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45nut
02-05-2008, 01:18 AM
Subject: Reasons to own a gun
>
>
> One of the best pieces of literature that I have ever read as to why we
> should always maintain the right to bear arms.
>
>
> 1) "The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil
> interference; they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
> George Washington .
>
> 2) "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is
> that they be properly armed."
> Alexander Hamilton .
>
> 3) "Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in
> awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property."
> Thomas Paine .
>
> 4) "Americans need not fear the federal government because
> they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess
> over the people of almost every other nation."
> James Madison .
>
> 5) "Games played with the ball and others of that nature,
> are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the
> mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of
> your walks."
> Thomas Jefferson .
>
> 6) "The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone
> who is able may have a gun."
> Patrick Henry .
>
> 7) "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only
> those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit
> crimes"
> Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria.
>
> 8) "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual
> way to enslave them."
> George Mason
>
> 9) "The said Constitution be never construed... to prevent
> the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens
> from keeping their own arms."
> Samuel Adams .
>
> 10) "But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more
> guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more
> safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in
> America, but which historically has proved to be always
> possible."
> Hubert Humphrey .
>
> 11) "I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the
> summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of
> Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some
> practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would
> know how to use the gun."
> Eleanore Roosevelt
>
> 12) "By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia', the
> 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to
> keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the
> essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is
> extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny
> which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a
> major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains
> an important declaration of our basic civilian-military
> relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to
> participate in the defense of his country. For that reason,
> I believe the Second Amendment will always be important."
> John F. Kennedy
>
> 13) "Mightn't it be better in those areas of high crime to arm
> the homeowner and the shopkeeper, teach him how to use his
> weapons and put the word out to the underworld that it is no
> longer totally safe to rob and murder? One wonders indeed
> if the rising crime rate isn't due as much as anything to the
> criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no
> longer has any means of protection. No one knows how
> many crimes are committed because the criminal knows he
> has a soft touch. No one knows how many stores have been
> left alone because the criminals knew them to be guarded by a
> man with a gun."
> Ronald Reagan .
>
> I own a gun because:
>
> 14) 1911: Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to
> 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves,
> were rounded up and exterminated.
>
> 15) 1929: Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929
> to 1953, about 40-60 million citizens, unable to defend themselves,
> were rounded up and exterminated or starved to death.
>
> 16) 1935: China established gun control. From 1948 to 1952, 20
> million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were
> rounded up and exterminated.
>
> 17) 1938: Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945,
> 13 million Jews, Catholics and others who were unable to defend
> themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
>
> 18) 1956: Cambodia established gun control. From 1975 to 1977,
> one million 'educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were
> rounded up and exterminated."
>
> 19) 1964: Guatemala established gun control. From 1964 to 1981,
> 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
> up and exterminated.
>
> 20) 1966-1976: China still has gun control. Another 50-100 million
> civilians, unable to defend themselves, were killed in Mao Tse Tung's
> "Cultural Revolution".
>
> 21) 1970: Uganda established gun control. From 1971 to 1979,
> 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up
> and exterminated.
>
> 22) 1990s: Rwanda established gun control. In a span of 100 days
> in April 1994, 800,000 people who were unable to defend themselves
> were massacred to death - most by machetes. How many dead,
> hacked-up bodies do you think were found holding a loaded gun?
> (answer is less than one)
>
> 23) 1992: Los Angeles California, USA. For three days police stood
> by and watched, unable to stop the rioting, arson and destruction of
> whole neighborhoods. Yet many Korean stores were virtually
> untouched - protected by their well-armed storeowners who exercised
> their right to self-defense through their right to keep and bear arms and
> who did for themselves what the police were unwilling or unable to do.
>
> 24) Late 1990s: Great Britain established total gun control. Robberies,
> burglaries and assaults have skyrocketted making London's violent
> crime rate now higher than anywhere in America.
>
> 25) 2005: New Orleans hit by hurricane. Widespread catastrophe, no
> law enforcement across most of the city for weeks. Some citizens
> protected themselves with firearms - until NOLA police began
> forcefully confiscating them "for their own protection", leaving even
> the elderly unable to defend themselves against roving gangs
> of looters.
>
> 26) "Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't
> serve the State."
> Heinrich Himmler
>
> I Own Firearms Because It Is My God-Given Right To Self-Defense:
>
> 27) "If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies,
> there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed."
> Exodus 22:2
>
> 28) "...he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one."
> Luke 22:36
>
> 29) "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his
> goods are in peace."
> Luke 11:21
>
> 30) "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
> created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
> unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
> pursuit of Happiness."
> Declaration of Independance .
>
> I Own Firearms Because I Have Common Sense:
>
> 31) The second amendment is not dependant on the most recent
> crime statistics - nor is my right to own a gun contingent on what
> criminals do.
>
> 32) 2 million times a year, private citizens successfully use
> firearms to defend themselves.
>
> 33) Criminals fear victims holding guns, not victims holding phones.
>
> I Own Firearms Because There Are Those With Power Who, If Given
> The Chance, Would Force Me To Relinquish Them:
>
> 34) "Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel
> safe."
> Sen. Diane Feinstein , D-CA.
>
> 35) "We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative
> strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"
> Rep. (now Senator) Charles Schumer D-NY.
>
> 36) "Senator Ashcroft is so far out of the mainstream that he has
> said that citizens need to be armed in order to protect themselves against
> a tyrannical government. Our government? Tyrannical?"
> Sen. Ted Kennedy D-MA, at John Ashcroft's Senate confirmation
> hearing, 2001.
>
> 37) "The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."
> Sarah Brady .
>
> 38) "Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."
> Sen. Joseph Biden , D-DE.
>
> 39) "I don't believe that everybody in America needs to be able to
> buy a semi-automatic or fully-automatic weapon, built only for the
> purpose of killing people, in order to protect the right of Americans
> to hunt and practice marksmanship and to be secure."
> Bill Clinton.
>
> 40) "I don't care about crime. I just want to get the guns."
> Former Senator Howard Metzenbaum , D-OH during Brady Bill
> debates.
>
> 41) "If someone is so fearful that, they're going to start using their
> weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people
> have these weapons at all!"
> Rep. Henry Waxman , D-NY, 5/2001 MSNBC report on .50BMG rifles.
>
> H. Lynn Parsons M.D., FACS[/QUOTE]

oneokie
02-05-2008, 02:10 AM
# 41

Had not heard that one.

9.3X62AL
02-05-2008, 03:59 AM
There will be a test on this material in early November. I suggest each of us vote for the candidate--in all offices--who scores best on the Constitutional Adherence portion of the examination.

Freightman
02-05-2008, 11:12 AM
This should be posted on every gun forum! better yet on every forum. Send it around the world, send it to your representive both state and national.

VTDW
02-05-2008, 11:36 AM
Great stuff and always a good reminder.:drinks:

THANKS!!!

Dave

mroliver77
02-05-2008, 12:54 PM
There will be a test on this material in early November. I suggest each of us vote for the candidate--in all offices--who scores best on the Constitutional Adherence portion of the examination.

So you want me to vote for someone who got a D- ?:(
J

AZ-Stew
02-05-2008, 01:28 PM
Excellent stuff, but there is one error:

#41: Henry Waxman is from Commiefornia, not New York.

Regards,

Stew