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The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting... it is all about defending your other Constitutional Rights and ensuring the citizens can over come Tyranny.
“The Systematic Disarmament of America”
By Wolf_Spyder
Domestic Genocide
I would like to quote Robert F. Melson, Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, he said; "Since the Second World War many more people have been killed as victims of domestic massacres and partial or total genocides than by international war. State-perpetrated massacres are a greater danger to the world community than war itself." (Melson, 1992) I would like to add, that for each of those horrible domestic massacres in our world’s history, government enacted “Gun Control” laws made it possible for the government to disarm and enslave their citizens. Once the citizens were disarmed their own government murdered them by the hundreds, thousands, and even by the millions. The systematic disarmament of America is a slow, methodical, long term game plan by a small group within our own Government to enslave and control the entire American population.
To help illustrate this bold claim lets look at the American history of gun control and how it relates to the genocide in Germany during the 1930’s and 1940’s. The systematic disarming of free Americans started in 1934 with the Federal Government limiting personal possession of short barreled rifles and shotguns. This Law also limits personal possession of Military caliber fully-automatic weapons. The original intent of this law was to limit street gangs and the Mob from adapting powerful weapons to be small enough to hide. In my opinion this is the greatest injustice done to the American citizen. Way back in the mid 1700’s Colonial Law mandated that every male person between the ages of 16 and 60 possess in his home a military grade firearm with the ammunition needed to protect a free state, and more importantly to defend against tyranny. To go even farther, the colonial laws in several states obligated white male persons to carry a firearm with them on a daily basis, even to places of worship on the Sabbath (Cramer, 1995 b). Their reason, it was for the general well being of the community. As you can see this was the whole intent of our forefathers when they constructed the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights (Bill of Rights, 1791).
“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.”
To understand it better, let us look at each part. The phrase, “A well regulated militia,” meant every able bodied male between the ages of 16 to 60. The phrase, “being necessary to the security of a free state,” meant that in order to have a free state, you must first have armed, able-bodied, men ready to defend that state. Continuing on, the last part of the amendment, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,” tells us that the right of the People, meaning an individual, shall not be infringed. So the Government, in one fell swoop in 1934, destroyed our ability to fight tyranny as our forefathers intended in the Bill of Rights. How can we stand up to a modern Army with out equally modern arms? Imagine our forefathers attempting to fight the British Army with nothing more than bows and arrows. A Declaration of Independence, no matter how noble, is nothing without the means to enforce it, or defend it. Our Constitution is nothing more than a really old piece of parchment without the threat of arms to wage war on its behalf. It is this realization that draws our attention to the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Without an armed population, in a free state, the security of our Constitution and the other amendments in the Bill of Rights would be defenseless against a Government run amuck. To that end, our Government has 20,000 state and federal laws infringing our rights to keep and bear arms.
June 30th 1938 saw the passage of The Federal Firearms Act which gave the Federal Government the power to license firearms manufacturers and firearms dealers. Among other things, it also limited civilian transportation of firearms. As we saw above, the government moved to limit our ability to own certain firearms, then the government passed a law to limit who can build and manufacture firearms. If you can’t buy a firearm without government permission, and you can’t build or manufacture your own firearm, then you are dependent on the government to supply you with a firearm. This is exactly how things work today, if you want to own a new firearm you have to ask the government for permission to purchase a firearm. This form is called the Form 4473, and it is required along with your picture identification, your Social Security Number, and a federally-mandated background check, before you may purchase any new firearm.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 repealed the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 but went even further to restrict the legal use of firearms. However, there is some evidence that the entire body of the 1968 Gun Control Act is an almost direct copy, taken section by section from the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 (Redman, 1994). It was the passage of the Nazi Weapons Law of ’38, in Germany, that set the stage for World War II, and is responsible for the enslaving and murder of over 20 million men, women, and children.
