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Founding Fathers or Liberal Blowhards - Who Ya' Got?

In a follow-up to my previous post, below are several additional quotes from our Founding Fathers on the right to keep and bear arms.  As you read these, think how drastically they conflict with the position of the liberal left in this country:

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." -- James Madison

"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

"To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason

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

Could they be more clear?  Nothing that suggests the right is only for sporting purposes or that additional restrictions should be placed upon it.  And yet, many on the left couldn't disagree with them more.  But what else is new, there seems to be a lot about the Constitution they'd like to change. 

Ironically, Ben Franklin wrote to future generations of American's that "we gave you a republic, if you can keep it."  They obviously thought the right to keep and bear arms was central to that cause or they wouldn't have added language about it in the 2nd Amendment?

I wish gun control proponents cared more about what our Founding Fathers thought and less about their own ill-informed opinion.

Thoughts On The Right To Bear Arms

Many on the American Left want to eliminate your right to bear arms.  Virtually all on the American Right want to protect it.

If you're apathetic about this issue, consider the following:

It's 3:30 in the morning and you and your family are in your home upstairs asleep.  A loud noise suddenly startles you awake and you quickly realize that someone has broken into your home and is running up the stairs.  Adrenaline enters your bloodstream and you immediately jump from bed.  You quickly grab your Glock .40 and take cover on the side of the bed.  The door suddenly bursts open and several shots are fired.  The two armed assailants are both hit in the chest and left totally incapacitated.  You and your family are safe.

Right now you have a choice of what to defend your home with.  Obviously, my choice is blue steal with 165 grain hollow points.  Maybe I'm nuts, but that choice seems to have better stopping power than calling the cop who is finishing off his third cream-filled donut four miles down the road.  The point is that you currently have a choice.  If our friends on the Left have their way, you'll eventually have fewer choices with greatly diminished stopping power.

Logistically, it is very difficult for the police to protect you after an assailant has entered your home.  Once the intruder enters your living space it is really your responsibility to make sure they leave - and in a much different way than they entered.  Specifically, via an ambulance or the meat wagon as in the above example.

Home invasions are more prevalent and the perpetrators increasingly violent.  However, the libs continue to harp on the virtues of a gun-less society.  The question is, who do they think will be gun-less?  Certainly not the criminals.

Consider the divergence of these two quotes:

"The only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes." Sarah Brady - Handgun Control (1993)

"A free people ought to be armed."  George Washington (1791)

They could not have more different meanings.  Sarah Brady, the gun control czar states that there is no place for guns to be used in self-defense.  George Washington, authors that citizens should be armed.  Blathering liberal or Father of the Country - who do you stand behind?

The next time you hear that do-gooder or media pundit babbling on about the necessity of creating a gun-less society remember the Washington quote.  Oh, and consider my previous point:  If guns were banned, who in their right mind actually believes that criminals would hand their guns over to the authorities?  By law they are not allowed to have them now!

Nope, the only people turning guns into the authorities would be the law abiding among us, eliminating the last line of defense between the lawful and the predator.

Let's take this one step further and fast forward three years.  The Democrat President has just finished celebrating the one year anniversary of the "Gun Abolishment Act" with a big high-brow party at the White House.  Earlier that very day, you were forced to turn the last of your firearms over to the authorities.  It's now 3:30 in the morning and you and your family are upstairs asleep.  A loud noise startles you awake and you quickly realize someone has entered your home and is running up the stairs.  Adrenaline enters your bloodstream and you immediately jump from bed.  Since you have no gun, you quickly dial 911.  As you are connected to an operator the bedroom door bursts open.

Multiple shots are fired, but you only here the first.