Posted on 02/22/2015 9:03:48 PM PST by upchuck
All one has to do is understand WHY the Second Amendment was added to the Bill of Rights. Simple but very important.
Gun ownership is what a free people do. When the government takes away your firearms, you become their slave in chains. I would never expect the Euro-peons to understand that.
Bad Title!
Why no American will give up their gun!
Why, no. The 10th Amendment says that states cannot do things that the Constitution forbids, such as violate the Second.
Right, which is why Europe has seen dictators come and go. An unarmed citizenry is easy to conquer and subdue.
I’ll never give them up as long as there are those wanting to take them away, AKA, them that needs killin’
I’ve been shooting since I was 14, when my Dad took us kids up to an open field and set up a target while our moms were fixing Thanksgiving dinner. My husband is an Army marksman and my daughter, also Army, was shooting on her college rifle team at a national level.
It’s not the gun, the bullet or the trigger. It’s the individual handling the gun.
If Europeans want to be mown down by Islamic terrorists due to their senseless victim disarmament laws, that’s their choice.
We don’t.
Strict gun control in England, and the rest of Europe has existed since the invention of the gun and of matchlocks and other very primitive arms.
Ownership was limited to the right people just as in “may issue” jurisdictions. That included the wealthy, who could afford them, the ruling class up to and including the royalty, and their arm of enforcement, the military.
Common citizens were generally forbidden gun ownership out of fear of civil unrest or even rebellion.
The Second Amendment was added because many of the colonies would not sign off on the Constitution without it and the rest of the Bill of Rights, which is missing in gun ban countries.
The founders had the fear of an ever encroaching government oppressive to the very citizens who created it.
Thankfully, the founders had excellent foresight.
We don’t.
Let's add the U.S.Liberals and U.S. Progressives to the Europeans.
Children kill more parents with drugs than guns.
Absolutely!
I've got an idea: how about we give the hoplophobes the Northeast and the two coasts, and DC, and the free men and women take the rest.
My family and I will NEVER NEVER NEVER give up my guns. If this state tries to take them, we will stand against them. If it gets bad enough, we will move somewhere else. If that fails, we will kill the tyrants when they come for us and our neighbors.
WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER. NEVER.
Clear enough, Mr. Hankinson of the Fiscal Times?
The fact that British gun death rates are much lower then in the U.S. merely shows that a police state can be effective, and that a nation which no longer believes in God can end up being a far worse place than one that does.
In 1960 pretty much everyone in the U.S. believed and that meant they also believed that taking life unjustly was a mortal sin. Everyone had guns...they just didn’t use them to commit murder.
A free people has to be self policing. We used to do that. Once you lose the religion...well, what’s to stop you?
Bad Title!
Why no American will give up their gun!
BINGO!
“The fact that British gun death rates are much lower then in the U.S. merely shows that a police state can be effective,”
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What police state?
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We won’t give up our cars either, despite the fact that you are 10000 times more likely to die in a car accident than a gun accident.
What are the odds of dying in a hospital? How many die in a hospital every year due to accidents, incompetence, murder, or infections?
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