Posted on 02/19/2018 6:53:53 AM PST by Sopater
LOL! The scary part is some wouldn’t see the humor in that anymore.
It’s like the speed limit analogy. How slow is slow enough to prevent the MOST deaths?
Leaving the freaking car in the garage.
Which, BTW, driverless cars are all about. Taking our GREAT American freedom away. After guns.
Washington Post says America’s love affair with cars is over.
They can pull my COLD DEAD HANDS off of my Dodge Challenger, hollowed out muffler for speed, steering wheel. :)
The Second Amendment is an acknowledgement that life is dangerous, that people are sinners, and that your safety is your responsibility.
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Well said
If we didn’t have the Gun Control Act of 1968 , 911 would have NEVER Happened, half the passengers would have been armed and the hijackers would have been shot!
An awful lot of people HAVE died for the 2nd Amendment, and the Constitution.
The fact is, were it not for the 2nd Amendment, America would have dissolved years ago. It’s the “wall” that protects the people from a tyrannically government.
Those who would-be tyrants cannot figure out how to get around, or over this “wall”. But the shark has been jumped...and by sheer virtue of HAVING the amendment, prevents anyone from taking the right away.
The more “shootings” they can generate, in places like schools, etc., the more chance (they figure) they’ll have to abolish it. In a perfect, Dr. Suess world, that might be true, but the rights, and the guns, are too numerous, and too embedded.
I would be like the final level of “Doom” if the government tried such a foolish endeavor.
“Have Gun, Will Travel”
“That doesn’t mean that private militias should have tanks and missile launchers...”
Why not? In the defense of Charleston Harbor in June, 1776, Col. Moultrie loaned his cannons to the South Carolina militia. He had the cannons stored in his barn. Those cannons defeated and turned back the British warships that tried to invade Sullivan Island.
Stupid liberals don’t know history.
I don’t know many who know how to operate a tank, but I’m sure we could learn. Give us tanks. And mortars. And RPGs.
How can the left expect us to surrender our arms when, in the next breath, they threaten our lives for our beliefs?
I used to be an internal process reengineering guy at a telecomm company I worked at. When we would go around and start looking at a problem, we would ask people what the cause was. Although I did not keep statistics, it was almost always NOT what the employees thought the cause was—but usually something completely different.
We used to have an excercise called the five whys. You would ask “why does this happen?” And when they gave the reason you would ask again. Go back 5 levels. THAT is your root cause.
Try getting ANYONE to sit through that thought exercise. It’s not easy.
TOP line of my home page...
“THE BEAUTY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS THAT IT WILL NOT BE NEEDED UNTIL THEY TRY AND TAKE IT”. Thomas Jefferson
Without guns (2nd amendment) one side or the other would not exist. Whichever side was in power would be able to shred the constitution as they saw fit. The right to free speech would go first. However, you would retain your right to a speedy trial. About 10 seconds is you were lucky.
Even if you were on the side holding power, you might be expendable on a whim. A few people North Korea may serve as an example here...
In short, without the 2nd amendment you might as well use the rest of the documents as toilet paper.
What about this don’t the sheeple understand?
America spoke loud and clear concerning how they feel about the 2nd amendment during the 8 treasonous years of the Hussien regime.
“Is The Second Amendment Worth Dying For?”......
When I joined the U.S. Navy I, like millions before and after me, KNEW what we faced yet we still accepted that potential. I accepted that possibility then and stand by it today!
Here’s the agreement I made for our country. (To save you time looking it up, It goes like this)...
(a) Enlistment Oath.— Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:
“I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
It varies slightly between commissioned officers and enlisted but the agreements are the same.
Is the 2nd Amendment worth dying for?
Without the 2nd, there will be no 1st Amendment..... or any others IMHO. Isn’t that the plan?
Living as a free man is dangerous but not as dangerous as living under a powerful government not restraint by rules, laws or customs.
Leftists always count on the military and police to be their henchmen for disarmament when the time for it finally arrives.
We used to laugh at that thought. Sadly, as our Post-Christian nation ages and those who have good moral consciences retire or die off - they are being replaced by those who are soulless, guiltless, maniacal, and downright evil (you may refer to them as Millennials).
It’s eventually going to happen unfortunately. The pic above the Travis posted says it all.
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