Thursday, January 3, 2013

The Federal Government is after your guns! Be certain of it!


 America is in a very dangerous frame of mind right now.  We are all sad about the killings of the 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticutt. We want to find a way to keep tragedies like that from happening.  In the rush to try and stop those senseless acts of violence from reoccurring, we are opening ourselves up to letting politicians who are really only concerned with one thing...securing their power positions in government, by strengthening government's control over our lives and weakening the citizen's powers to force Government into a weaker, less controlling role in our lives. 
The ideal of controlling guns is as old as leaders realizing that if the people they are trying to control do not have weapons at all or weapons that are inferior in quality and quantity as the government has, that they can control the people.  That is how Hitler did it, how Tojo did it, and innumerable other leaders in this world's history.  It is a proven fact throughout history that when the citizens private weapons were confiscated, the governments eventually became despotic and abusive governments. 
There is a misconception among the citizenry that our founders put the Second Amendment to the Constitution in place in order to give the citizens the ability to protect themselves from criminals, foreign enemies, hostile indians, and wild animals.  While these are true statements, that is not the main reason that the Amendment was put in place; and the actual motivation for that Amendment being put in place is exactly what America is facing right now.  Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and many of the other founders had, from their experiences witnessed what happened to an unarmed citizenry in Europe.  They knew that the natural tendency of big government was to gradually and with absolute certainty, was to take away the citizens' freedoms and replace them with more autocratic, authoritarian, and evil forms of government.  Our founders knew that the real reason the citizenry needed to be armed was to protect itself against a government stealing their freedoms and enslaving them under abusive, evil forms of government.  Here is what many of them had to say about the need for the citizens to protect themselves against the Government:

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." 
- Samuel Adams 

”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
~Thomas Jefferson

”Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.”
~Benjamin Franklin


"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrence's and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington First President of the United States

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
Richard Henry Lee American Statesman, 1788

"The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry American Patriot

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States
 

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … "
Thomas Jefferson letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. ME 16:45.


"The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Papers at 184-8

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They 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."
- Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria)
 

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense."
- John Adams

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry

"I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the Federal government as they are already guarded against their State governments, in most instances." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788

"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."Thomas Jefferson

 "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
Thomas Jefferson  Letter to George Washington, 1796

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.  Source: Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.  To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
Thomas Jefferson 1803

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."Thomas Jefferson (attributed without source)

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. 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's advice to his 15 year-old nephew Peter Carr 1785

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... 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.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; “The Works of Thomas Jefferson,” Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5
"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 of Massachusetts -- U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression."
James Madison  (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."
Alexander Hamilton Federalist #28

"A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."
George Washington First Annual Message to Congress  January 8, 1790

"Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia is put in the hands of Congress?" 
Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 3 Elliot Debates 48.

"They tell us that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Three million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."  
Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 1775

Our founders knew that it is the natural evolution of big government to evolve into a Government of tyranny and to try its best to disarm the citizenry, which would remove that ultimate defender of individual freedoms, the armed citizen standing in opposition to tyranny. That is exactly what our present Federal Government is doing.  They have maneuvered themselves into positions of power, and they know that because of their ineptness, the only way they can maintain and grow their power sphere is to take freedoms away from the citizens and place it into their hands. If America is foolish enough to allow this to happen, then we have set ourselves up to eventually be enslaved similar to what has happened throughout Eastern Europe and to every nation where the people have been forced to give up the means by which they can protect themselves and their property from thieves, despots, and oppressive governments.

America is in a very dangerous frame of mind right now.  We are all sad about the killings of the 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticutt. We want to find a way to keep tragedies like that from happening.  In the rush to try and stop those senseless acts of violence from reoccurring, we are opening ourselves up to letting politicians who are really only concerned with one thing...securing their power positions in government, by strengthening government's control over our lives and weakening the citizen's powers to force Government into a weaker, less controlling role in our lives. 
The ideal of controlling guns is as old as leaders realizing that if the people they are trying to control do not have weapons at all or weapons that are inferior in quality and quantity as the government has, that they can control the people.  That is how Hitler did it, how Tojo did it, and innumerable other leaders in this world's history.  It is a proven fact throughout history that when the citizens private weapons were confiscated, the governments eventually became despotic and abusive governments. 
There is a misconception among the citizenry that our founders put the Second Amendment to the Constitution in place in order to give the citizens the ability to protect themselves from criminals, foreign enemies, hostile indians, and wild animals.  While these are true statements, that is not the main reason that the Amendment was put in place; and the actual motivation for that Amendment being put in place is exactly what America is facing right now.  Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and many of the other founders had, from their experiences witnessed what happened to an unarmed citizenry in Europe.  They knew that the natural tendency of big government was to gradually and with absolute certainty, was to take away the citizens' freedoms and replace them with more autocratic, authoritarian, and evil forms of government.  Our founders knew that the real reason the citizenry needed to be armed was to protect itself against a government stealing their freedoms and enslaving them under abusive, evil forms of government.  Here is what many of them had to say about the need for the citizens to protect themselves against the Government:

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." 
- Samuel Adams 

”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
~Thomas Jefferson

”Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.”
~Benjamin Franklin


"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrence's and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington First President of the United States

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
Richard Henry Lee American Statesman, 1788

"The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry American Patriot

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States
 

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … "
Thomas Jefferson letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. ME 16:45.


"The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Papers at 184-8

"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They 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."
- Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria)
 

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense."
- John Adams

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry

"I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the Federal government as they are already guarded against their State governments, in most instances." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788

"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."Thomas Jefferson

 "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
Thomas Jefferson  Letter to George Washington, 1796

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.  Source: Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army.  To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
Thomas Jefferson 1803

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."Thomas Jefferson (attributed without source)

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. 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's advice to his 15 year-old nephew Peter Carr 1785

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... 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.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787; “The Works of Thomas Jefferson,” Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5) Vol. 5
"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 of Massachusetts -- U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
"A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression."
James Madison  (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."
Alexander Hamilton Federalist #28

"A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."
George Washington First Annual Message to Congress  January 8, 1790

"Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia is put in the hands of Congress?" 
Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 3 Elliot Debates 48.

"They tell us that we are weak—unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Three million people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."  
Patrick Henry (1736-1799), 1775

Our founders knew that it is the natural evolution of big government to evolve into a Government of tyranny and to try its best to disarm the citizenry, which would remove that ultimate defender of individual freedoms, the armed citizen standing in opposition to tyranny. That is exactly what our present Federal Government is doing.  They have maneuvered themselves into positions of power, and they know that because of their ineptness, the only way they can maintain and grow their power sphere is to take freedoms away from the citizens and place it into their hands. If America is foolish enough to allow this to happen, then we have set ourselves up to eventually be enslaved similar to what has happened throughout Eastern Europe and to every nation where the people have been forced to give up the means by which they can protect themselves and their property from thieves, despots, and oppressive governments.
Now is the time to stop these Washington despots from taking the power of self-protection away from the citizens. First, they will define the type of gun the individual should own, then after they have done that, they will make owners who have guns with the wrong type of clip, the wrong physical look (assault weapons), or the wrong caliber turn in those weapons, then they will get the individual pistols, hunting rifles, shotguns. If you are foolish enough to believe this is not their ultimate goal, then you are indeed, naive and have your head stuck in the sand to avoid the truth.




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