Posted on 04/08/2013 4:36:03 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Government compels, restrains and takes. Thomas Jefferson understood that when he wrote that our liberties are inalienable and endowed by our Creator, and the only reason we have formed governments is to engage them to protect our liberties. We enacted the Constitution as the supreme law of the land to restrain the government. Yet somewhere along the way, government got the idea that it can more easily protect the freedom of us all from the abuses of a few by curtailing the freedom of us all. I know that sounds ridiculous, but that's where we are today.
The anti-Second Amendment crowd cannot point to a single incident in which curtailing the freedom of law-abiding Americans has stopped criminals or crazies from killing. It is obvious that criminals don't care what the law says because they think they can get away with their violations of it.
When the Second Amendment was written and added to the Constitution, the use of guns in America was common. At the same time, King George III -- whom we had just defeated and who was contemplating another war against us, which he would start in 1812 -- no doubt ardently wished that he had stripped his colonists of their right to self-defense so as to subdue their use of violence to secede from Great Britain. That act of secession, the American Revolution, was largely successful because close to half of the colonists were armed and did not fear the use of weaponry.
If the king and the Parliament had enacted and enforced laws that told them who among the colonists owned guns or that limited the power of the colonists' guns or the amount of ammunition they could possess, our Founding Fathers would have been hanged for treason.
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Toomey is rumored to be in discussions on this. If that is true, I consider him a Traitor and will do everything I can get get him primaried next time around.
If Universal Background Checks were done at the time of the founding of this country, our Founding Father would have been hanged.
I should’a been Red in BlueJersey*, but too late now!
Judge Napolitano is usually right. Another unconstitutional infringement we don’t need!
*Giants fan.
It started with Abe Lincoln rescinding Habeus Corpus during CW I.(AKA The War of Northern Aggression) We may have to resort to CW II to get them back.
Documentation File on the harmful impact of the Counterculture of Communist Obamanation on Freedom of Choice in America.
Portions of this File are also useful for the Impeachment of the legal citizen of Indonesia Barry Soetoro, also known as B. Hussein Obama, a confirmed Communist.
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