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I am a strong believer in the most basic of individual human rights, the right of free speech and the right of self-defense, which includes the corollary right to acquire, possess and use the tools necessary to exercise those rights. -JROn every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."In communist China, permits and licenses are required to own and use a typewriter, copy machine, and the other tools of free speech. In the United States of America, permits and licenses are now required to own and use the tools of self-defense.
This is an anathema to a free state!
See the following three videos for a great definition of 2A Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Need a little more convincing?
Suzanna Gratia Hupp will live the rest of her life with regret. Had she been carrying her gun the day a madman executed her parents while she cowered helplessly and then fled, she is convinced she could have stopped one of the worst massacres in U.S. history.
Still not ready to protect your self and family?
After you've seen the above, and still do not trust yourself with a life saving tool, that's also your "right", but please don't interfere with the rest of us who are able and willing to protect your cowardly ass, and that of your family.Like learning to swim, or eliminating the fear of flying, the fear of firearms can be trained out of you. If you have no family and wish to go defenseless into the world, that's up to you, but if you have a family and through fear or ignorance, push their safety off to others, you are the worst kind of coward!
If you’ve decided to be a citizen, with all the rights thereof - and not just a subject, with only the privileges temporarily offered you by your masters, you may seek a little help and advice with your newly accepted rights and responsibilities.
Scroll down past the following quotes for a little help and advice.
The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the
right of the people at large or considered as
individuals.... It establishes some rights of the
individual as unalienable and which consequently, no
majority has a right to deprive them of.
(Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789)
The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been
recognized by the General Government; but the best security
of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste
for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the
free citizens of these States....Such men form the best
barrier to the liberties of America.
(Gazette of the United States, October 14, 1789.)
No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
(Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution,
Jefferson Papers)
The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not
be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the
body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most
natural defense of a free country.
(James Madison, Annals of Congress [June 8, 1789])
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people
themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
(Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal
Farmer [1788])
What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the
establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty....
Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties
of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia,
in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
(Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the
Second Amendment. Annals of Congress [August
17, 1789])
To disarm the people - that was the best and most
effectual way to enslave them.
(George Mason)
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -
unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments
are afraid to trust the people with arms.
(James Madison)
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be
disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe.
The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by
the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed,
and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular
troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United
States.
(Noah Webster)
But if circumstances should at any time oblige the
government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can
never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while
there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior
to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to
defend their rights
(Alexander Hamilton)
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans
possess over the people of almost every other nation. . .
Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several
kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public
resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust
the people with arms.
(James Madison)
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before
them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces
which must be occasionally raised to defend our country,
might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow
citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their
right to keep and bear their private arms.
(Tench Coxe)
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their
swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier,
are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power
of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or
state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever
remain, in the hands of the people.
(Tench Coxe)
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution
could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to
Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious
attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a
state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate
power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be
appealed to as a restraint on both.
(William Rawle, 1829)
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people,
except for few public officials.
(George Mason)
The Constitution shall never be construed....to prevent
the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens
from keeping their own arms.
(Samuel Adams)
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of
people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially
when young, how to use them.
(Richard Henry Lee, 1788)
The great object is that every man be armed and everyone
who is able may have a gun.
(Patrick Henry)
The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They
are left in full possession of them.
(Zachariah Johnson)
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing
degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our
defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in
possession and under our direction, and having them under
the management of Congress? If our defense be the real
object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be
trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in
our own hands?
(Patrick Henry)
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is
that they be properly armed.
(Alexander Hamilton)
That the said Constitution shall never be 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)
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers
are not warned from time to time that this people preserve
the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of
liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood
of patriots and tyrants.
(Thomas Jefferson)
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up
that force, you are inevitably ruined.
(Patrick Henry)
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)
The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains
evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all
that is good.
(George Washington)
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of
exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate
exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and
independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and
others of that nature, are too violent for the body and
stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be
the constant companion of your walks.
(Thomas Jefferson)
The supposed quietude of a good mans allures the ruffian;
while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep
the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in
the world as well 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 one half the
world deprived of the use of them.
(Thomas Paine)
Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are
masters of the state, and have it in their power to make
what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to
observations on the difference between the measures likely
to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and
those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
(Aristotle)
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the
people. The possession of arms is the distinction between
a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself
belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property
he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own
master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms
to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives
precariously, and at discretion.
(James Burgh)
What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers
are not warned from time to time that their people preserve
the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.
(Thomas Jefferson)
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in
Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only
with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be
perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it
be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid
to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few
men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their
amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their
country.
(Timothy Dwight)
You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed
because, among other reasons, people despise you....There is
simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who
is not. It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man
should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man
should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.
In the latter case, there will be suspicion on the one hand
and contempt on the other, making cooperation impossible.
(Niccolo Machiavelli)
As much as I oppose the average person's having a gun, I
recognize that some people have a legitimate need to own
one. A wealthy corporate executive who fears his family
might get kidnapped is one such person. A Hollywood
celebrity who has to protect himself from kooks is another.
If Sharon Tate had had access to a gun during the Manson
killings, some innocent lives might have been saved.
(Joseph D. McNamara - San Jose, CA Police Chief Ret.)
To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm .
. . is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional
right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable
men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns,
the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows,
and not by a general deprivation of constitutional
privilege.
(Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557)
The provision in the Constitution granting the right to all
persons to bear arms is a limitation upon the power of the
Legislature to enact any law to the contrary. The exercise
of a right guaranteed by the Constitution cannot be made
subject to the will of the sheriff.
(People vs. Zerillo, 219)
The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most
essential one to every free people and should not be
whittled down by technical constructions.
(State vs. Kerner, 181)
The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of
himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it
from the State government. It is one of the "high powers"
delegated directly to the citizen, and is excepted out of
the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to
infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and
independent of the lawmaking power.
(Cockrum v. State, 24)
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The three firearms every adult should own and be proficient with.
“I respect the citizen who owns guns – I fear the citizen with but one.” One might ask, “What about the person who owns no guns at all?” To that I say, “A person without arms is not a citizen, he is but a subject – and while ignorant is deserving of my pitty & help, but after enlightenment, still elects to remain reliant on others for their safety, deserves only my scorn and derision.” -JR
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