Before we can draw a connection between Nazi Germany’s slaughter of over 20 million men, women, and children and our Government’s methodical move toward total population control, we need to understand the basic time line that led to those murders. In Germany, the Firearms and Ammunition Law of 1928 was enacted by a freely elected German government that wanted to curb violent street-gang fights between Nazi party thugs and Communist party thugs. All firearm owners and their firearms had to be registered with the government (Redman, 1994). This means that the government then had a list of every person who owned a firearm, how many guns they owned, and where that person lived. In 1933 the Nazi party took control of the Federal Government in Germany by the use of a political stunt. Once in power, they used the 1928 Firearms Registration lists to go door to door and seize personally-owned firearms from people deemed unworthy by the Nazi government. Then in 1938 the Nazi controlled Government passed the Nazi Weapons Law that further restricted firearms ownership. This new law severely limited possession of handguns, and general firearms ownership to Nazi party members only. It also restricted Jews from owning any form of weapon, be it a firearm, club, or even a knife (Redman, 1994). Once the population was disarmed they stopped being free people of a democracy, and instead became slaves of the Nazi Empire.
To accomplish all of this Hitler needed to gain control of the German Government. Hitler needed better than a 50 percent majority to secure his position as Chancellor, and he needed a two-thirds majority to activate the “Enabling Act.” The Enabling Act would give Hitler four years of total control over the entire country. In 1933 he blamed the Reichstag (the Parliament Building) fire on the Communist party, to swing the balance of political power in favor of the Nazi party (Wikipedia, 2006). This gave him the control he needed to secure his position as Chancellor, and to advance the Nazi party’s goals.
The truly scary part is the ease at which Hitler activated the Enabling Act, giving him total control of the German Government. We here in the United States have a very similar law called the Emergency Powers Act, or simply “Emergency Powers.” This law gives a State Governor total control of his or her State for a period of time. The President of the United States also has the power to activate the Emergency Powers on a national level. The Government body that activates the Emergency Powers is granted the power seize property, suspend rights, and basically reign like a king. Although not totally free from Congressional or Judicial oversight, this power is very dangerous if misused. The Emergency Powers Act, in its current form, is filled with ambiguity and legal loop-holes that can be misused to trample civil rights.
To draw a comparison between Hitler’s Germany of 1933 and our United States when the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 became the Gun Control Act of 1968; let us look at the local current events that took place that year. Thomas J. Dodd (Democrat-CT) Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman held hearing on several gun control bills including S.B. 3637 “To Provide for the Establishment of a National Firearms Registry” (Redman, 1994). We find out that Dodd had been a senior member of the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945-46, and that he had a copy of the Nazi Weapons Law in his possession in 1968 (Redman, 1994). Seeing as Senator Dodd had a rare copy of the Nazi Weapons law and that he was pushing for gun control in the Senate, and that the two laws are so very similar from one section to another, we can conclude Dodd used his copy of the Nazi Weapons law in forming the Gun Control Act of 1968. Also Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were both savagely murdered in 1968 just a few months before the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. I conclude that Dodd used the murders to gain support in Congress for the passage of the Bill into Law, just as Hitler used the Reichstag fire to gain control of Germany to pass his Gun Control Laws.
In the end, both the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 and our own Gun Control Act of 1968 went a long way to drastically limit the ownership, transportation, and use of firearms by civilians. The Second Amendment to the Constitution was meant to give us an equal footing against the standing Armies of the Federal Government. It was meant to protect our Freedoms from a runaway Government. Just like the Democratic Society that once was Germany; we have lost our ability to stand against our Government. We have lost control of our Government. And sadly we could be a simple two-thirds vote away from the conformation of the activation of the Emergency Powers to be misused in a horrible way against the citizens of this Country.
In 1972 the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms was created to enforce Federal firearms laws. Over their short history they are even more fraught with corruption and abuse than both the FBI and the CIA.
By Wolf_Spyder
Domestic Genocide
I would like to quote Robert F. Melson, Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, he said; "Since the Second World War many more people have been killed as victims of domestic massacres and partial or total genocides than by international war. State-perpetrated massacres are a greater danger to the world community than war itself." (Melson, 1992) I would like to add, that for each of those horrible domestic massacres in our world’s history, government enacted “Gun Control” laws made it possible for the government to disarm and enslave their citizens. Once the citizens were disarmed their own government murdered them by the hundreds, thousands, and even by the millions. The systematic disarmament of America is a slow, methodical, long term game plan by a small group within our own Government to enslave and control the entire American population.
