Posted on 04/21/2015 4:30:49 AM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Ted Cruz is firing back at The New York Times for calling his support of the Second Amendment “strange” by reminding the paper that he wasn’t the only “ridiculous” one who felt that way about gun rights.
The Texas Republican penned an op-ed for National Review on Sunday, featuring quotes from five gun-loving American patriots, driving home the message that if guns were OK with them, then guns must not be all bad.
Cruz wrote:
“The writer, the lead editor for the Times’ editorial page, continued, ‘I just don’t get the argument on constitutional or historical grounds’.”
“Perhaps this will help. Let’s survey some other ‘silly’ people who have embraced this heretical understanding of our liberties.”
So here we go. Courtesy of Sen. Cruz, five Americans who said they were okay with guns.
“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…”
“But if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights..,”
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
“The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition. The reasonings contained in these papers must have been employed to little purpose indeed, if it could be necessary now to disprove the reality of this danger. That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of men ready to betray both; that the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment; that the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism.
How to extract a festering infected stinky boil ( media, liberals, commies ) with the use of tea ( tea party , truth ).
You take some tea bags and boil them, let them cool a bit, then place the tea bags on the boil for a hour or two and the tea bags will bring the infected boil to a head and extract the infection...
A home remedy... Works like Witch Hazel.
I meant to say, your typical LIBERAL older blonde woman from CNN...sorry for the typo, didn’t mean older blonde conservative women...
Yes of course... We look towards the future..
Just pointing out the “ technical aspects “ of tomorrow and today..
Does plan 9 from outer space have all you can eat buffets and air-conditioning, discounts to Chick Fi la ?
Yes, baboons have a great compensity of accuracy of throwing their feces ( poop, dung ) with impeccable aim.
That is an excellent retort! An you KNOW out of the 1 billion aborted babies around the world since the seventies, there were nation changers there.
My life has been very, very hard. Yet I never regret being born. Just to feel is a miracle.
“Yes we do have some place to run to , come boldy to the throne of grace of God.
WE APPEAL TO HEAVEN
George Washington ordered that that flag be flown on all our ships.”
Already there, FRiend.
I meant no earthly place...
The Cruz Awakening rocks
“bowing your nose”
Or maybe you shoot it with a bow and arrow or tie it to the bow of a ship.
Isn’t the English language fun?
:-)
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Someone said the other day - if you’re gonna debate Cruz on the Constitution, you’d better pack a lunch and wear a hard hat.
It’s when you tip your nose down in deference to someone else -
the opposite of “having your nose in the air”.
roflmao!!!! you guys are merciless on this board. I have become so paranoid I check my posts fifteen or twenty times and I still do it!!!!
Who says we have to leave ?
Cuba is opening up and I am sure they will welcome all the liberals and commies with open arms..
Homos ?
Feminists ?
Who loves you baby ?
Feidel Castro that is..
Homos ?
Feminists ?
Your all welcome in Cuba.... Your new home from America..
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