We will NOT disarm.

Minuteman Right to Keep and Bear Arms ^ | January 2, 2013 | Tom Hoefling

[EternalVigilance]

For four hundred years in this country, my family has had a well-earned reputation for being well-armed, and of not being afraid to use those arms if life, liberty, property, or their communities were threatened.

I'm a descendent of Alice Proctor, the wife of Virginia ancient planter John Proctor. In the Indian attacks and massacres of 1622 in which as many as a third of the Virginians were killed, John was in England, and she and her household held off the savages for a month. The British officers threatened to burn down the Proctor Plantation if she didn't remove herself from the frontier back to Pace's Paines, which she then had to do, but the Indians knew better than to ever come anywhere close to her or her family again.

A few generations later, at the start of the Revolution, five Proctor brothers, including my forebear Little Page Proctor, were part of the Virginia militia that secured the NW wilderness against the British-allied tribes. They were among the forty men with Daniel Boone who held off more than 400 Indians for ten days at Boonesborough, in what became Kentucky.

They knew that when it came down to it they had to depend on themselves and their neighbors, not on some far-off government.

Anyone who thinks it is fundamentally any different now is fooling themselves.

We will NOT disarm. Our natural rights, the right of self-defense being foremost, were given to us by God Himself, and Barack Obama and Dianne Feinstein are NOT welcome to them.

“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can."

- Samuel Adams

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

- The Declaration of Independence

[Jotmo]

I hate to disappoint you, but what is now known as the “second” amendment was originally the third or forth, (don’t remember for sure).

The proposed bill rights had twelve amendments. They were in no particular order.

[Lancey Howard]

The proposed bill rights had twelve amendments. They were in no particular order.

Nonsense.

[Lancey Howard]

Oops. I reread your post and realized I misunderstood you.

Yes, the original 12 amendments submitted by Madison (I don’t believe they were referred to upon submission to the states as a “Bill of Rights”, but I may be wrong) included two amendments which were not agreed to at the time and were dropped. Those were the original first two amendments and they pertained to 1) a representative-to-population/ ratio, and 2) pay raises for legislators. (That second one was finally ratified as the 27th about 20 years ago.)

The first nine of the ten amendments which were ratified at the time were ordered in accordance with their closest reference points within the text of the Constitution, and it could be argued that the original text itself was “ordered” by importance from the view of the framers. That tenth amendment was basically a capstone which reiterated that this “Bill of Rights” is essentially a formality and actually isn’t needed at all because all rights are inalienable anyway. I guess the tenth amendment was a nod to the anti-federalists.

In my opinion the Bill of Rights turned out to be a very lucky afterthought.
I can’t imagine what the scumbag government would have done to squash the people and their rights without it.

FRegards,
LH