Comments on: Insights on Brady Concession

By: B Smith

B Smith — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:09:00 +0000

Keep mentioning, too, that the Second Amendment wasn’t created to protect the sport of hunting, nor the threat from some armed robber invading your home. Those scenarios are merely two side benefits of the right covered by 2A.
It was created to give citizens the means to resist oppression by our own government or that of foreign invaders. This is borne out in several essays and statements by our founding fathers, and others who witnessed and studied their achievements. The threat of government oppression has not exactly ceased to exist in these modern times.
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

By: Controlling the language of the debate « Firearms & Freedom

Controlling the language of the debate « Firearms & Freedom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:18:36 +0000

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By: BobG

BobG — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:46:00 +0000

I think they’ll just find ways to go around the back way; things like ammo and “reasonable” licensing and such. I don’t trust them at all, and refuse to turn my back on them; they have no shame, no honor, and no respect for the truth.
Just my opinion.

By: jones

jones — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:18:41 +0000

They will creep along until they can get repeal of the 2A.

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SayUncle » Fundraising Suicide — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:50:35 +0000

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