25 DIRECT STATEMENTS FOR UNDERSTANDING FIREARMS OWNERSHIP AND THE 2ND AMENDMENT

Email | January 5, 2004 | Modified by self

[Jeff Head]

1. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights reserved.
2. Personal firearms: The original point and click interface.
3. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
4. A gun in the hand is better than a dispatcher on the phone.
5. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
6. If guns are outlawed, can we use crossbows? ...how about swords, clubs or icepics?
7. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
8. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
9. If you don't know your rights you don't have any.
10. If government cannot trust its citizens with firearms, government cannot be trusted.
11. Those who trade liberty for security end up losing both.
12. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
13. The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore all of the others.
14. Approximately 79,999,977 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
15. Guns only have two enemies: rust and totalitarians.
16. Know guns...know peace, know safety.
17. No guns...no peace, no safety.
18. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
19. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
20. Criminals love gun control -- it makes their jobs safer.
21. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
22. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to disarm them.
23. You only have the rights you are willing to fight and die for.
24. The American Revolution would never have happened if gun control were in place.
25. If the founding fathers of America were alive today, in all likelihood they would have already rebelled against curretn gun control laws.

[archy]

My daughter's teacher to her class..."The founders could not have envisioned AK-47's and automatic gunfire

My daughter to her teacher...They couldn't envision 300 horsepower in your pickup truck either...

Have your daughter ask her teacher if she knows what a Puckle Gun was.

A pre-Gatling revolving design, the Puckle gun was a British flintlock machine gun invented by James Puckle in 1718. It took a nine-round revolving block, was mounted on a tripod and was designed to be portable and especially to prevent an enemy boarding a ship. An unusual feature was that it fired square bullets against Moslem Turks, but conventional round ones for use against fellow Christian opponents. In those days, British law required that patents be submitted in rhyme, which gave a nice human touch to the early technology's advances.

Thomas Jefferson, in particular, was fascinated by the many technological offerings of his century, and his collection included many British patent drawings and models. It's certainly not inconceivable that he or others of the Revolutionary period [amateur artillerist Henry Knox, in particular] could very well have had their hands on a Puckle.

[archy]

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death.

How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic."

-- Ted Nugent

Mr. Nugent nicely echoes a previous sentiment. I would still be surprised to find the lyrics to *Wango Tango* coming from the same derivation, however:

There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

--Marcus Tulius Cicero, 106-53 BC

[djf]

"it is not for honor or glory or wealth that we fight, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life."

Scottish Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

Jeff, wishing you and yours the very best this season.
regards,
djf

[basil]

This is a handy resource to keep around. It's especially good to have at the ready during interviews. Thanks for posting it.

[Djarum]

#24, The American Revolution would never have happened if gun control were in place.

I would say the Revolution happened because of gun control, and was successful because gun control wasn't.

Lexington and Concord were attempts to seize arms.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks my friend for those season greetings and wishes. Here's wishing you the same...the true Peace and Joy of this season now and throughout the year to you and yours as well!

[Jeff Head]

I agree...but if gun control had been successfully implemented by the British and were completely in place...and the citizenry disarmed, the founders would not have had the arms to resist.

Thankfully, they would not let that happen...as soon as the large central government of their day came for their guns...they fought.

[M Kehoe]

A 'good morning' bump.

5.56mm

[Jeff Head]

Thanks...BUMP back.

Did you see THIS THREAD?

[Djarum]

Most people aren't aware of gun control's place in starting the war, though. A short addition to #24 would go a long way in informing them of that history.

[the invisib1e hand]

agree.

[the invisib1e hand]

In those days, British law required that patents be submitted in rhyme, which gave a nice human touch to the early technology's advances.

how cool. technology could use some human touch nowadays, eh? I think you could teach a computer to rap.

[Jeff Head]

Something like...

Only when the central government of their day attempted to institute gun control did the founding fathers take up arms against the British.

[Djarum]

That works.

[ZULU]

Great points for logically defending your position. Unfortuantely most anti-gunners are illogical ignoramuses who fancy themselves modern day Tarzans. The analogy is closer than they realize.

[cmak9]

The Second Amendment is no more about duck hunting than the First Amendment is about playing Scrabble.

A DVD (or video tape) that greatly supports your statement is available at:

www.jpfo.org

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