To help illustrate this bold claim lets look at the American history of gun control and how it relates to the genocide in Germany during the 1930’s and 1940’s. The systematic disarming of free Americans started in 1934 with the Federal Government limiting personal possession of short barreled rifles and shotguns. This Law also limits personal possession of Military caliber fully-automatic weapons. The original intent of this law was to limit street gangs and the Mob from adapting powerful weapons to be small enough to hide. In my opinion this is the greatest injustice done to the American citizen. Way back in the mid 1700’s Colonial Law mandated that every male person between the ages of 16 and 60 possess in his home a military grade firearm with the ammunition needed to protect a free state, and more importantly to defend against tyranny. To go even farther, the colonial laws in several states obligated white male persons to carry a firearm with them on a daily basis, even to places of worship on the Sabbath (Cramer, 1995 b). Their reason, it was for the general well being of the community. As you can see this was the whole intent of our forefathers when they constructed the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights (Bill of Rights, 1791).
“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.”
To understand it better, let us look at each part. The phrase, “A well regulated militia,” meant every able bodied male between the ages of 16 to 60. The phrase, “being necessary to the security of a free state,” meant that in order to have a free state, you must first have armed, able-bodied, men ready to defend that state. Continuing on, the last part of the amendment, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,” tells us that the right of the People, meaning an individual, shall not be infringed. So the Government, in one fell swoop in 1934, destroyed our ability to fight tyranny as our forefathers intended in the Bill of Rights. How can we stand up to a modern Army with out equally modern arms? Imagine our forefathers attempting to fight the British Army with nothing more than bows and arrows. A Declaration of Independence, no matter how noble, is nothing without the means to enforce it, or defend it. Our Constitution is nothing more than a really old piece of parchment without the threat of arms to wage war on its behalf. It is this realization that draws our attention to the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Without an armed population, in a free state, the security of our Constitution and the other amendments in the Bill of Rights would be defenseless against a Government run amuck. To that end, our Government has 20,000 state and federal laws infringing our rights to keep and bear arms.
June 30th 1938 saw the passage of The Federal Firearms Act which gave the Federal Government the power to license firearms manufacturers and firearms dealers. Among other things, it also limited civilian transportation of firearms. As we saw above, the government moved to limit our ability to own certain firearms, then the government passed a law to limit who can build and manufacture firearms. If you can’t buy a firearm without government permission, and you can’t build or manufacture your own firearm, then you are dependent on the government to supply you with a firearm. This is exactly how things work today, if you want to own a new firearm you have to ask the government for permission to purchase a firearm. This form is called the Form 4473, and it is required along with your picture identification, your Social Security Number, and a federally-mandated background check, before you may purchase any new firearm.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 repealed the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 but went even further to restrict the legal use of firearms. However, there is some evidence that the entire body of the 1968 Gun Control Act is an almost direct copy, taken section by section from the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 (Redman, 1994). It was the passage of the Nazi Weapons Law of ’38, in Germany, that set the stage for World War II, and is responsible for the enslaving and murder of over 20 million men, women, and children.
Before we can draw a connection between Nazi Germany’s slaughter of over 20 million men, women, and children and our Government’s methodical move toward total population control, we need to understand the basic time line that led to those murders. In Germany, the Firearms and Ammunition Law of 1928 was enacted by a freely elected German government that wanted to curb violent street-gang fights between Nazi party thugs and Communist party thugs. All firearm owners and their firearms had to be registered with the government (Redman, 1994). This means that the government then had a list of every person who owned a firearm, how many guns they owned, and where that person lived. In 1933 the Nazi party took control of the Federal Government in Germany by the use of a political stunt. Once in power, they used the 1928 Firearms Registration lists to go door to door and seize personally-owned firearms from people deemed unworthy by the Nazi government. Then in 1938 the Nazi controlled Government passed the Nazi Weapons Law that further restricted firearms ownership. This new law severely limited possession of handguns, and general firearms ownership to Nazi party members only. It also restricted Jews from owning any form of weapon, be it a firearm, club, or even a knife (Redman, 1994). Once the population was disarmed they stopped being free people of a democracy, and instead became slaves of the Nazi Empire.
