This is worth reading in its entirety. It is difficult to tell by the way this article appeared at its source whether it was written by Thomas Lifson or Michael Geer. I apologise if I credited the wrong author.
In any case, this is a great source for founding father quotes about the need for individual citizens owning guns.
Lamestream media folks are so out of touch. If they were around during the Revolutionary war, they would have supported the British.
...and the heavens trembled as the perpetually pompous preached to the predictably perplexed.
I don’t know why most Americans think the US is “too big to fail”. Look at how our culture and demographics are trending. To me, it’s a sure thing.
Isn’t Brokaw from Canada?
“Brokaw said. “Well that’s the most far-reaching thing you can possibly imagine.””
Really? How about the government allowing a rioting group of “African-Americans” to run amok through a neighborhood for 4 days where there is no gun-ownership because the residents are peace-loving Jews?
It was called Crown Heights, and it was in August, 1991. And what did you do in response, Tom? Did you equate the tragic, but accidental death of a black child with the deliberate murder of a young Jewish man?
I don’t know. But, during the 2003 presidential debates, Tom, you asked al Sharpton if he’d apologize for promoting accusations made by Tawana Brawley, who accused six white New York policemen of raping her. Al didn’t, but you didn’t even bother to ask Sharpton (who had previously demanded an apology from Gov. Howard Dean for his remarks about pickup trucks and the Confederate Flag) to apologize for his actions during the Crown Heights riots in 1991.
Outlandish, Tom? Not as outlandish as you still being employed.
Of course the battles of Lexington and Concord weren’t fought over some cannons and munitions held by the rabble hoard who were defying the King.
“You will march...with the utmost expedition and Secrecy to Concord, where you will seize and destroy all the Artillery, Ammunition, Provisions...Small Arms, and all Military Stores whateverr...” — General Gage’s orders to Lt. Col. Smith, April 18, 1775
http://www.concordma.com/magazine/spring05/cannons.html
Pretty sorry stuff!
For anyone who wants some ammunition on the issue, see Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms.
On the subject of a people who have lost their way, Losing America's Multi-generational Purpose.
For a reminder of the gutless stupidity of the Tom Brokaws throughout the history of fawning: The Emperor's New Clothes.
William Flax
Brokaw should be strung up and gutted for disgracing those who sacrificed so much for our country.
I’m 63 years old and since I was a child I’ve known that the purpose of the second amendment was to hold the government at bay. I was taught this in school. Amazing how far we’ve fallen.
The “Washington quote” is bogus.
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndbog.html
It doesn’t even really sound 18th century, and uses a number of terms that didn’t yet exist when Washington lived.
Which doesn’t mean the sentiment isn’t valid, simply that the implied “appeal to authority” of assigning it to G. Washington is untrue.
What part of the Second Amendment “against all enemies, foreign and domestic” does this pseudo-intellectual idiot not understand?
[[that 2nd Amendment types]]
the left are throwing htis term aroudn now as an insult- if You are patriotic, and love your coutnry, and value hte second mamendment, you are simply old fashioned and out of touch with the ‘new reality’ in theirm inds, and shoudl be called the that 2nd Amendment types as a form of scorn and ridicule-
It woudl be nice if there were enough TRUE right wing news stations i nthis coutnry where everytime oen of hte Anti-Americans opens their piehole, the right immedfiately pounces on it and shows America how unamerican the left really are- but all we really have is the assinien ‘fair and balanced’ (Read- left leaning ‘conservative’) fox channel
You're an assclown, Brokaw. What you've just described as "the most far reaching thing you can possibly imagine" is exactly what was going on at Lexington and Concord when the men who pledgeed their lives and their sacred honor shed blood for your freedom.
Joseph Story, a contemporary of the framers of the Constitution,in his Commentaries on the Constitution considered the right to keep and bear arms as "the palladium of the liberties of the republic," which deterred tyranny and enabled the citizenry at large to overthrow it should it come to pass.
In 1837, the Georgia Supreme Court in Nunn v. State held that the Bill of Rights protected natural rights which were fully as capable of infringement by states as by the federal government, and that the Second Amendment provided "the right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not merely such as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed nor broke in on, in the slightest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying of a well regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free state."...
When the argument is made, as Cuomo did in screaching tones, that hunters don’t need semi-autos, assault weapons and high capacity magazines, the rebuttal should be clear.
This is not about hunting. This is about our right to defend ourselves from government tyranny. Why should we have to limit ourselves to weapons inferior to the government if the purpose it to restrain the government. When muskets were what the army had, citizens had the right to muskets. Technology has advanced and our weapons must keep up in order to maintain our deterrence capability.
Why is Homeland Security stocking up on hollow point ammo? When the government gets rid of AR’s so will the citizenry.
And I used to have a smidgeon of respect for Brokaw which I've now completely lost. He now sounds like a typical, leftist petty-tyrant.