Trudeau, yesterday, literally within hours: "lol no I'm not lifting the travel ban on the dirty unvaxxed with their unacceptable opinions, I'm going to keep them imprisoned in Canada thanks, also what do you need guns for lol".
No protests, no guns, high gas prices, food shortages and managing your speech? What could possibly go wrong....."The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
“Shall not be infringed” is very clear. For those who don’t like the rules, there are plenty of options to move to a country where guns are either not legal for citizens to own or gun laws are incredibly restrictive.
"But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well digested plan should as soon as possible be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate size upon such principles as will really fit it for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan it will be possible to have an excellent body of well trained militia ready to take the field whenever the defence of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments; 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 the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army; the best possible security against it, if it should exist.” - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0186
If he believed the people are to be "little if at all inferior to [a standing army] in discipline and the use of arms", it also stands to reason he believed they should have arms little if at all inferior to said army. This was one of our founding fathers' greatest fears - that the government should turn on the people.
Joseph Story, a Supreme Court Justice from 1811 - 1845 (while some of the founders yet lived) in "A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution" wrote of the Second Amendment:
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence (sic) to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia....The militia is the natural defence (sic) of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers.... The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms had justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpations and arbitrary powers of rulers; and it will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
Don't get me started on "Assault Rifle", ... a video game term for anything that has a "dangerous looking shape" or something... and people get fooled by that, argh.
"this is why they choose extreme events like mass shootings in schools (and ignore mass shooting in neighborhoods where most occur)"
48 shootings, 9 dead in JUST Chicago over the long weekend. Where's Joe and Jill? Where's the media outrage? Where's the hand-wringing from idiot NBA coaches and sh*t-for-brains MLB managers?
So help me out here, up until Columbine I can't recall a single "mass shooting" that wasn't perpetrated by a governmental authority or quasi-governmental authority (say Pinkerton agents putting down a strike). Am I right? Or can anyone name one?
Trudeau, yesterday, literally within hours: "lol no I'm not lifting the travel ban on the dirty unvaxxed with their unacceptable opinions, I'm going to keep them imprisoned in Canada thanks, also what do you need guns for lol".
"Guns should be heavily regulated and viewed as a sign of an unhealthy population if they are adopted widely, the potential for harm is too great"
-People who wanted you to lose your job for not accepting a novel leaky vaccine against COVID-19
No protests, no guns, high gas prices, food shortages and managing your speech? What could possibly go wrong....."The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
George Orwell
"Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace." - James Madison
Hahahaha the silencer for librarians!!!
“Shall not be infringed” is very clear. For those who don’t like the rules, there are plenty of options to move to a country where guns are either not legal for citizens to own or gun laws are incredibly restrictive.
It really is that simple.
This:
"no government that possesses the agreement of the governed need fear an armed populace."
No person invited into my home need fear my arms...
I started working in a gun shop at 12 years old (not selling, just cleaning up) then spent most of the next 45 years in the gun industry.
I was never shot, nor did I ever shoot anyone else.
BUT, a drunk driver in a semi ran me over in 1980, crushed my
legs, took me three years to walk again,
I have been in pain, since 1980, and now can no longer work.
So , tell me Ms "Speaker of the House" how dangerous guns are, compared to your husband, (if the cops had not stopped him)
If the me of fifty years ago saw the me of now replying "damn straight" she'd believe in alien transfer of consciousness.
Corrupt government is always desperate to disarm its citizens
I guess the government could lead by example and have all the police and security details give up their guns first.
Justin Trudeau is doing what his daddy Fidel did in Cuba 🤦🏻♂️
Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist #29:
"But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well digested plan should as soon as possible be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate size upon such principles as will really fit it for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan it will be possible to have an excellent body of well trained militia ready to take the field whenever the defence of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments; 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 the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army; the best possible security against it, if it should exist.” - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0186
If he believed the people are to be "little if at all inferior to [a standing army] in discipline and the use of arms", it also stands to reason he believed they should have arms little if at all inferior to said army. This was one of our founding fathers' greatest fears - that the government should turn on the people.
Joseph Story, a Supreme Court Justice from 1811 - 1845 (while some of the founders yet lived) in "A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution" wrote of the Second Amendment:
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence (sic) to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia....The militia is the natural defence (sic) of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers.... The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms had justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpations and arbitrary powers of rulers; and it will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
Don't get me started on "Assault Rifle", ... a video game term for anything that has a "dangerous looking shape" or something... and people get fooled by that, argh.
"this is why they choose extreme events like mass shootings in schools (and ignore mass shooting in neighborhoods where most occur)"
48 shootings, 9 dead in JUST Chicago over the long weekend. Where's Joe and Jill? Where's the media outrage? Where's the hand-wringing from idiot NBA coaches and sh*t-for-brains MLB managers?
Rhetorical questions.
So help me out here, up until Columbine I can't recall a single "mass shooting" that wasn't perpetrated by a governmental authority or quasi-governmental authority (say Pinkerton agents putting down a strike). Am I right? Or can anyone name one?