To accomplish all of this Hitler needed to gain control of the German Government. Hitler needed better than a 50 percent majority to secure his position as Chancellor, and he needed a two-thirds majority to activate the “Enabling Act.” The Enabling Act would give Hitler four years of total control over the entire country. In 1933 he blamed the Reichstag (the Parliament Building) fire on the Communist party, to swing the balance of political power in favor of the Nazi party (Wikipedia, 2006). This gave him the control he needed to secure his position as Chancellor, and to advance the Nazi party’s goals.
The truly scary part is the ease at which Hitler activated the Enabling Act, giving him total control of the German Government. We here in the United States have a very similar law called the Emergency Powers Act, or simply “Emergency Powers.” This law gives a State Governor total control of his or her State for a period of time. The President of the United States also has the power to activate the Emergency Powers on a national level. The Government body that activates the Emergency Powers is granted the power seize property, suspend rights, and basically reign like a king. Although not totally free from Congressional or Judicial oversight, this power is very dangerous if misused. The Emergency Powers Act, in its current form, is filled with ambiguity and legal loop-holes that can be misused to trample civil rights.
To draw a comparison between Hitler’s Germany of 1933 and our United States when the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 became the Gun Control Act of 1968; let us look at the local current events that took place that year. Thomas J. Dodd (Democrat-CT) Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman held hearing on several gun control bills including S.B. 3637 “To Provide for the Establishment of a National Firearms Registry” (Redman, 1994). We find out that Dodd had been a senior member of the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945-46, and that he had a copy of the Nazi Weapons Law in his possession in 1968 (Redman, 1994). Seeing as Senator Dodd had a rare copy of the Nazi Weapons law and that he was pushing for gun control in the Senate, and that the two laws are so very similar from one section to another, we can conclude Dodd used his copy of the Nazi Weapons law in forming the Gun Control Act of 1968. Also Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were both savagely murdered in 1968 just a few months before the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. I conclude that Dodd used the murders to gain support in Congress for the passage of the Bill into Law, just as Hitler used the Reichstag fire to gain control of Germany to pass his Gun Control Laws.
In the end, both the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 and our own Gun Control Act of 1968 went a long way to drastically limit the ownership, transportation, and use of firearms by civilians. The Second Amendment to the Constitution was meant to give us an equal footing against the standing Armies of the Federal Government. It was meant to protect our Freedoms from a runaway Government. Just like the Democratic Society that once was Germany; we have lost our ability to stand against our Government. We have lost control of our Government. And sadly we could be a simple two-thirds vote away from the conformation of the activation of the Emergency Powers to be misused in a horrible way against the citizens of this Country.
In 1972 the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms was created to enforce Federal firearms laws. Over their short history they are even more fraught with corruption and abuse than both the FBI and the CIA.
They are credited with misleading, and in some cases outright lying to, government oversight committees with regard to the massacre in Waco, Texas of a fringe religious group.
In 1977, the District of Columbia enacts an anti-handgun law which also requires registration of all rifles and shotguns within the District of Columbia.
In 1989 California bans the possession of semiautomatic rifles following the massacre of five children on a Stockton, CA school playground. I feel the need to explain the differences between fully-automatic firearms and semi-automatic firearms for the purpose of understanding the outrageousness of this unconstitutional ban. For the purpose of this essay, a fully-automatic firearm is an M-60 or M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) used by the U.S. Army.
These types of weapons are often belt fed and can discharge over 700 rounds a minute. This type of firearm can continuously sustain the rate of fire for as long as the user holds down the trigger, and of course for as long as ammunition is fed into the feed port. These types of weapons are controlled under the Gun Control Act of 1968. The California Gun Ban of 1989, bans semi-automatic hunting rifles like the Ruger Mini 14 pictured here.
The semi-automatic rifle requires the user to depress the trigger each time he or she wishes to discharge the firearm. For each depress of the trigger the weapon will only fire one round. These hunting rifles are far different than the military type fully-automatic assault weapons. It is these small incremental steps of first banning the big heavy unpopular fully automatic weapon and then later, slowly over time, banning the semiautomatic hunting rifles one type at a time, like so many little nails slowly closing the lid on our collective coffin.
