Posted on 07/13/2006 12:51:11 AM PDT by neverdem
The public education system has tremendous influence in shaping the views of millions of young Americans. In many cases, the public school system is the only exposure that many children have to the Bill of the Rights. It is imperative, therefore, to ensure that our nation's teachers are enlightening our young people and teaching them correctly about our rights and the meaning behind them. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of educators in the United States appear to promote an anti-gun agenda or, at the very least, prefer not to teach the Second Amendment in its true light. We base this opinion, in part, on the fact that the United States Parent-Teacher Association and the National Education Association are both openly anti-gun organizations. We further base our opinion on the fact that the public education system at large seems aligned with the left-leaning socialist agenda that also dominates the dinosaur media and the Democractic Party. These are organizations and individuals who side with the enemy during wartime, attack Christian expression while simultaneously supporting public, other-than-Christian religious expression, and support the licensing and registration of guns while secretly conniving to confiscate every one of them.
These are the same people who try to deny that the Second Amendment applies to you and me, but applies to the National Guard instead. These are the same people who conjured up the term, "assault rifle" in an effort to ban semi-automatic rifles. They claim that when the Constitution was written, the Founding Fathers never intended it to apply to the types of firearm technology available today.
Any red-blooded, patriotic American who understands the true meaning of the Second Amendment is closer in spirit to our Founding Fathers than the sniveling, whiners who call themselves intellectuals. As such, we know that the right to keep and bear arms applies to the American people and is not restricted to muskets. We can further prove the intent of the Founding Fathers by observing how they lived and by reading many of the supporting articles and letters that outline their philosophy on the symbiotic relationship between an armed populace and a government that serves its people.
It is time to demand that our nation's education system duly recognize our Bill of Rights and teach the Second Amendment according to its true intent. You can start by talking to your child and asking them if they are learning about the Constitution in school. If so, take a look at their textbook and see if the Second Amendment is accurately reported. If there is a problem with the textbook or if the Second Amendment is not being taught at all, you may want to talk to your child's principal. You may also want to team up with other parents who share the same views. Teachers have a responsibility to our children and we have a responsibility to see that our nation's teachers are doing their jobs properly.
Jennifer Freeman is Executive Director and co-founder of Liberty Belles, a grass-roots organization dedicated to restoring and preserving the Second Amendment.
http://www.libertybelles.org
jennifer@libertybelles.org
LOL! Yeah, the "poor natives" in "remote locations" are just liable to shoot them.
Americans gun owners use firearms for protection about 2.5 million times a year according to the NRA-ILA.
Care to try again?
I'm not sure what you are getting at, so here goes...
Americans living in cities are more likely to live in areas with gun control laws not conducive to self-defense. Those of us in the hinterlands generally fare far better legally.
Check, for instance the difference in crime stats between my state (North Dakota) and Washington, D.C.
The population is roughly the same size as that of the District (not the Metro Area, but the District), gun laws are very different, and so are the crime statistics.
Washington, D.C. is a center of culture and government, all we boast aside from agriculture and a few missile silos are cold winters and polite people...and low crime.
We don't have that many trees...(hence, the "tree line" remark).
AFAIK, we qualify as a 'remote location', at least "flyover country" to the bicoastals out there.
We aren't as poor as we were between oil booms, but that is a relatively recent development...
We do have counties roughly as big as Noo Yawk City, (geographic area, not population) with three! deputies patrolling, so guess who takes care of personal defense, should the need arise, and guess who fills out the paperwork.
As I said, the "poor natives" in "remote locations" are liable to shoot them (violent/dangerous miscreants).
Are you trying to pretend the 2.5+ million acts of self-defense occur mostly in rural areas?
Source, please.
WTF????
I suppose you are going to assert thwey occur in New York?
I prefer, "If guns kill people, where are mine hiding the bodies?"
I have never met a teacher that did anything except parrot the liberal line about US v. Miller, and I was indeed shocked when I found out that the Miller decision was not, in fact, a decision. That was many years, and many guns ago.
WTF????
That's what I figured. You're another one of the fact inventors.
Just how many people are going to defend themselves with a handgun, for instance in New York City with the Sullivan Law staring them in the face?
Bernard Goetz comes to mind, when faced with a group of "youths" wielding sharpened screwdrivers, he came out shooting and ended up in jail.
In North Dakota, he'd have been more likely to get a medal.
Colin Fergusson would never have gotten past the second of third round before he got shot here.
I have defended myself in North Dakota, with the local Sherrif's blessings beforehand.
Go here and compare North Dakota with DC violent crime statistics chart, then tell me how well the folks in DC are defending themselves, 'cause it is illegal to even own a handgun there.
Uh huh. So where's that source?
Hmmm. Dija see the link? Otherwise, What source are you looking for?
idk, some judges would probobly issue a warrant for your arrest after talk like that. Then they would confiscate your guns and probobly send you to prision or something.
lol
and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution- Hamilton
This means, that Congress can only Exercise the authority given to it by the Constitution. If it isn't explicitly stated, then they can't do it.
Period. End of story.
Here's a link to the Google search you should have done instead of wasting our time with your anti-gun trolling Roscoe.
The one that had nothing to do with your false and unsupported position? Sure.
As a collective right of the body explicitly recognized by the Founding Fathers and the courts, your inane and unsupported claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
Let's review:
"Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men." --Thomas Jefferson
Good one Roscoe. You agree 100% with Hillary.
No, no and no. Humiliated when your previous inventions are refuted and exposed you invent new ones, as predictably as a dog returning to its vomit.
America will outlive you and your delusions. Deal with it.
You call for me to cite a source, now be specific about what you want a source for. Otherwise, I am done with you.
Is this the statement you want a source for?
Here's your source.
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