Posted on 01/04/2013 11:17:31 AM PST by i88schwartz
Big bttt! :)
I’ve heard the argument made that even with the weapons Americans possess, they could never beat the fire power of the US military. That is true. Our military could kill us all. But killing everyone and breaking everything in your own Nation won’t happen.
Resistence to an unconstituional, billergent, oppressive government won’t be a war won by the US government if it is waged against Americans over freedom. Americans would not tolerate it.
The government should not make the choice of treason against the constitution and American people. They have permitted the Kenyan to go too far in conducting his war on terror against selected Americans whom the Marxists hate. The KGBish spy development is dangerous...for the government.
The more they violate the constitutional rights of Americans, the more frightened of Americans they become. The more frightened they become, they more they violate America’s constitution and the more they are afraid. In the end, I would not want to be the treasonous idiots who made Americans my enemy.
Come on, Gaffer. A two second google search would have pulled up the correct verbiage from the Declaration.
Unfortunately for the sake of this otherwise excellent argument, Hitler never won an election.
You mean Hitler didn’t win with a majority. He did indeed win as do most leaders in a multi-party parliamentary state, with a plurality.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ...
(shh - my cousin many generations removed wrote it :-)
The 2nd amendment’s purpose is self-evident when observed in the context of the 1st and 3rd.
The 2nd Amendment protects the 1st amendment and our right to criticize the government.
And making it even more obvious that We the People were intended to be armed - is the 3rd Amendment:
“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”
Without the 2nd Amendment, the citizen is powerless to deny consent to the would-be occupiers.
So, FU Comrade Feinswine - and stay the hell out of my house.
The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the other nine.
Hitler was never elected to anything.
He finished second in the 1932 German Presidential election, forcing a runoff with Paul von Hindenburg, which he also lost. He was then appointed Chancellor by von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933.
The only election Hitler ever won was his 1934 plebiscite over his assumption of state power, and even then he was not standing personally for election.
****** “Then why can I not have fully automatic firearms and an Abrams tank parked in my garage would make me feel more secure.” ******
If you had the $ you could... there is no law that is absolute, if you have the $ you can break “any” Law.
Welcome to the USSofA
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One benefit of our “cumbersome” American system of government. The two party system, bicameral houses, Electoral College are all blessings to prevent tyranny or tyrants getting power.
That’s why we need to undo the imperial Presidency. It extends well beyong the man, to the entire Executive Branch.
When I was a kid (back in the '50s) one could order a 20mm Lahti cannon through the mail and get it delivered to your house. I forget the price, but I know I ordered a nice military surplus rifle and had it delivered to my front door. It was a lot cheaper than the cannon ($23.50 delivered, complete with a bayonet and lots of hunting ammo). Of course, I was only 14, so I had no use for the cannon. But the rifle I hunted with for years. I even took it to school.
These were in the dangerous and Wild West days before the 1968 Gun Control Act, which was passed in the hysterical wake of the second Kennedy assassination.
The same hysterians are at it again. Some things never change.
“I need a tank”. Lol!! Luv it! I like how u think!
:-)
/poking the AR 15 lovers
Vast majority of Continental troops (90%) would have had Charleville Mle. le 1763/1766s .69 cal. or Brown Bess .75
cal.
A rifle would have been a weapon/prized possession of
frontiersmen, but since it would not hold a bayonet it would
be out of place in a battle formation as existed in standard 18c tactics, and would be exclusively a sharpshooters weapon.
Indeed, the national socialists never had even 40% of the Reichtag. But they made up for it by bullying the senile Hindenburg into giving the chancellorship to old Dolph.
Similarly, the bolsheviks were NEVER in the majority-even though the word translates to “majority”- except during a single crucial vote in the DUM, stacking the deck against Mensheviks. It was Stalin that said in 52 that “why call us bolsheviks... there are no mensheviks (minority party). WE are the party.
This is how they work. And you could only have a firearm in either STATE if you were in the military or secret police, which was all part of the same thing. No jews were allowed firearms, period.
Well said, Colonel.
And, to my surprise and shame, you’ve taught me the difference between “Bolshevik” and “Menshevik”. Thanks for that.
ping
Thanks for the tip. My wife’s cousin hunted bears with a compound bow, and would shoot right throw its head. Man!
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