The Clinton Crime Control Act of 1994 bans manufacturing and importing semiautomatic “assault” weapons in the U.S. This is what some would call an oxymoron. I say this because there is no such thing. You can either have a semiautomatic rifle or you can have a fully automatic “assault” weapon, but they cannot be both at the same time. This law also created "Gun-free school zones" which carry specific penalties for violations. This did little more than create “victim zones” for law abiding citizens whereby a criminal is assured to be the only person with a firearm. This is exactly why the rash of school shootings has been on the rise, and also why they are always so bloody. I equate this to a carnival shooting gallery, because the criminal blasts away at defenseless victims, who have been disarmed by their own government.
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 bans all sale, manufacture, importation, or possession of a number of specific types of semiautomatic “assault” weapons. This ban has since been allowed to “sunset,” meaning the political party in power, at the time it was passed, was voted out of office. The Democratic Party pushed this bill through and as a result, public outrage was exercised in the voting booth. The democrats lost both houses of Congress and by the largest margins in history. For the first time since then, some 12 years, the Democrats are finally in power once again. They are already talking about trying to pass a nationwide firearm ban. I think they might be the closest thing we have in today’s age to equate to a Nazi Party. One could argue that both parties are going in the same direction as far as limiting civil rights, it is just that one will get there faster than the other.
Sometimes I think of the American population as if we were all frogs sitting in a pot slowly being brought to a boil. Because the heat is being applied so slowly over such a long period of time we just sit there, too stupid or too lazy to hop out of the water. Sometimes I feel like the only voice crying out from the edge of the wilderness, “JUMP! You’ll be burned alive if you do not JUMP!” We, as American citizens, are slowly being disarmed by our own government, just like the Jews before World War II. We are being made unarmed slaves by a runaway government. Long ago, almost a hundred years, “We the People” told the Government what it was allowed to do… now that same government has stripped away our civil rights, and it tells us what we can and cannot do. Is it too late? Are we already cooked frogs in a boiling pot?
“Criminals prefer unarmed victims.” (Author unknown).
The Clinton Crime Control Act of 1994 bans manufacturing and importing semiautomatic “assault” weapons in the U.S. This is what some would call an oxymoron. I say this because there is no such thing. You can either have a semiautomatic rifle or you can have a fully automatic “assault” weapon, but they cannot be both at the same time. This law also created "Gun-free school zones" which carry specific penalties for violations. This did little more than create “victim zones” for law abiding citizens whereby a criminal is assured to be the only person with a firearm. This is exactly why the rash of school shootings has been on the rise, and also why they are always so bloody. I equate this to a carnival shooting gallery, because the criminal blasts away at defenseless victims, who have been disarmed by their own government.
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 bans all sale, manufacture, importation, or possession of a number of specific types of semiautomatic “assault” weapons. This ban has since been allowed to “sunset,” meaning the political party in power, at the time it was passed, was voted out of office. The Democratic Party pushed this bill through and as a result, public outrage was exercised in the voting booth. The democrats lost both houses of Congress and by the largest margins in history. For the first time since then, some 12 years, the Democrats are finally in power once again. They are already talking about trying to pass a nationwide firearm ban. I think they might be the closest thing we have in today’s age to equate to a Nazi Party. One could argue that both parties are going in the same direction as far as limiting civil rights, it is just that one will get there faster than the other.
Sometimes I think of the American population as if we were all frogs sitting in a pot slowly being brought to a boil. Because the heat is being applied so slowly over such a long period of time we just sit there, too stupid or too lazy to hop out of the water. Sometimes I feel like the only voice crying out from the edge of the wilderness, “JUMP! You’ll be burned alive if you do not JUMP!” We, as American citizens, are slowly being disarmed by our own government, just like the Jews before World War II. We are being made unarmed slaves by a runaway government. Long ago, almost a hundred years, “We the People” told the Government what it was allowed to do… now that same government has stripped away our civil rights, and it tells us what we can and cannot do. Is it too late? Are we already cooked frogs in a boiling pot?
“Criminals prefer unarmed victims.” (Author unknown).
Our Government / ATF at work in Texas. "Come out with your hands up, or else..."
More References/Other Reading:
Cahn, H. (1997). Interview with Holocaust Survivor, H.L. Cahn. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
http://www.jpfo.org/Shoot.htm
CBS (Jan. 9th, 2005). Big Rifle A Terrorist Tool?.
