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Harry Reid: We don’t have the Right to Arm ourselves Against the Government
Daily Caller ^
| 4/17/2013
| Alexis Levinson
Posted on 04/17/2013 10:10:09 AM PDT by politisite
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he will support the Assault Weapon Ban against what he calls conspiracy theorists, black helicopters and false flags:
Ill vote for the ban because saving the lives of police officers, young and old, and innocent civilians, young and old, is more important than preventing imagined tyranny,
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: assaultweaponsban; awb; banglist; democrats; efad; enemywithin; govtabuse; guncontrol; harryreid; liberalfascism; lyingrat; molonlabe; pinkyreid; rights; rkba; secondamendment; styg; toryreid; traitor; treason; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: politisite
Gosh Harry...You’re so caring.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:11:08 AM PDT
by
albie
(s)
To: politisite
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:11:25 AM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
To: politisite
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:11:36 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: politisite
Just keep talking, Harry...
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:12:34 AM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: politisite
Is it really “imagined” tyranny if you’re voting to support it?
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:13:04 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
To: politisite
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:13:13 AM PDT
by
Renegade
To: politisite
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:13:26 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: politisite
Harry, you ignorant jerk, read
Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:13:47 AM PDT
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: politisite
I love it when Harry Reed starts channeling King George.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:13:55 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Leftist, Progressive, Socialist, Communist, fundamentalist Islamic policies, the death of a nation.)
To: politisite
Screw you Reid. The second is to guarantee its citizens the right to arm and overthrow tyrannical government. That is where we are headed with crap heads like you. It was not set in the Constitution to hunt or just for occasional shooting games.
To: politisite
Maybe we have an “imagined tyranny” because there are 300 million guns in the hands of the public.
FYI, Douchy Harry, there IS a right to revolt against a tyrannical government...unless, that is, you want to publicly disavow the Declaration of Independence.
Go ahead, make my day...disavow the Declaration. DO IT! Show everyone the truth of who you are.
Scumbag!
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:15:02 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: politisite
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible”
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn.
“Know Your Lawmakers” Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:15:14 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
To: politisite
Actually, you ghoul freak, that is EXACTLY why the amendment was included right from the start! Typical commie globalist strategy, to state the exact opposite of truth then push it as ‘the truth’.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:16:10 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: politisite
imagined tyranny
Is taxing / fining the young next year if they don’t buy health insurance.
imagined tyranny
Is fondling our daughters, grandmothers and wives if we wish to board a private airplane.
imagined tyranny
is sending ATF agents to states to acquire the CCW lists from the databases that the states maintain.
I could probably go on.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:16:13 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
To: politisite
“preventing imagined tyranny,
Seems like someone trying to remove an amendment from the Bill of Rights is committing an act of tyranny, so, it ain’t “imagined tyranny” anymore.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:17:08 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
To: politisite
Harry TOTALITARIAN POS Reid ALERT!
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:17:15 AM PDT
by
PGalt
"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, A View of the Constitution 125-6 (2nd ed. 1829)
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:17:42 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(My faith and politics cannot be separated)
To: politisite
The wish to arm ourselves against the police who keep our streets safe is not a reason to oppose an assault weapons ban. I believe that as Americans, we have a right to arm ourselves against criminals, but we dont need the ability to arm ourselves against the army or the police. The United States military is not out to get us. Federal law enforcement, local police departments are not out to get us. These conspiracy theories are dangerous and they should be put to rest. Reid needs a lesson in History.
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:17:45 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
To: politisite
Dingy Harry is our enemy.
The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You cannot protect life, without the ability to take life.
While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.
As
EternalVigilance reminded us:
The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.
"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.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,commonly called the first law of nature...In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."
Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.
Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !
Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is
a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that
COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.
It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is
a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.
The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn
from the Swiss and implement their
"gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the
"2nd Amendment Haters" faces.
" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...
Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.
From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."
Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).
By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.
Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)
After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.
When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.
Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidised, but are subiect to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.
Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.
The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.
Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.
There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.
Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."
The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !
Remember:
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they TRY to take it.
Read
Second Amendment: Its Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .
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posted on
04/17/2013 10:18:12 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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