Guns in U.S. are ‘ultimate check against government tyranny’: Cruz

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 4/16/15 | Joel Connelly

[markomalley]

The right to gun ownership in America is not just about hunting, or protecting property and person, but “the ultimate check against government tyranny,” argues a fund appeal from Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

The Cruz fundraising letter echoes arguments made by militia groups, and a far-right demonstration last winter that followed voter passage of an initiative requiring criminal background checks for gun purchasers.

“The Second Amendment to the Constitution isn’t just for protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice,” said Cruz, a former Texas solicitor general.

“It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives and to serve as the ultimate check against government tyranny — for the protection of liberty.”

The argument was immediately challenged — and lampooned — by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., another possible GOP candidate.

“Well, we tried that once in South Carolina. I wouldn’t go down that road again,” Graham told reporters in Washington, D.C.

[markomalley]

"...to disarm the people ― that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

- George Mason

[mylife]

“It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives and to serve as the ultimate check against government tyranny — for the protection of liberty.”

Succinct and to the point.

[DH]

That’s why it’s the Second Amendment. It was so important to our founders to protect the liberties they so desired that it was the second thing written in the Bill of Rights.

They knew that one day the Democrats and Obama would come to take our rights and liberty......and they were right!

[Fresh Wind]

The argument was immediately challenged — and lampooned — by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., another possible GOP candidate.

The only joke I see there is Linda Graham itself.

Cruz spoke words of absolute truth.

[CharlesOConnell]

That could only be true if both concealed carry and open carry became nearly universal. It doesn’t address the issue of a kind of arms race, in which sworn officers would be routinely armed with automatic weapons and even RPGs. And it would only serve to reinforce the trend towards arming government employees who have no reason to be armed - C’mon, armed employees of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, gun-toting WEATHERMEN? What about potential abuse of advanced technologies for detecting gunfire and even public carry? This is not a good trend.

[Yosemitest]

Lindsey "GRAMNESTY" should register as the DemocRAT he IS !


“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
King George III


The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You can not protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution,
is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.

Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...

Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.

From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."

Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).

By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.

Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.
(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)

After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.

When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.

Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition
(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidized, but are subject to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.

Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.

The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.

Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.

There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.

Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember:

The beauty of the Second Amendment is
that it will not be needed
until they TRY to take it.

Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .

[grobdriver]

The argument was immediately challenged — and lampooned — by Sen. Lindsey Graham

What a putz.

Someone should remind Senator Graham what happened at the Bundy ranch.

A small example of the proper use of 2A.

[SoFloFreeper]

http://www.redstate.com/2014/10/22/fact-check-fact-check-dana-loeschs-hot-new-book-hands-gun/

A good post detailing how the left really really hates the truth: our founders wanted the populace to be armed.

[mylife]

Doesn't Lindsay brag about his own Pink AR15?

[fella]

[OttawaFreeper]

I’ve heard rumours he is angling to be Secretary of Defence or some other thing like that in a Hitlery administration. That is probably among the reasons he engages in the sort of Newspeak exemplified by his comments on Cruz.

[cripplecreek]

In the course of my ancestry research I found a letter to a relative complaining about the British order to turn in weapons issued during his service to the crown.

He asked the rhetorical question of how is he to protect his family from indian raids when the nearest British garrison was nearly a day’s march away.

[GOPJ]

We tried it at Lexington too... and it worked out well...

[mylife]

Fantastic find!

[cripplecreek]

There were lots of threats to life and home on the Vermont frontier in the 1770s.

[OttawaFreeper]

Now I guess its just Bernie Sanders. Me too, that is a fascinating treasure for you to discover. I have for the last few years been working at our old family farmstead (abandoned) and discovering old letters, pictures, and books. One prize was a “History of the Reformation” book that belonged to my great-great grandfather (he named and dated it 1850).

[Sooth2222]

Making the comparison to a much smaller country with roughly 1/2 to 1/3 the firearms per capita, I'd say the citizens of Iraq have managed to keep the finest military in the world awfully busy for the last few years.

[Caipirabob]

Quite seriously, this quote will be used 100 years from now by patriots shutting down socialists and their useful idiots.

[Sirius Lee]

The argument was immediately challenged — and lampooned — by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., another possible GOP candidate.

Then why is Linda so hell-bent on arming Syrian rebels? As far as the presidency, Linda should probably keep her day job and save herself a lot of money and hot-bother.

[drunknsage]

Yet there’s no mention of prohibition and how it started gun control. Full autos were legal till the rise of the mafia which was a direct result of prohibition.