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The Right to
Keep & Bear Arms
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
* Gun Owner Not Welcome on Obama's White House Team?
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* Obama win spurs U.S. gun sales boom
Gun owners fear tough new laws; one shop criticized for 'Obama sale'
* Guns flying off the shelves with election in balance
* Guns 'flying off the shelves' at local stores
 | Case
Vermillion hands a gun to a customer at the Cheaper Than Dirt gun shop
in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The store recorded a
record day of gun sales the day after the election of President-elect
Barack Obama and is having trouble keeping up with the demand for
assault riffles. 5:23 p.m. ET, 11/6/08 |
| Lm Otero / AP |
Obama's Election Sparks Gun Sales
"While shoppers are cutting back on almost everything, sales of one item are suddenly soaring -- guns. Buyers across the country are snapping up firearms at a record pace..." Click here to read much more.
Gun Sales Thriving In Uncertain Times
"Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there's one consumer item that's still enjoying healthy sales: guns. Purchases of firearms and ammunition have risen 8 to 10 percent this year, according to state and federal data..."
Click here to read more.More Guns Less Crime
Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
John R. Lott, Jr.
John R. Lott, Jr.
"A law abiding citizen with a concealed gun can ruin a criminal's day. The more concealed guns in a community, the more a criminal is apt to go elsewhere, or seek another line of work...." Click here for more.
"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people"
-- Jeff Snyder
The NRA's political picks for MI
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Sheriff begins taking away concealed weapons permits
Montanans insist on gun rights
Sundown at Coffin Rock by Raymond K. Paden
and the sequel:
Sunrise at Coffin Rock by Raymond K. Paden
"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."
-- James Madison, The Federalist Papers
Obama Wants NRA Ads Banned
You know why there's a Second Amendment?
In case the government fails to follow the first one.
-- Rush Limbaugh,
in a moment of unaccustomed profundity 17 Aug 1993
***NRA Goes on Offense Over
"The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings."
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dictator of Japan, August 1588
Fake Pro-Gun Group Endorses Fake Pro-Gun Candidate
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."
-- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840
Sportsmen should find Barack Obama's
stand on gun control to be reprehensible.
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
-- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960
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Obama; No Gun Shops Within Five Miles of Schools;
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Isn't Self-Defense Common Sense?
Barack Obama's Second Amendment is all about hunting and target shooting.
"As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion to your walks."
-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to his teenaged nephew.
Obama's Other Anti-Gun Running Mate
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The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
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Obama's Gun Control Positions by Wikipedia
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Much more on Obama and Guns here!
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave."
-- "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract of 1774-1775
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Barak Obama's Gun Control Positions
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
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Obama's lies about supporting gun rights
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"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
-- Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson's Commonplace book
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Obama Says D.C. Gun Ban Constitutional!
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John Lott's take on DC Gun Ban:
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A match, a knife, a stone, a stick;
A car, a rope, a spike, a brick,
With these, crimes happen every day;
But only guns we take away.
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao;
All confiscated guns somehow.
Thus suppressed, their people fled
Or joined 100 million dead.
ANON
It has become known that the murder rate in the old Soviet Union was 4 times that of the US, despite or because of the stiff gun control laws in the old Soviet Union.
Of course the high murder rates in Washington, D.C. have won that city the opposite of fame.
When someone begins to advocate Gun Control, you have to ask, do they emulate Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, or Mao?
Or do they just want gun control for you, their slave, set to labor on their Plantation, while they have plenty of guns in the Big House, just to keep you safe, no doubt.
Are you a member of
Gun Owners of America
and
The National Rifle Association?
Maybe you should be!
"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."
-- Edward Abbey, "Abbey's Road", 1979
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Forum threads on Gun Rights
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Supreme Court to hear gun case
"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 9, 1788
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