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The majority falls prey to the delusion — popular in some circles — that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth — born of experience — is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people... A revolt by Nat Turner and a few dozen other armed blacks could be put down without much difficulty; one by four million armed blacks would have meant big trouble. 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.
• Kozinski, Circuit Judge, dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc in Silveira v. Lockyer.

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations;
James Madison speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution 1788-06-06

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zouden said:

d33p said:

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Navy)

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Interestingly, that's the same reason the US didn't invade the Japanese mainland.

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Interesting zouden.


Acid. No worries bro. I'm sure a lot of us nutjobs would be right by your side!

mushroomhunter10 said:

There is already a bill in The House to begin banning "Bad Guns"!

Anybody that is a member of another forum please spread this into those forums too! Tell everybody that you know to write their congressperson IMMEDIATELY to try and quell this bill before it gets under Obama's pen!

Here is the bill.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-45

Some great blogs about what it really intends to do.
http://defmech.blogivists.com/2009/01/19/house-bill-45-the-anti-gun-rights-campaign-begins-in-ernest/
http://defmech.blogivists.com/2009/02/06/hr-45-divide-and-conquer/
http://defmech.blogivists.com/2009/02/03/comments-on-hr-45-revisited/

You all can write your local congresspersons here!
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml


When they start attacking The Second Amendment it's time to start worrying! If you thought Clinton was a gun-grabber then YOU AIN'T SEEN SHIT YET!

Please post this in other forums! Tell family and friends!

Take a wild guess where the congressman who proposed this bill lives.

BINGO!! Illinois! (Where Obama was in office)

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Regarding the newly introduced bill titled: Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009



      This bill blatantly violates the second amendment, which reads in part, "...the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.". I am writing you in order to ask you to do all that is in your power to prevent this bill from being passed by Congress.


The bill reads in part:

      "It shall be unlawful for any person other than a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector to possess a qualifying firearm on or after the applicable date, unless that person has been issued a firearm license."

      Since the United States Constitution states that everything written therein is the "Supreme Law of the Land", and since it also states that "...the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.", this bill is inherently unlawful, and should not be passed.



- [Full name omitted]

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Lakefingers said:

SolomonTheShaman said:

Scary, eh?  What's even MORE frightening is people probably won't notice until it's "too late", whatever that means. 

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it's also been entertaining for me to notice that all the pro-gun people i've known would be the last to fire upon the government in any situation

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That's odd, because most of the "pro-gun" people I've known are already prepared for the government to "take over", and it seems they are very likely to follow through with their preparations if such an event actually occurred.

Lakefingers said:

it's also been entertaining for me to notice that all the pro-gun people i've known would be the last to fire upon the government in any situation

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Lakefingers said:

mushroomhunter10 said:

No. Even a famous Japanese general stated that he would have attacked mainland U.S. but every other house would have been shooting at his army!

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d33p said:

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Navy)

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utter overestimation of the american middle-class

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Lakefingers said:

SolomonTheShaman said:

Scary, eh?  What's even MORE frightening is people probably won't notice until it's "too late", whatever that means. 

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it's also been entertaining for me to notice that all the pro-gun people i've known would be the last to fire upon the government in any situation

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Now, where were all you gun people over the last 8 years while Dubya was totally trashing the Constitution of the United States? Silent of course.

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