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Piers Morgan looks like a fool debating the 2nd Amendment on Twitter.
Twitter ^ | 12/4/2012

Posted on 12/04/2012 12:53:24 AM PST by South40


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To: South40

The first amendment was written when the press used hand operated vertical printing presses, not twitter or 4-color high speed web presses or television or radio.


41 posted on 12/04/2012 5:39:08 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: South40

Piers is an idiot who is a second rate hack.


42 posted on 12/04/2012 5:49:54 AM PST by bmwcyle (Women reelected Obama)
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To: South40

Freedom of the press was from a time of hand billets and not meant for radio or TV.


43 posted on 12/04/2012 5:52:46 AM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: outofsalt

Hey Piers, my ancestors killed your ancestors at Bunker Hill.


44 posted on 12/04/2012 5:55:56 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: democratsaremyenemy

Book mark


45 posted on 12/04/2012 6:02:08 AM PST by The SISU kid (I think they taste like Barbie dolls smell.)
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To: democratsaremyenemy; All

The last quote by Jefferson is part of a series of drafts for the Virginia Constitution:

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (Quotation)

This sentence comes from Thomas Jefferson’s three drafts of the Virginia Constitution. The text does vary slightly in each draft:

First Draft: “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”[1]

Second Draft: “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements].”[2]

Third Draft: “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]”[3]

This sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution as adopted.

Note: This sentence is often seen paired with the following: “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” That sentence does not appear in the Virginia Constitution drafts or text as adopted, nor in any other Jefferson writings that we know of.

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/no-freeman-shall-be-debarred-use-arms-quotation


46 posted on 12/04/2012 6:06:45 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

“Piers is not an American citizen. “.

Who the hell is Piers Morgan. Never heardof him (sarc)


47 posted on 12/04/2012 6:21:27 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: South40

“Piers Morgan looks like a fool debating the 2nd Amendment on Twitter.”

Isn’t hard for a fool to look like one.


48 posted on 12/04/2012 6:43:49 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Spktyr
Good point. Piers might want to look up how a few hundred Kentucky rifleman at the Battle of New Orleans held off a vastly superior British force marching against them.

It wasn't so much that the Kentucky rifleman were great shots (although they were) as it was the greater range of weapons they were using.

49 posted on 12/04/2012 6:51:03 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Gene Eric

I guess Piers would be ok with the proposition that the First Amendment did not envision radio, TV, internet or, interestingly, Twitter, and therefore does not protect their free use.


50 posted on 12/04/2012 6:57:36 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: South40

Bravo Carol Roth!


51 posted on 12/04/2012 7:15:27 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Vigilanteman

There was also the utter decimation of the British officer corps at Saratoga by other riflemen, and even earlier.

The British learned to hate American rifles early:

‘The Loyalist Bradford brothers, Philadelphia printers, wrote the following story which appeared in the London Chronicle on August 17, 1775: “This province has raised 1,000 riflemen, the worst of whom will put a ball into a man’s head at a distance of 150 or 200 yards, therefore advise your officers who shall hereafter come out to America to settle their affairs in England before their departure”.’

‘These marksmen were organized into small, independent units and ordered to pick off British officers during the inactivity around Boston after the Bunker Hill fight. Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet said on August 14, 1775: “The express, who was sent by the Congress, is returned here from the Eastward, and says he left the Camp last Saturday; that the riflemen picked off ten men in one day, three of whom were Field-officers, that were reconnoitering ; one of them was killed at a distance of 250 yards, when only half his head was seen.” Such reports caused great indignation when republished in London. The backwoodsmen were called “. .. shirt-tail men, with their cursed twisted (rifled) guns, the most fatal widow- and-orphan-makers in the world”. ‘

From: http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/longrifle.html


52 posted on 12/04/2012 7:55:17 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: South40; Slings and Arrows

Love this one by Ben Shapiro:

If Jovan Belcher had killed Brian Terry or Ambassador Chris Stevens, the media wouldn’t want to talk about it anymore.

3 Dec 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite


53 posted on 12/04/2012 8:18:31 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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To: Spktyr
There were 40 years between 1775 and 1815. You would have thought they would have learned something about America's homemade rifles during that time.

Funny thing was that most of these rifles were made in small town and rural outbuildings with less sophisticated equipment than today's average garage.

54 posted on 12/04/2012 10:12:18 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Arrowhead1952

*grim_smile*


55 posted on 12/04/2012 10:57:05 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Thanks for the link. This GEM is there also:


If Jovan Belcher had killed Brian Terry or Ambassador Chris Stevens, the media wouldn’t want to talk about it anymore.-

Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 03, 2012


56 posted on 12/04/2012 11:07:37 AM PST by Peet (Everything has an end -- only the sausage has two.)
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To: Peet

De nada.


57 posted on 12/04/2012 11:52:26 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Vigilanteman

They had their Ferguson rifles they brought in during the Revolutionary War as a counter to the American weapons. They were, in fact, military-grade weapons to the American ‘sporter’ version: they were heavier, threw a heavier round, and far sturdier and easy to repair. All of which was laudable, and they thought that they had the superior rifle.

The problem was that while their rifle didn’t break as much and was more rugged, it required a base of skill they basically didn’t have in England (for a long time after 1815, too) and the more delicate American rifles generally outranged it by quite a large margin. Which some would argue is rather the whole point of rifles... especially ones that were employed in this role.


58 posted on 12/04/2012 2:47:47 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Not to mention that the American long rifle was fairly easily replaced when it did break (due to its relatively simplicity of design) whereas the Ferguson generally required the repair expertise of a craftsman in a large city if not in England itself.


59 posted on 12/04/2012 3:13:08 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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