Gun Control

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Gun Control advocates are one of the greatest threats to the Freedom of American Citizens. Throughout history every major genocide has been preceded by gun registration and confiscation. In the end a firearm is a tool, just like a hammer, a simple piece of property. A free person is able to own property, while a slave is property. By criminalizing possession of property it makes you a slave, instead of a free person.

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Contents 1 The 2nd Amendment 2 TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > § 311. Militia: composition and classes 3 What Dictators/Mass Murderers had to say about Gun Control 4 What the Founding Fathers Understood The 2nd Amendment to Mean 5 The Courts and the Law

The 2nd Amendment

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.

TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > § 311. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are—

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

What Dictators/Mass Murderers had to say about Gun Control

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall."

- Adolf Hitler

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

- Aristotle, Politics Ch 10 para 4.

"1935 will go down in History! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead to the future!"

- Adolf Hitler

"If the opposition (citizen) disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."

- Josef Stalin

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

- Mao Tse-tung

"Only the police and Military should be allowed to have guns."

- Stalin Rock (Canadian Justice Minister)

"Gun registration is not enough"

-Attorney Generral Janet Reno--12-10-93--Associated Press

"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal"

-Attorney Generral Janet Reno

What the Founding Fathers Understood The 2nd Amendment to Mean

Our Fouding Fathers knew that all governments grow tyrannical with time. That is why we have a Bill of Rights. These are not rights granted by the government, rather these are the rights of all people, that supercede any government or law.

As it is stated here it is recognized that National Armys are required on occasion, and that the people should always remain armed to protect themselves from these armies, as under martial law.

"As the military forces which must occasionally be raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article (of amendment) in their right to keep and bear their private arms."''

- Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789

As Jefferson puts it:

"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

- Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

Can the intent of the Second Amendment be any clearer?

More quotes:

"Congress shall never disarm any citizen, unless such as are or have been in Actual Rebellion."

- 1 Debates on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution 326 (J. Elliot ed., 1836)

"The right declared [in the Second Amendment] was meant to be a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and as a necessary and efficient means of regaining rights when temporarily overturned by usurpation."

- Thomas Cooley, Principles of Constitutional Law 270 (1880)

“The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.”

- James Burgh

The Constitution preserves "the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. . . (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

- James Madison, of Virginia, The Federalist, No. 46

"The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."

- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power."

- Noah Webster, of Pennsylvania, An Examination of The Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, Philadelphia, 1787

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams

"[A] string of amendments were presented to the lower House; these altogether respected personal liberty."

- William Grayson, of Virginia, Letter to Patrick Henry, June 12, 1789, referring to the introduction of what became the Bill of Rights

"the fifth and last auxiliary right of the subject . . . is that of having arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law . . . is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression."

- 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 143-144 (1765)

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) asserts that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms."

- Andrew Ford

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and citizens' firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that, to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 and 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil influence. They deserve a place of honor with all that's good. When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour."

- George Washington's address to the second session of the First U.S. Congress.

The Courts and the Law

"[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased . . . full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

- US Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857).

“ . . .the Georgia Supreme Court considered the right to bear arms so fundamental that, despite the absence of a guaranteed right to bear arms in Georgia's constitution, the court extended the Second Amendment to the state. The court used the following reasoning to void a statute forbidding the sale, keeping, or having about the person a pistol, "save such pistols as are known and used as horseman's pistols":

- Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, Moved on the 8th Instant in the House of Representatives, Fed. Gazette