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Topic: Why the 2nd Amendment |
Why the 2nd Amendment
Townhall, by Walter E. Williams
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Posted By:lcl4, 1/2/2013 1:55:47 PM
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| Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ... We don´t need all these guns to kill people." Lewis´ vision, shared by many, represents a gross ignorance of why the framers of the Constitution gave us the Second Amendment. How about a few quotes from the period and you decide whether our Founding Fathers harbored a fear of foreign tyrants. Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed," adding later, "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
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Comments:
Very well done without ´hand wringing´.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Msctex1, 1/2/2013 2:11:37 PM (No. 9095012)
It´s really not so hard to understand. The people who would institute endlessly invasive and increasingly powerful Government are well aware of what stands most between what they want and what they are currently capable. The Second Amendment is designed to protect us from our own Government. Anyone who plays the "British Are Coming" card is either laughably ignorant or deliberately lying.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/2/2013 2:23:38 PM (No. 9095027)
Cowboy Up !
Are you ready to risk your lives, your fortunes and your sacred honor ???
That IS the price of liberty.
Can´t pay the price ?
Then quit your foolish whining.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/2/2013 2:27:27 PM (No. 9095030)
No moron but if YOU communists keep getting more power by buying votes with OUR money we will need our guns to save America!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 1/2/2013 2:38:42 PM (No. 9095044)
Such a stooge. No brains, no glory. No clue. The guns...OUR guns are to keep critters like you in line. It´s no wonder you wish to see them gone. Fat chance sly one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
phillyred, 1/2/2013 2:40:53 PM (No. 9095052)
It is not just to protect life and property from government. It is to protect from mobs and rioters. In the aftermath of the LA riots it is clear which store owners were armed and unarmed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 1/2/2013 2:46:16 PM (No. 9095062)
Who can still be surprised at the gross ignorance of the people elected to represent us? Dr. Williams certainly isn´t. I thank him for the great list of quotations by the people who wanted better for us than they´d had.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/2/2013 2:46:42 PM (No. 9095063)
Many of us were appalled at bubba sending in the army tanks at WACO.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rubberneck, 1/2/2013 3:20:01 PM (No. 9095112)
If I thought we could spare a tragedy like Sandy Hook from occurring by my turning in my firearms, I´d do it in a heartbeat.
Convince me, liberals! Until then, I´ll continue to believe that an armed society is a polite society, and that I have a God-given right to protect myself and my family, should the need arise.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
No Representation in CA, 1/2/2013 3:34:16 PM (No. 9095129)
In addition to being sexy and handsome, Prof. Williams has presented the most succinct and coherent argument in favor of the 2nd Amendment I have ever read.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimJr, 1/2/2013 4:22:45 PM (No. 9095247)
We need to remind our representatives and neighbors that the Newtown killer first killed to obtain the legally purchased and registered firearms. Nothing in Mrs F´nswinstein´s bill would have prevented Newtown of Columbine or ...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JimJr, 1/2/2013 4:23:56 PM (No. 9095250)
or - not- of
Missed that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
woodsman, 1/2/2013 8:52:15 PM (No. 9095615)
We should have run Williams
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/3/2013 12:02:34 AM (No. 9095801)
"The British are not coming. ...
Where did we get Piers Morgan from ?
Guns assure you do not invade my personal space.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Doctor P, 1/3/2013 8:42:06 AM (No. 9096126)
Another "civil rights" leader has lost his way. He might want to repeal the 14th Amendment along the way. After all it was passed to let the freemen have such rights as to KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.
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