It's not about guns; it's about keeping control of your life.

The gun control "war" launched against American citizens and the Constitution this past week by the elites in Washington, DC, is most certainly not about keeping little Bobby and Mary Jane safe in school.

Newtown was the perfect "crisis" that the Obama elites don't want to waste in neutralizing opposition to their transformation of America into a utopian fantasy land. That sort of thing that has always evolved into a fatal disaster throughout the last century.

This past week, with great showmanship, Obama squeezed the kids like triggers; he fired them like little emotional bullets into America's heart to disrupt your ability to think clearly about what is happening to our country.

As a journalist, I lived on the anti-gun side of the national divide for most of my life without questioning. Finally, in editing a daily Opinion page, I saw all the pro- and anti- arguments and statistics. Eventually, the truth became crystal clear: the pro-gun side was right by weight of fact and reason over the anti's torrent of emotion and feelings.

If you have not already done so, contact the White House, your senators and representatives and tell them emphatically that no part of Obama's 23 executive actions or Feinstein's gun ban bill should become law.

Nothing in them will make anybody safer, but both will unacceptably infringe on Americans' right to keep and bear arms.

Don't give an inch. There is nothing reasonable or commonsense about limiting the bullet-holding capacity of magazines, or of creating "universal" background checks. The universal background check is a euphemism for backdoor gun registration which is a necessary step to eventual confiscation.

We are Americans. Our liberty was won thanks to firearms. Our Union was preserved thanks to firearms. Our grandfathers and fathers fought using firearms and kept the world free from the Nazi nightmare, which began with gun-confiscation in Europe.

The elites who want to take away your guns enjoy the protection of armed guards, and some even keep firearms of their own. If they believe what's good for them is bad for us, then we should have a big problem with their attitude.

Power corrupts.

Those who take away your guns surely will return to your door eventually, backed up by their own guns, and demand to take away even more freedom from you and your family.

If you don't stand up now, and stop them in their tracks now, it will be too late then. Keep your guns if you want to keep your freedom.

This article was originally published at MorningJournal.com. Refer to original article for related links and important documentation.

Tom Skoch is editor of The Morning Journal and MorningJournal.com, where his "Tell the Editor" blog appears.