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Democrat Senator Supports 2nd Amendment as "Safeguard Against Tyranny" (!)
Guns (magazine): "Know Your Lawmakers" ^ | February, 1960 | Hubert Humphrey

Posted on 02/01/2013 9:45:39 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn. "Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.


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KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; guncontrol; huberthumphrey; secondamendment; shallnotbeinfringed; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: Postman

He’s dead. Any other dims?

He probably still votes though, so isn’t his opinion still valid?


41 posted on 02/04/2013 3:00:39 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Beelzebubba

When Wayne La Pierre made the statement in the hearings that the 2A was about protecting the people from government tyranny, it seemed to me that Senators of both Parties got all nervous and jerky. Lindsey Graham made a point to call him out. We have too many in Congress on both sides who see that kind of talk as a threat to their power..


42 posted on 02/04/2013 7:47:52 PM PST by apoliticalone
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To: tumblindice

So, did anyone ask the WH Idiot why they want to do all this stuff if it’s not to stop killing?


43 posted on 02/04/2013 9:27:18 PM PST by Terry Mross (Who long before America is no more?)
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To: kosciusko51
Today’s DNC is more like the 60’s Communist party.

Today's DNC IS the Communist party.

44 posted on 02/09/2013 9:06:30 PM PST by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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