Stupid to die or go to prison over pieces of metal and plastic and wood

Thanks for the compliment...but this is not my doing. My intent is to bring to the fore, once again, an essay that states simply and elegantly the importance of safeguarding our freedoms. There is only one piece of literature that I know of that equals the message and impact of Mr. Bateman's post:

All too many of the other great tragedies of history—
Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops
against unarmed populations. Many could well have been
avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their
intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets
apiece, as the Militia Act required here.

If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw
Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with
only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles
could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons
of history.

The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines
the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw
the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second
Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those
exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have
failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection
and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the
courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today,
facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make
only once.
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Kozinski, Alex, Justice of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; Silviera v. Lockyer, 1993.
 
Good read indeed. It's a shame most of the populace doesn't realize why the Second Amendment was written. It was never about the National Guard or rabbit hunting. Guns, in the hands of honest men, are what keep citizens from becoming subjects.

Good job Dennis. I'll keep a copy of your essay handy.
 
Powderman,

I wish every high school civics student had to read Justice Kozinski's opinion.

Metal and Wood wouldn't hurt any, either!
 
metal wood and plastic

Dennis, you have just received a standing ovation, one that will stand in many hearts for many years to come. Thankyou, Ed Strehl
 
"Dennis, you have just received a standing ovation, one that will stand in many hearts for many years to come. Thankyou"

+1
 
Mr. James said:
Powderman,

I wish every high school civics student had to read Justice Kozinski's opinion.

Metal and Wood wouldn't hurt any, either!
Click to expand...

I'd like to see that expanded to every elected, appointed, and otherwise-employed official at every level of every government of these United States.
 
Metal and Wood

Dennis,

Thank you so very much for your writing: It truly came from the very depths of your heart and I feel as though I have absorbed it in mine. I, myself took an oath ( twice, not once to defend this country from enemies within and without ) and I still feel that comittment.

I really hope your writing goes viral on the internet. It has been an inspiration for me as I am sure it will be for others, and at a very important time in our country.

Thank you sir, and God bless.

The Thinker
 
I had read a long time ago that the first rule of communism and dictatorship is to disarm the public, taking away their ability to resist. The government has already infringed upon our 2nd amendment right by restricting the type of arms we may own by the AWP. The federal AWB has been removed but some states including New York kept the restrictions on flash hiders and magazine capacity. Now we have the NATO thing that Hillary Clinton is pushing, its just a back door approach to complete gun control.
 
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