Posted on 03/01/2018 6:13:17 AM PST by rktman
Every time I watch these beautiful young people, I wince, because in their understandable sadness is the potential for madness -- "madness" being defined as the passionate and stubborn refusal to accept reason. This often happens after tragedy. After watching the government railroad Abraham Lincoln's killer's conspirators -- and even some folks who had nothing to do with the assassination -- the poet Herman Melville wrote: "Beware the People weeping. When they bare the iron hand."
It is nearly impossible to argue rationally with tears and pain, which is why we all need to take a step back from this tragedy before legally addressing its causes.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Yes...Beware!
Ethically you must fight back with whatever you can when faced with an armed terrorist shooting his gun. To die passively is cowardly.
for some reason when I click on the link to the website it defaults to my printer.
Great line by Melville.
“Beware the people weeping, when the bare the iron hand..”
They didn't write the Second Amendment to protect the right to shoot deer; they wrote it to protect the right to self-defense -- whether against bad guys, crazy people or a tyrannical government bent on destroying personal liberty.
It's a tyrannical government that concerns me the most.
“One of my Fox News colleagues asked me on-air the other day: Suppose we confiscated all guns; wouldn’t that keep us safe?”
They assume that as soon as the government confiscates our guns, the same government would be just as successful at keeping illegal guns from being smuggled into the country as they were at keeping illegal whiskey out during prohibition, keeping illegal drugs out, and keeping illegal aliens out.
They’re not really as bright as they are portrayed to be. I call them “fidiots”.
Yes, and in this proposal of the president, he not quite seeing that “tyrannical government”. That was a condition the Founders were very well aware of. They wanted the citizenry to match the weapons of government, in that day. Period.
Lefties and squishes believe AK’s are “weapons of war” that belong only on the battle field. The truth is that the government today has much deadlier tools, relative to the few citizens with AK’s. Think of atmospheric weapons of gas or rays or waves that can paralyze or execute whole peoples.
Under the wrong AG, or wrong president, our nation takes small comfort in easing away from the provisions of the 2nd Amendment that threaten those few AK’s.
People who want the government to have all the guns simply do not learn from history.
Since the Democrats started the Dept. of Education (Jimmy Carter), teaching American History is essentially history. That’s why kids today don’t understand confiscating every ones guns would not make them safer.
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