Retrieved November 23rd 2006, from CBS NEWS – 60 MINUTES online
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/60minutes/main665257.shtml
Cramer, C. (1995 a). The Racist Roots of Gun Control. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Constitution Society.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/cramer/racist_roots.htm
Cramer, C. (1995 b). The Racist Roots of Gun Control. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Clayton Cramer’s own web page.
http://www.claytoncramer.com/primary.html#RaceGunControlStatutes
Haas, T. (1997). Interview with Holocaust Survivor, Theodore Haas. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
http://www.jpfo.org/Survive.htm
Pye, J. (November 5th 2005). Gun Control or Slavery. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Jason Pye web blog.
http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/2005/11/gun_control_or_slavery.html
Vieira, E. (June 6, 2005). The Constitutional Militia, Slavery, & Contemporary "Gun Control". Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from News with Views online
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin15.htm
1770: "An act for the better security of the inhabitants by obliging the male white persons to carry fire arms to places of public worship." From Allen D. Candler, comp., The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Atlanta, Ga.: Chas. P. Byrd, 1910), 19(part 1):137-140, this law required all white male inhabitants to carry either a long gun or a pair of pistols to church (p. 138), and required "That the church warden or church wardens of each respective parish, and the deacons, elders or select men... to examine all such male persons" to make sure that they were armed. (pp. 138-39)
Cahn, H. (1997). Interview with Holocaust Survivor, H.L. Cahn. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
http://www.jpfo.org/Shoot.htm
CBS (Jan. 9th, 2005). Big Rifle A Terrorist Tool?.
Retrieved November 23rd 2006, from CBS NEWS – 60 MINUTES online
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/60minutes/main665257.shtml
Cramer, C. (1995 a). The Racist Roots of Gun Control. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Constitution Society.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/cramer/racist_roots.htm
Cramer, C. (1995 b). The Racist Roots of Gun Control. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Clayton Cramer’s own web page.
http://www.claytoncramer.com/primary.html#RaceGunControlStatutes
Haas, T. (1997). Interview with Holocaust Survivor, Theodore Haas. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
http://www.jpfo.org/Survive.htm
Pye, J. (November 5th 2005). Gun Control or Slavery. Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from Jason Pye web blog.
http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/2005/11/gun_control_or_slavery.html
Vieira, E. (June 6, 2005). The Constitutional Militia, Slavery, & Contemporary "Gun Control". Retrieved November 3rd 2006, from News with Views online
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin15.htm
1770: "An act for the better security of the inhabitants by obliging the male white persons to carry fire arms to places of public worship." From Allen D. Candler, comp., The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Atlanta, Ga.: Chas. P. Byrd, 1910), 19(part 1):137-140, this law required all white male inhabitants to carry either a long gun or a pair of pistols to church (p. 138), and required "That the church warden or church wardens of each respective parish, and the deacons, elders or select men... to examine all such male persons" to make sure that they were armed. (pp. 138-39)
Goodness gracious this is a long post. Well-written with several good points though. You should mention more about the Heller v. D.C. case and individual v. collective rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. I would have guessed that since all other rights in the Bill of Rights are individual, the Second would be no different. Yet apparently, 11 out of 13 Federal appellate courts have said it is a collective right.
ReplyDeleteI'm in favor of some regulation of gun ownership but I think all-out bans like the one in D.C. push the envelope. People say it is prevent crime. Yeah, right, just like Prohibition cut alcohol consumption and helped us lead a good clean life. Just like Prohibition, banning guns is an overly simplified solution to a complicated problem. Then again, so is repealing all attempts to regulate gun ownership.
There is no need to regulate gun ownership anymore than it already is, law makers need to enforce the laws that are on the books rather than make more. I don't remember the exact numbers but there were a large amount of felons that applied to purchase firearms and were turned away by the background check. Only 1 or 2% were brought up on charges and punished. Now why pass more laws when the ones we currently have don't work.
ReplyDeleteThe assault weapons ban, that one was just retarded. Most gun crimes are committed with dime store hand guns, not assault rifles. So the idiots in Washington ban assault rifles, that makes no sense. These are the morons that want to manage your heath care! Those pin heads are going to bankrupt the country to supply health care for lames that won't work. People in Canada die before getting needed surgeries and they have socialized health care.
Punish the criminals not lawful citizens. Big government means big problems.
By the way, I own 1 assault rifle,1 shotgun, 5 pistols and they have never committed a crime.
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