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15 Year Old Woman Leaves Maryland Gun Grabbing Politicians Speechless
Freedom Outpost ^ | April 3, 2013 | Tim Brown

Posted on 04/04/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost

In another video provided by The Maryland Minutemen, a fifteen year old young woman addresses the Maryland state legislature and in doing so some of the most hardcore gun control politicians. While some girls are running around attempting to be the next Lady Gaga, Madonna or Beyonce, it’s nice to know there are young women with some priorities in their lives. This young lady gets it, at least where arms are concerned. Take a look as see what you think.

Though I have attempted to discover the name of the young woman that spoke, I have yet to do so. However, she is a very well-spoken young woman and carried herself with poise and ease before the legislature.

She has been shooting for almost eight years. This indicates that her parents began teaching her at an early age. She has been a part of the Maryland Rifle Club and Maryland State Rifle Team since she was eleven. To the horror of the bun grabbers, she declared, “We shoot semi-automatic AR-15s and my personal rifle is a Bushmaster.”

Because of her experience, she has become so proficient that she has become eligible for various shooting scholarships from around the nation “from a wide array of even the most prestigious college shooting teams.”

“Stricter gun control laws would have obliterated any opportunity I would have had could have had to attend a decent college on a shooting scholarship,” she said.

She also declared that ever since she began to learn to shoot, the issue was clear in regards to gun violence, “Guns aren’t the problem; people are.”

In addressing the legislature concerning their gun grabbing legislation, she said, “By signing this legislation, you are not signing away gun violence, but instead liberating American citizens of our constitutional rights. You are not eliminating guns from society, but eliminating our ability to protect our lives, liberty and pursuits of happiness.”

The young woman then went on to point out the dismal record of Barack Obama’s city of Chicago, Illinois, a city with arguably some of the toughest gun laws in the country. “It is twice as likely for you to be killed in Chicago as it is to be killed in the Afghani War,” she stated. She then backed up her bold statement. “For the past eleven year and four months, in the Afghani War, 2,166 people have been killed (obviously referencing American people). Now in only eight years in Chicago 4,265 people have been killed and 3,371 of them were from being shot.”

“Is that really something we want to model our state laws after?” she asked rhetorically.

She went on to drive the point home that of the 3,371 that were killed in Chicago, only 37 of them were killed with a rifle. That’s barely 1%! Since 98% were killed with a handgun, the young lady says that “gun control legislation that targets assault rifles (Yes, I know, it’s semi-automatic rifles and so does she, but she’s rubbing their noses in it) has statistically proven to weed out only less than 1% of the problem if you’re lucky.”

She also pointed out that none of the firearms used in the Chicago shootings were either licensed or registered to the people who used them. This statistic alone should be enough to argue against background checks of any king or any type of registration or permit. After all, you don’t have to have any of those things to exercise any of your other rights, so why is that imposed on the Second Amendment? (Hint for liberals: It’s to control you.)

She then recounted the fact that restricting guns will not stop criminals from hurting people and pointed out that the same day of the Sandy Hook shooting that a knife wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in China.

“Guns are not needed for mass murder and robbing American citizens of our rights to own them won’t solve anything,” she said. “You must also consider the fact that the majority of gun violence occurs in low income neighborhoods. Raising the overall costs of owning a gun through higher licensing and registration fees denies the ability of low income individuals to protect themselves from the crime focused in the areas they live in.”

She then points out that passing legislation such as the Maryland legislature was considering was discrimination against the low income citizens, who are actually at the higher risk of becoming victims of crimes.

Concluding her remarks, she summarized what Maryland’s legislature and its governor were seeking to do.

“To abolish or severely limit the right of the Maryland residents, as a whole, to bear arms, which is the intent of the proposed legislation is to essentially defeat the purpose of our own U.S. Constitution. The entire foundation of the United States was formed on the principle that the government, our government, is a government of the people, for the people and by the people. Taking away the people’s right to bear arms is taking away the people’s power in the government.”

