Posted on 02/01/2013 9:45:39 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn. "Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.
Fair enough. I was trying to be kind.
The greatest number of murders of citizens--including murders of children--by means of guns was racked up not during the days of the Wild West but during the 70 years between 1917 and 1987. The folks doing the killing were political types eager to take over their nations and fundamentally transform their societies into their vision of paradise on earth. The major players, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, killed the majority of the 260,000,000 slaughtered during those seven decades. And none of them grew up playing violent video games.
Questions:1. How did the political thugs manage to round up all those citizens and march them off to the death camps?As both Washington and Mao said, "Power is in the barrel of a gun." Sure, we can vote. But the 2nd Amendment is the power behind the vote. The ultimate preservation of life and liberty lies not in the promises of an increasingly gargantuan and intrusive government but in the hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of the U.S. citizenry.
Answer: Superior firepower.
2. What could those soon-to-be-murdered citizens have used to prevent their deaths?
Answer: Superior firepower.
3. Why did they not have this means for self-protection against their own governments?
Answer: Because they had been disarmed and kept unarmed by their own governments.
4. What was the object of the first gun control laws in the U.S.?
Answer: To prevent freed slaves from defending their lives and property.
5. What did the Founders explicitly state was the reason for the American citizenry to be armed to the teeth with all the "terrible implements of war"?
Answer: To prevent government from doing to them here what governments had done to the citizenry in Europe.
6. Why is Barry Obama trying so hard to promote gun control as a means to protect people from what historically has been a minor problem (criminal use of firearms) while ignoring what has always been the principal threat to life, liberty, and property--uncontrollable government?
Answer: I guess we'll soon see.
The cpusa endorsed baraq in ‘08 and ‘12.
They didn’t run a candidate.
Didn’t want to run a duplicate.
nuff said.
Hubert expressed my exact opinion. Amazing, coming from a Minnesota Democrat widely regarded as a “leftist.”
Good point... however Ronald Reagan is a very rare exception. Also Reagan was conservative from the very beginning, even as a registered demoRAT. I don't think you can say the same about JFK or HHH. Especially HHH. He was a liberal right from the very start. Same for JFK.
i was going to say “a democrat senator from what country?” but then saw it was from 1960....
I have a relative that was sure Romney was going to put blacks in chains and make slaves out of women (not quite literally, but close).
I pointed out to him that Romney is more liberal than his Democrat icons JFK & HHH, so how could he be so dangerous. I could hear the crickets. He’s never responded.
Well played.
Yes.
I am constantly reminding my Boston Irish Mom that it is NO LONGER Grandpa’s Democrat Party.
I am proud to say she did NOT vote for the Lyin’ King in either election.
The tyranny which seems remote in America, my ass. Even when seeming to make a case for our side leftists can’t help themselves.
Tyranny in America doesn’t appear remote to me at all. It’s a Minnesota Dem who said this, but still a Dem. A pig just crapped on my head. I shook my fist at it as it flew away.
If you study JFK's speeches and policies and it's clear that if he was alive today he'd be a Republican....just like Governor Connolly.
Bill Ayers went from the Ten Most wanted list to the mentor and patron of a President.
I often silence liberals with this comment:
“The JFK Democrats wouldn’t even recognize today’s Democraps. It has become a loose aggregation of greedy liberal special interest and victim groups.”
JFK was strong on defense. He inspired REAL hopes and aspirations to accomplish the impossible — like putting a man on the moon.
Obama is weak on defense and focuses solely on the “downtrodden” — never calling attention to an innovative entrepreneur or businessman or scientist. Never.
Gee, I wonder what senator said this ?
“You should draw a mushroom cloud and put underneath it, ‘Made in America,’ by lazy and illiterate Americans and tested in Japan.”
Senator Ernest Hollings, democrat South Carolina from 1966 to 2005
He did get the lazy and illiterate Americans part right.
But ooooh so politically incorrect.
“Tyranny in America doesn’t appear remote to me at all. It’s a Minnesota Dem who said this, but still a Dem. A pig just crapped on my head. I shook my fist at it as it flew away.”
take a look at the date he said it, it was 50 years ago.
Right you are! Partial transcript of 1985 video interview of KGB defector Yuri Alexander Bezmenov:
"Most of the people who (reeducated) in the sixties, drop-outs or half-baked
intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the Government,
civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with
them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You
cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information,
even if you prove that white is white and black is black you still cannot
change the basic perception and illogical behavior."
"In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete
and irreversible. To get rid society of these people you need another twenty
or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and
commonsense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of
the United States society."
∅bama: Spawn of the 1960's hate-America crowd ™
He’s dead. Any other dims?
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