03-15-2006, 04:58 AM
kandrathe,Mar 14 2006, 11:38 PM Wrote:Where to start?
The "right to bear arms" is the way our founding fathers thought about enabling citizens to secure and defend their freedoms. Anti-gun activists would want to confuse the issue by extremes of anecdotal evidence, or trying to link gun rights to hunting. Guns are tools of death, and hand guns are mostly intended to be tools of human death. That right to secure ones own liberty, or the responsibilityof every citizen to defend the Constitution makes some people very uncomfortable.
Patrick Henry proclaimed, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
The Alexis de Toqueville quote on Doc's sig that was commented on earlier expresses a similiar sentiment in essence that trading the mammon of comfort for the virtue of freedom is unacceptable. Better to be naked, hungry, and free than a sated slave.
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Yeah! Hooray for naked hungry gun owners!
And nice choice of words there. The responsibility of every citizen to defend the constitution makes some people very uncomfortable. So very true. I commend you on your choice of words.
It is every man, woman, and child's right and responsibility to be trained in the use of firearms. In the event of anarchy, government breakdown and failure, invasion, or whatever other reason may arise. Flesh eating zombies. Civil war. Transexual nazi body snatchers.
There was a time when the Japanese considered invasion, but decided against it because they knew there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. And people that knew all to well how to deal death. Now, this is not at true as it once was. It presents weakness.
Because of our government's lax control, our citizens have taken matters in to their own hands, and formed millitias to protect our borders from the rampaging and dangerous drunken Molsen drinking Canadians. Er, frightfully sorry, our Southern borders, which are entirely to open. Not just from farm workers looking to make a buck, but rampant drug trade, human mules full of coke and smack, and even more dangerous types like potential terrorists. These men use their constitutionally given right to form a millitia and protect our home. And God bless them. If I lived closer to the borders, I might even consider joining them on some of their patrols. The incoming farm workers aint a big deal to me, but the drug dealing scum I wouldn't mind using for target practice. Especially since most are just let go and shipped back home to Mexico. I am not a fan of catch and release on this particular issue. :angry:
A few cents worth of lead does a hell of a lot more than a few million dollars worth of fences.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."