"During colonial days, Americans held a great distrust
of standing armies and, in order to get the Constitution ratified, the
framers had to include a Bill of Rights provision to protect
state militias from federal encroachment. Thus "of the
people" refers to the right of the people to participate in
organized state militias, free from interference by the
federal government. "
(Emphasis is mine)
Am I the only who noticed this historical fraud? The Constitution was ratified first without the 1st Ten Amendments, and then later amended due to protests that if certain basic human rights weren't protected from the government, a later regime would use that lack of protection as an excuse to crush the people under their boot heels. To me, this categorically sums up HCI, Feinstein, Schumer, etc.'s ignorance of and contempt for the FACTS about American history which do not support their hysterical hand-wringing. What I don't understand is that if they are "anti-violence" why do they perpetrate laws and greater gov't control over everyone. Make no mistake- government interference in how you live, conduct legitimate business, raise your own children, how you think is a far more heinous form of violence than anything perpetrated by any murderer, because it is done in secret, behind closed doors. It is disguised as "social progress".
I believe that if this country (or any country with a similar system of Constitutional Gov't) is to continue in freedom, such people as continue in willful ignorance and derision of the law and history must be excluded from public debate. Anyone who wants to participate in our experiment of self-government must know and understand basic American principles and respect the facts, whatever they may be. If instead you scoff at our system and what the Founders fought so hard to win, then GET OUT OR SHUT UP!!!
ADDENDUM (14:27 CDT): If that man said he would leave his wife if she bought a gun, I would suggest there is some other, more significant factors at work here, and that she would be well-advised to reconsider the nature of their relationship. He obviously doesn't value it very much if he would leave rather than talk about it.
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"Is fhe'arr teicheadh math na droch fhuireach"
-Sarabian Oomodo
If it isn't Scottish, it's CRAP!
A firearm isn't a weapon until it is used as such.
[This message has been edited by Jedi Oomodo (edited August 17, 1999).]