It is the Second Amendment that was put in place to make sure that the government understood that men keeping and bearing arms is not at the granting or the benevolence of government. Government is simply to protect that ability from infringement, even when it is the one seeking to infringe. In fact, I would say that any American is not only acting irresponsibly in not owning a firearm, but they are neglecting their duty to their families and country (their individual state) by not owning a firearm. Bravo to this young lady for speaking the truth and doing so very precisely and poignantly!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment; teens; women
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While some girls are running around attempting to be the next Lady Gaga, Madonna or Beyonce, it’s nice to know there are young women with some priorities in their lives. This young lady gets it, at least where arms are concerned. Take a look as see what you think.
1 posted on 04/04/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

15 year old woman?


2 posted on 04/04/2013 7:53:07 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost; vette6387; Doogle; freekitty; flat; mazda77; justiceseeker93; ...

IMO, talking to these Liberal sewer RATs is like trying to tell Hitler not to invade Poland!


3 posted on 04/04/2013 7:54:58 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

True, because they are in in for power nothing else. But it is good to see that there are some young people who are not bamboozled by their liberal propaganda.


4 posted on 04/04/2013 7:56:29 AM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: sickoflibs

“15 year old woman?” absolutely.


5 posted on 04/04/2013 7:57:39 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: sickoflibs

Exactly. No 15 year old is a woman.


6 posted on 04/04/2013 8:00:28 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

BTTT


7 posted on 04/04/2013 8:03:35 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: verga

Bump


8 posted on 04/04/2013 8:03:42 AM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: sickoflibs

Isn’t it funny when they’re talking about a 15 yo black male gangbanger with a gun he’s a “child”. Yet an intelligent conservative 15 yo white girl is a “woman”?


9 posted on 04/04/2013 8:04:22 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: sickoflibs

My first question as well. No further comment lest I hijack the thread.


10 posted on 04/04/2013 8:07:11 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: sickoflibs

She shows more maturity than at least half those twice her age.


11 posted on 04/04/2013 8:10:01 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: count-your-change; MtBaldy; jmaroneps37; ilovesarah2012; thackney
RE :”Exactly. No 15 year old is a woman”

In fact in Maryland a 15 year old child CANNOT give her legal consent:

Maryland statutory rape laws decree that if you have sex with a person who is 14 or 15 years old, and you are at least four years older than your partner, you can be charged with and convicted of a second-degree sexual offense.
Also, if you are at least 21 years old or older, and you have sexual relations with a person who is between the ages of 14 and 15 years old, the crime is elevated to a third-degree sexual offense.

12 posted on 04/04/2013 8:11:56 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost; All

A 15-yo young lady might be a more exacting description.


13 posted on 04/04/2013 8:13:34 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: ilovesarah2012; count-your-change

The author is obviously trying to get a specific message across by calling her a woman rather than a child or a teen, in the title.

I think teen would have been fine, or even ‘young woman’ is commonly used for teens wouldhave been better.


14 posted on 04/04/2013 8:14:57 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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Here's the link to the video at Youtube.
15 posted on 04/04/2013 8:15:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

Can’t find the video.


16 posted on 04/04/2013 8:16:51 AM PDT by Mercat (I'm loving this Pope)
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To: sickoflibs; jmaroneps37; count-your-change; MtBaldy; ilovesarah2012; thackney

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

In her speech she certainly strikes me as one who has put away childish things. For this I would absolutely consider her a "woman", if only in the intellectual sense. Anyone described accurately as a "gangbanger" has likely not put aside childish things and justly retains the moniker "child". Clearly there is a difference between intellectual age and physical age.


17 posted on 04/04/2013 8:17:05 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost
Bravo to this young lady for speaking the truth and doing so very precisely and poignantly!

Girls sure didn't make speeches like that when I was a high school boy! More power to the young lady!

18 posted on 04/04/2013 8:18:51 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

There is still hope for America’s future, she may be rare, but such as her could start a constitutional movement among the young...here’s hoping.

I know there are many like this girl, but the msm does their best to see they do not get exposure.


19 posted on 04/04/2013 8:20:34 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost
Just goes to show that a child has more sense than the legislature.
20 posted on 04/04/2013 8:20:56 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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