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Second Amendment Under Fire
Capitol Hill ^ | March 26, 2008 | JB Williams

Posted on 03/26/2008 7:52:32 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican

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To: PlainOleAmerican

Oh, I agree that the 2A doesn’t make a distinction, but look at the lovely anti’s and their latest “interpretation.”

It’s awfully funny when you have to invent interpretations in order to get your way. Plain english is just fine the way it is.

And to quote a team director for Voltswegen in regards to their cancelled Dakar Rally effort...the world’s number one langugage, “broken english”. Perhaps that’s what the gun grabers follow, broken english.


21 posted on 03/26/2008 8:13:09 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51
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To: PlainOleAmerican
"From my cold, dead hands," says it all.

Everything else said by any member of our government is irrelevent. Heller is irrelevent. The Supreme Court of the United States is irrelevent.

I will be a lion, not a sheep. I will not surrender my arms to any authority, under any circumstance.

My rights, as Thomas Jefferson so eloquently put it, are endowed to me by our Creator. What God had granted, no man, no government can take away except by force of arms, a circumstance I am well prepared to face.

It is only when men allow themselves to become the slaves of a government that they lose those inherent, God given rights. The brave never lose their rights, only cowards do so.

I watch Heller for amusement and edification, but I find the ultimate outcome irrelevent to my circumstances. Unless the rest of the Bill of rights is done away with, no one will know whether or not I possess a firearm, unless I am called upon to use it. In that eventuality, I am prepared to face the consequences.

I am an American Citizen. I bow to no man. I bow to no government. Only God rules my life. I may be killed, but I will never be cowed.

Our Forefathers believed this and lived by this code. Can I be any less of a man than they and face them in the afterlife?

Don't tread on me!
22 posted on 03/26/2008 8:17:41 AM PDT by Sudetenland (I (heart) "Big Oil!")
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To: PlainOleAmerican

You see, the problem lays in the way the Constution was written.

It was done is such a way that very person who could READ & UNDERSTAND and ENGLISH would know what the meanings were. We have dumbed down for so long that WE have forgotten what our forefathers have said & meant in that document.
It is more that time to remind those folks up on that hill, who really is in CHARGE! And is it NOT them!


23 posted on 03/26/2008 8:18:48 AM PDT by TMSuchman (American by birth Rebel by choice, MARINE by act of GOD!)
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To: ProfessorGage

The Second Amendment is the enforcement clause for the other 9 amendments.


24 posted on 03/26/2008 8:19:52 AM PDT by atomicweeder
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To: PlainOleAmerican
I agree too, but I am not confident RBG will vote with the other 5 mentioned. Her comments were directed at showing her colleagues the danger in upholding the lower court ruling. She wasn't really suggesting that she would strike down the machine gun ban. She was also in part showing how unworkable Miller is.
25 posted on 03/26/2008 8:23:27 AM PDT by Clump (Your family may not be safe, but at least their library records will be.)
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To: PlainOleAmerican

If they rule against individual rights, then we will just have to all join malitia’s right? That will really make the gun grabbing sissies wet their pants.


26 posted on 03/26/2008 8:23:30 AM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: PlainOleAmerican

“Throughout history, freedom has belonged only to those willing to defend it by force, against enemies of freedom, both foreign and domestic.”

I think the sad fact is that we have lost a lot of our freedom by acquiescence, accepting new limitations passed by our legislature “for our own good”, having been duped into believing overhyped dangers.


27 posted on 03/26/2008 8:27:56 AM PDT by onguard
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To: pnh102
I've wondered that many times myself. Even if (and I'm not saying it does) the 2nd Amendment applies to only the militia US Code makes pretty clear that all able bodied males (and some females) are members of the unorganized militia class.
28 posted on 03/26/2008 8:32:57 AM PDT by Domandred (McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
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To: PlainOleAmerican
The gun grabbing liberals don't deserve freedom or liberty. They are leeches that feed off of the sacrifices of others who aren't afraid to act. Liberals won't rest until they tear down every protective barrier that stands between their necks and the swords of our enemies. They are people who be enslaved or dead if all their crazy fantasies and ideas were suddenly implemented.
29 posted on 03/26/2008 8:33:08 AM PDT by peeps36 (OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
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To: Sudetenland
""From my cold, dead hands," says it all.

Everything else said by any member of our government is irrelevent. Heller is irrelevent. The Supreme Court of the United States is irrelevent.

I will be a lion, not a sheep. I will not surrender my arms to any authority, under any circumstance.

My rights, as Thomas Jefferson so eloquently put it, are endowed to me by our Creator. What God had granted, no man, no government can take away except by force of arms, a circumstance I am well prepared to face.

It is only when men allow themselves to become the slaves of a government that they lose those inherent, God given rights. The brave never lose their rights, only cowards do so.

I watch Heller for amusement and edification, but I find the ultimate outcome irrelevent to my circumstances. Unless the rest of the Bill of rights is done away with, no one will know whether or not I possess a firearm, unless I am called upon to use it. In that eventuality, I am prepared to face the consequences.

I am an American Citizen. I bow to no man. I bow to no government. Only God rules my life. I may be killed, but I will never be cowed.

Our Forefathers believed this and lived by this code. Can I be any less of a man than they and face them in the afterlife?

Don't tread on me!"

Amen. Just as you will stand against potential tyranny as our forefathers did, so will it be that I will stand steadfast at your side as a brother, as a lover of freedom, and, most importantly, as a fellow American. As it is with you, I will live in subjugation to no earthly kingdom.

30 posted on 03/26/2008 8:33:42 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly (Proud member of the largest 'Hate Group' in the USA...The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy")
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To: PlainOleAmerican
After thirty replies I didn't see anyone quote the last and, IMO, most important paragraph of the article

Let the Supreme Court know what you mean and do it soon. We stopped Amnesty for Illegals, so we can stop the anti-American confiscation of arms as well. But we must act and act quickly!

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
One First Street N.E.
Washington, DC. 20543
RE: District of Columbia v. Heller

31 posted on 03/26/2008 8:40:42 AM PDT by Chuckster (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset)
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To: ZULU

By this point their decisions have been made, and they’re just figuring out how to write the verdict & dissent.


32 posted on 03/26/2008 8:42:02 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: fightinbluhen51

“Bear” is indeed at issue, as there is a DC law that forbids even _moving_ it between rooms in your house.


33 posted on 03/26/2008 8:43:20 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: tumblindice

All true and all sad...

Are there enough real patriots left in America?


34 posted on 03/26/2008 8:44:45 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: vpintheak

You’re probably joined up already. Able-bodied male citizen age 17-45? Congress has already declared you part of the US militia.


35 posted on 03/26/2008 8:45:24 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: fightinbluhen51

The only glimmer of hope I see is yesterdays 6-3 SCOTUS decision in favor of Texas, over-ruling Bush and his International Court.

It would be nice to get at least the same 6-3 decision on DC v. Heller...


36 posted on 03/26/2008 8:47:03 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Sudetenland

I’m with ya, but are we still a majority in America?

If we are, where are we and what are we doing to demonstrate that this is the “will of the people?”


37 posted on 03/26/2008 8:48:20 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: TMSuchman

We have only dumbed down to the point of listening to liberal elitists who tell us the written words do not represent the intent, but that unwritten words do.


38 posted on 03/26/2008 8:50:16 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: atomicweeder

It’s the enforcement clause for EVERYTHING in America.


39 posted on 03/26/2008 8:50:52 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: vpintheak

You bet...


40 posted on 03/26/2008 8:51:45 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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