WWWWWWWWWWWWW, on 22 May 2013 - 06:35 PM, said:
Speaking of Google and apropos of nothing, Icecase88 what is your opinion on gun rights?
I am glad you asked. Gun rights are fundamental right provided to everyone by our Creator. Not just guns, of course, but any weapon is a fundamental/natural right to carry for any person. Governments do not determine rights they are supposed to protect them. If you look on NationMaster.com and check the per capita murder rates the US isn't even in the top 37 while many countries with extremely restrictive gun laws, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, etc, are all well within the top 37 murder rates in the world. The US is not even in top 50 for rapes per capita. The US is only tied for 16th place in total robbery victims and that isn't even per capita. The stats are from 2006 but not much has really changed in seven years. The US is ranked 3rd in total serious assaults but that is not a per capita ranking which would place the US lower down on the list. The places with the highest gun ownership are the places with the lowest crime in the US. The facts are indisputable. An armed and educated citizenry keeps the government honest which is why such leaders as Mao, Stalin, ******, etc. have all disarmed their citizens. Ghandi even supported gun ownership. Here are some insightful quotes to remember (especially those in restrictive gun law countries):
•James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers: “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
•Thomas Jefferson wrote in a proposal for the Virginia Constitution: “No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
•Again, James Madison wrote in support of the Second Amendment: “The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country. …”
•George Mason said: “… to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
•Noah Webster wrote: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
•Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “… but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights. …”
•Samuel Adams said: “The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
•Richard Henry Lee, the initiator of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the Senate that passed the Bill of Rights, wrote: “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them.”
•Again, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
•Again, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter quoted frequently by leftists of the 1960s and 1970s: “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.”
•Patrick Henry said: “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 inevitably ruined.”
I noticed my previous post was deleted... did someone QQ about it?