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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ?"
Richard Henry Lee
"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; ?"
Samuel Adams
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ? Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine
Tony, you need to read the Federalist Papers and quit harping on the left BULLSHIT that can't fucking understand them. Tony, you're smarter than that!
Or maybe you can't understand this "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- (Thomas Jefferson)
Anyone can go in a get a restraining against you and while waiting for the court date, your right to own a gun has been taken away, without seeing a judge, without even seeing a court house, someone can take away your constitutional rights!
Guys with box cutters killed almost 3,000 people in one day, 9/11
Guy with a rental truck full of shit killed 168 people in one day
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http://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/21...mendment-lies/
Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is driven, in part, by a false notion that America?s Founders adopted the Second Amendment because they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.S. government. The opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to have embraced this absurd, anti-historical narrative.
The reality was that the Framers wrote the Constitution and added the Second Amendment with the goal of creating a strong central government with a citizens-based military force capable of putting down insurrections, not to enable or encourage uprisings. The key Framers, after all, were mostly men of means with a huge stake in an orderly society, the likes of George Washington and James Madison.
President George Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, leading a combined force of state militias against the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.
The men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 weren?t precursors to France?s Robespierre or Russia?s Leon Trotsky, believers in perpetual revolutions. In fact, their work on the Constitution was influenced by the experience of Shays? Rebellion in western Massachusetts in 1786, a populist uprising that the weak federal government, under the Articles of Confederation, lacked an army to defeat.