Posted on 10/21/2009 7:20:14 PM PDT by neverdem
This is the argument most people change their minds on in my experience.
If the minutemen didn't bring their own guns they wouldn't have had any, right? And many brought their own firearms to the Civil War.
Great post.
But we have state-run armed forces and state-run police now. Sure private ownership of guns is no longer necessary...?
That is the argument you will have to counter-argue time and time again. The answer lies in this:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
...i bang mi nee...
That’s about all I got in Vietnamese...
“I called for a roll call vote. The proposal to restrict ownership of private weapons went down in flames.”
Even after all of that, they still don’t understand the issue...
Any elected official who does not understand the basics of this issue, and infringes upon our moral, individual, unalienable right to keep and bear arms should be fired...
Plain and simple...
Of course that may decimate many of those types of folks across the wide spectrum of Federal, State and local government bodies...But I believe we, “the people”, will survive...
Parente was probably the best Rat in the Mass Legislature, too bad the moonbats took her out in the primary election a few years ago.
every person ... shall receive ... two dollars for the use of his firelock, bayonet and cartouche
Not only were the commoners expected to have their own arms to bring into service, they were PAID for use thereof.
thanks GeronL and neverdem.
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