Posted on 04/07/2013 11:27:25 AM PDT by B4Ranch
This man has put down on paper what many people are thinking but are too cautious to express openly. I hope it never comes to what he is advocating but I can certainly see where the possibility exists. God help us all if it ever does happen.
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the author:
Dean Garrison (born 1955) is a contemporary American author and crime fiction novelist. He was born in Michigan, grew up in the Indiana, Illinois, and Texas, and received his B.A. degree from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. Garrison is a Crime Scene Technician in West Michigan. His research in the fields of crime scene investigation and Shooting Reconstruction are widely published in forensic journals under the name "D.H. Garrison, Jr."
Um, guns? I have a caulking gun. No? Can’t help you then. Sorry. Adios muchachas.
YES! YES! YES!
The choice has already been made, and by many more than just myself...
Former FR member ROTB would argue you have a responsibility NOT to fight. Unfortunately for ROTB, he/she got themselves banned.
From Rudyard Kipling, a year after the end of The Great War:
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
Americans went to war once against a tryannical government set on gun control. I fear it may be necessay to do so again.
Read...........
The American Revolution against British Gun Control
By David B. Kopel*
Administrative and Regulatory Law News (American Bar Association). Vol. 37, no. 4, Summer 2012. More by Kopel on the right to arms in the Founding Era.
This Article reviews the British gun control program that precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events that changed a situation of political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment.
Furious at the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, Parliament in 1774 passed the Coercive Acts. The particular provisions of the Coercive Acts were offensive to Americans, but it was the possibility that the British might deploy the army to enforce them that primed many colonists for armed resistance. The Patriots of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved: “That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles.” A South Carolina newspaper essay, reprinted in Virginia, urged that any law that had to be enforced by the military was necessarily illegitimate.
The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, had forbidden town meetings from taking place more than once a year. When he dispatched the Redcoats to break up an illegal town meeting in Salem, 3000 armed Americans appeared in response, and the British retreated. Gage’s aide John Andrews explained that everyone in the area aged 16 years or older owned a gun and plenty of gunpowder.
Military rule would be difficult to impose on an armed populace. Gage had only 2,000 troops in Boston. There were thousands of armed men in Boston alone, and more in the surrounding area. One response to the problem was to deprive the Americans of gunpowder.
more....
http://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html
He sums up the situation quite well, except it is more like a duty, in my opinion.
Otherwise I will silently accept my slavery and watch as America is disemboweled and redistibuted to the rest of the world
Pfl
The part about two Wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch,,,
did He really say That?
There are 50 million gun owners, shouldn’t be hard to get 9,999 to join me.
This is SERIOUS “food for thought”. One day, THE choice may have to be made.
F yes
Under the Bill of Rights, two wolves discuss with an ARMED lamb what to have for lunch, and the rights of the minority are protected.
One alone cannot take on the massive federal government.
However, from the patriots of the American Revolution to the Vietcong to the French Resistance, history has given us a blueprint on how to combat a superior force.
Bleed them mercilessly.
When they come for my GUNS if you want a good show, then hide in the weeds and watch the fire works. . . .
Some say yes, some say no ! No matter I like it !
>>If more than 10,000 throw in I’m all over it.
Otherwise I will silently accept my slavery and watch as America is disemboweled and redistibuted to the rest of the world <<
Why not be the first to fight to keep your firearms? Pray that another 10,000 or 10 million will join in with your example of patriotism.
You have a responsibility to target the ‘leadership’ from which the orders come and the infrastructure that support them.
What would Michael Collins do?
>>This is SERIOUS “food for thought”. One day, THE choice may have to be made.<<
This is a decision that you should already have made. Don’t be scrambling for answers when the time comes. Meditate and pray that you make the proper decision.
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