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:
“I’ll 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,”
:^)
We have a right to bear arms precisely to keep potentially tyrannical government from occurring.
didn’t the NRA support Harry in his last election?
BINGO
Only 17% of the population of the popular during the 1st Revolution fought against Britain. In today’s world, that would equate to 61,200,000. Since the loyalists today are on welfare, it would be much larger.
Read the 2nd Amendment Reid!!!
Wow. I’m sure glad the NRA stepped in and helped him get re-elected.
As usual, Reid is FOS. Try using this ignorant idea as we fought for Independence. One of England's goals to dominate the Colonies?
Gun Control.
Read this fascinating article....
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....
being a Minnesotan , one of my faves to give the leftists here.
I think they lingered and finally decided not to support him because of the outcry from a number of members; however, they are on record of supporting him in the past.
Oh yes we do Harry.
Actually, that question about the Federalist Papers was a good one.
You just have to marvel at how someone as clueless as Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, et al could ever be elected as a U. S. Senator.
Tell that to the founders ass-hat Harry!
We are closer to CW II than we think.
Those who vote "yea" have a good case.
5.56mm
Reid poses not only a false dichotomy, but both options he presents are false as well. There’s nothing in these bills that will save any lives — if anything, they will result in more innocent deaths due to victims being unable to properly defend themselves or third parties being able to defend potential victims). Likewise, there’s no imagined tyranny out there, as history is replete with example after example, and indeed the founding of our own country is a story of armed citizens overthrowing tyrannical rule.
The more you people talk the more guns and ammo I buy.
Interesting info re the Swiss view.
Dingy, of course, is working the top side of the issue.
Unfortunately, the disarmament of U.S. civilians is well underway at the elementary and high school levels.
Amen Joe!
Be Ever Vigilant!!
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