Some interesting "bits" I read today.

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12 years 4 months ago - 12 years 4 months ago #14389 by Sharkey
Some interesting "bits" I read today. was created by Sharkey
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Thomas Jefferson:"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."

George Washington:"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."

Thomas Jefferson: "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.



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History of 'Gun Control' In Other Countries

Germany established gun control in 1938. Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns.

”Right wing fanatics” of the "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people".

Later all private firearms confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military).

Germans who refused to surrender their guns when the Gestapo came calling, were murdered in their homes.

From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and others, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

China established gun control in 1935.
From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Guatemala established gun control in 1964.
From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Uganda established gun control in 1970.
From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves against the Muslim government, were rounded up and exterminated.


I'm thinking we are going to have some tough roads ahead guys. Let us all stay vigilant.
Sharkey 2012
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12 years 4 months ago #14392 by Akai
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

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12 years 4 months ago #14394 by jtallen83
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" Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it." James Madison Federalist Paper No 46

It might be hard to read but it ain't hard to figure out what the second amendment was about, it sure as hell wasn't hunting!
"Thomas Jefferson:"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
I handed out bumper stickers with this and other Jefferson quotes at the county fair this year. I had twice as many of this quote than the others and it was still the first one gone.
make sure to contact all your local politicians and threaten their jobs if they mess with our guns! :usa:

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