Piers, just like most people must have never read the 2nd Amendment....
Most of the arguments about the Second Amendment made by both sides revolve around a single assumption - that the Second Amendment grants a citizen the right to bear arms. What both sides fail to understand is that the Second Amendment grants no such right, in fact, the Constitution grants no rights at all!
What the Constitution does do is identify what powers the people grant to the government. This is the whole purpose of the Constitution - to tell the government what it can and cannot do.
That is why Marxists Democrats like Obama hate our Constitution because it is a limitation on Government not a limitation on We The People.....
Read the Second Amendment closely, it doesn’t say the people have a right to bear arms but rather that the
government cannot infringe on that right.
I don’t know about you, but I sure as hell don’t want to live in a country where the only ones with guns is the government.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Thet’s it, that is the whole 2nd Amendment...where does it say that the government gives us any right? It doesn’t, it only says that the government cannot infringe on our rights.
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.
~ Thomas Jefferson
“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it”...
~ Thomas Jefferson
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey
No free man shall ever be deprived the use of arms .
~ Thomas Jefferson
Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government- that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen’s protection against the government. — Ayn Rand
“Most of the quotes on the internet are bogus.”
~~Abraham Lincoln
I support your sentiments, but most of your quotes are internet inventions.
100% correct.
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The last quote by Jefferson is part of a series of drafts for the Virginia Constitution:
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (Quotation)
This sentence comes from Thomas Jefferson’s three drafts of the Virginia Constitution. The text does vary slightly in each draft:
First Draft: “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”[1]
Second Draft: “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements].”[2]
Third Draft: “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]”[3]
This sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution as adopted.
Note: This sentence is often seen paired with the following: “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.” That sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution drafts or text as adopted, nor in any other Jefferson writings that we know of.
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/no-freeman-shall-be-debarred-use-arms-quotation