We have a bunch of career politicians in the government that are out of touch with reality. Bill Clinton stated that the United States was founded to give freedom to the individual but we abused it so they have to take it away. Look, you were not elected to chastise us what a holier than thou attitude when you cannot even keep your pants up. Here is something I recently emailed to another gentleman I was in a debate with in regards to my second amendment rights. I am but a simple Army brat from an enlisted family that attended the lowest performing schools the military and states had to offer. It wasn't until later in life that I understood the importance of education, thus most of my counterpoints will be made by others.
Since our current leadership spent 2 years and had to form a special committee in order to figure out a way to save 600,000,000, or .015% from an at the time 4,000,000,000,000 budget, I will not pull any of their remarks. They are obviously the dumber than I am... and that says a lot.
Instead I am going to draw heavily from our founding fathers and the
Federalist Papers which were issued during the time our constitution was first in effect with the intent of clarifying the meaning of various sections within our documents. In addition I am going to draw from major world events and what transpired shortly before the action began.
I will lead off with a statement from one of my favorite founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson "On every question of the construction (of the constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning might be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." (The Complete Jefferson, p.322)
In the 2008 Maryland case removed the requirement for participation in a standing militia but the founding fathers seem to think that is a mistake "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." (Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment [ I Annals of Congress at 750 {August 17, 1789}])
This early statement by Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts rings true is you consider the
US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations†and there is already legislation that sees the
National Guard taken from Governors. You stated above that the National Guard was our militia right? So if the Military AND our Militia are under federal control who might I ask protects us?
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." (Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8)
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" (Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836)
"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
- St. George Tucker
Fall of countries -
History has seen a number of countries fall from grace and become a dictatorship. Marxism sounds great on paper but due to human nature is proven invalid in practice. First we visit
Hitler's Germany who see the Weimar Republic disarm them and Hitler pass more stringent laws in 1938. If you look at Stalin, who actually killed more people than Hitler, you will see his government instituted
Art. 182 of the Penal Code.
Janet Reno stated
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
Chimpanzees & the Frontier-
In your first email you mention Chimpanzees displaying the same aggression as humans. This is great because it goes along with the speakers very point, humans are capable of greater evil and any animal could imagine, even a chimp. There have been a number of daylight rapes of women and children in areas where guns have been taken from the hands of citizens, "
Muslim Gang Rapes a Coptic Christian Girl in Broad Daylight While Chanting..." . A quick search pulls "
brutal March 2004 attack that left the woman in a coma for about five days." and
a 73 year old woman raped in broad daylight in "safe" New York. Would it not have been nice if these people were armed?
Cannons, Jets, and Tanks -
"...the
ancient Carthaginians had consented to “deliver up all their Arms to the Romans†and were decimated by the Romans soon after. "..." The Massachusetts Provincial Congress offered to purchase as many arms and bayonets as could be delivered to the next session of the Congress. Massachusetts also urged American gunsmiths “diligently to apply themselves†to making guns for everyone who did not already have a gun. A few weeks earlier, the Congress had resolved: “That it be strongly recommended, to all the inhabitants of this colony, to be diligently attentive to learning the use of arms . . . .â€
You and I both know that when our founding fathers said "firearms" they meant just that so this was a silly remark. What is not silly though is first understanding that American Revolutionary Troops were initially armed with the same weaponry as the British. Shortly before war began we began using rifles, a comparison of Revolutionary Hunting Rifles compared to British Muskets of war.
Revolutionary rifle - .45 caliber and a range of up to 500 Yards
British smooth bore Brown - .75 caliber and a range of 50-100 Yards
The soon to be BANNED JR Arms 9mm Carbine that converts to a .40 and .45 is a beautiful weapon -
gives you about 230fps more velocity than a hand gun and is useless after 150 Yards.
The NOT BANNED Winchester .308 is a great hunting and sniping rifles -
gives you 2860fps, almost double the carbine, and has a range of 800 Yards with the USMC preaching 1000+ Yards
The ban is not about the weapons, it is not about the kids, it is about the first step.
Michael