To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
Patrick Henry, Virginia's US constitution ratification.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense
John Adams
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans posses over almost every other nation
where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Mason
The Constitution shall be never construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
9 posted on
08/09/2005 10:39:40 AM PDT by
Vaquero
(an armed society is a polite society (Heinlein).)
To: Vaquero
The Constitution shall be never construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams
Unfortunately, it has.
28 posted on
08/09/2005 11:40:01 AM PDT by
elbucko
To: Vaquero
I'm with you and the forefathers. Excellent post IMHO
38 posted on
08/09/2005 1:35:09 PM PDT by
kerryusama04
(Walkin' the tightrope between the lost and found.)
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