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How A Libertarian Who's Never Owned A Gun Brought The Decisive Case On The Second Amendment

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by gitchmt June 29, 2008 6:02 PM EDT
Of the 30,000 deaths, how many were by illegally obtained guns?
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by x123x123x-2009 June 29, 2008 5:59 PM EDT
Homer Simpson, with the support of his family, plans to give full support to the NRA because of the true life experience that he has went through of not being a victim but a victor for justice when it came to the life of his family in his home.
Read below for Homers true story!
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by cfin5 June 29, 2008 5:59 PM EDT
"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny."

- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
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by indpendant June 29, 2008 5:58 PM EDT
OK now we have that settled, how about "No laws pertaining to religion" and the laws against prayer everywhere?
I''m still waiting for the Right to overthrow the Gov if it doesn''t respone to the people. Vote People. nuff said
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by x123x123x-2009 June 29, 2008 5:58 PM EDT
In Homer Simpsons home one day one of our gangs visited his house with the intentions of you know what against Marge and Bart and Sally. But in Homers Simpsons world he has the right to use his gun for protection in his home so when the gang came crashing through his front door, Homer not knowing what was on their minds pulled the trigger on his glock and walla bernard Geotz was born! Homer after it was all done went and held his family close to him and the family held him as well and wept. They knew that what Homer did was to protect the security of the family. The Simpsons were never the same but none of them were crippled with the disease of helplessness that this gang would of inflicted on them had homer not owned a gun legally and for the protection of his family!

They went on in life to make cartoons for the whole world to enjoy!
A happy ending that would of been tragic if not for the decision of the father to defend his family buy owning a gun legally and using it responsibly!

The names have been changed to protect the people whos lives have been destroyed and maimed so that people who have no compassion or empathy do not adulterate them a second time!
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by ins_tease June 29, 2008 5:56 PM EDT
I''ve had enough of this concept out there that if you own a gun you are giving power to ones fears. I''ll tell you something, I fear a lot less knowing that I can stand my ground and protect myself than wondering if I will survive a conflict I did not invite. As for the attitude that we should all just practice peace and that will make everything okay... You do know that the criminal who breaks into your home aint on the same page, don''t you?
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by cfin5 June 29, 2008 5:54 PM EDT
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." -- Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775

- Thomas Paine
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by terrorislami June 29, 2008 5:54 PM EDT
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." -Patrick Henry

"Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace." -James Madison

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8.

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -George Washington
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by terrorislami June 29, 2008 5:54 PM EDT
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 46.

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all forms of positive government." -Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 28.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776, Jefferson Papers 344

"The constitution of the United States asserts that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press." -Thomas Jefferson
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by cfin5 June 29, 2008 5:52 PM EDT
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Jefferson''s "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

-- Thomas Jefferson
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