable in any way. You dont need to fully eradicate something for it to be violated or transgressed. Simply placing a hand on something can violate the sanctity of that object. Therefore, the only correct answer to the question, what does shall not be infringed mean? is as follows: The right to bear arms SHALL NOT be touched! 3. The purpose of the 2nd amendment. WHY do we have the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights? Contrary to popular belief, the 2nd Amendment is not for hunting, skeet shooting, gun-collecting nor even self-defense from robbers and muggers. The framers of this nation made it extremely clear why this right is to be protected. According to George Mason, we bear arms to keep from becoming slaves to our government: [W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advise to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. According to Noah Webster, we bear arms to prevent the government from using a standing army to enforce unjust, unconstitutional, and oppressive laws on the people: Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmedThe supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armedA force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutionaljealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which a ppears to them unjust and oppressive Page 1 of 2

According to Richard Henry Lee, we bear arms to preserve Liberty: [W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms According to Patrick Henry, we bear arms to overthrow tyrants: O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone...Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation...inflicted by those who had no power at all. It is notable that the framers declared a right to bear arms not a right to own muskets. Arms meant the same to them as did to the Supreme Court in 1939. (See United States v. Miller, 307, 174 (U.S 1939) issuing the opinion recognizing that the second amendment protects the peoples right to bear the same arms as the military.) Therefore, the only correct answer as to WHY our right to bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights is as follows: The whole body of the people has the right to bear arms to preserve liberty, prevent the government from enforcing unjust, unconstitutional, oppressive laws; to keep from becoming enslaved by our government and to overthrow tyrants. 4. The process for altering the 2nd amendment. This legislation, being 2nd Amendment legislation, is wholly unconstitutional as the 2nd Amendment can ONLY be modified through the Amendment Process. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) NRA A rated; Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) NRA A rated; Richard Burr (N.C.) NRA A rated; Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) NRA A rated; Tom Coburn (Okla.) NRA A rated; Susan Collins (Maine) NRA C+ rated; Bob Corker (Tenn.) NRA A rated; Jeff Flake (Ariz.) NRA A rated; Lindsey Graham (S.C.) NRA A rated; Dean Heller (Nev.) NRA A rated; John Hoeven (N.D.) NRA A rated; Johnny Isakson (Ga.) NRA A rated; Mark Kirk (Ill.) NRA F rated; John McCain (Ariz.) NRA B+ rated; Pat Toomey (Pa.) NRA A rated; Roger Wicker (Miss.) NRA A+ rated all violated their constitutional oaths. The reasoning and moral relativism it took to make them violate their oaths makes me suspect they are capable of condoning this and other acts like it. Their lamenting the tragedy of Sandy Hook where 20 children and 6 adults were senselessly killed while allowing, consilent while deaths like this condoning, tolerating, and standing tinue to occur tells me I better hang onto my bible and guns. (54,559,615 and counting.) If you continue down this unconstitutional path in your assault upon the Liberty of the American people and upon the foundations of this nation, you will be marked as a tyrant and an enemy of Liberty. We the people, being the only legitimate source of power in this nation, demand that you honor your oath to support and defend the Constitution. Yours in the Bill of Rights,

Roy G. Callahan Florida Legislature et al. Fax copy Federal Senate Republicans

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