We, therefore, must never, ever, in the face of certain oppression, give up our arms and place ourselves at the complete mercy of a tyrannical government.
The Second Amendment, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, was, I suspect, one of the most debated amendments to the Constitution. Below are a few of the beliefs expressed by our forefathers. Without a doubt, those in opposition raised the same, or nearly the same, bogus arguments that are raised today by the government.
Those in government and its espousers of falsehoods, mainstream media government controlled sources (including so-called 'scholars'), would have you start thinking the "militia" stated in the Constitution referred only to government armed forces. This is absolutely false and are the utterings of power-crazed madmen who only want to control every facet of your life - to remove all liberty from the American people.
Speaking of government subterfuge, its sneaky actions were summed up 200 years ago by Enmund Burke in 1784 when he stated, "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
The intent of our founding fathers is clearly to provide for the citizenry of this nation to remain armed for all time. Any ideas to the contrary are just your common everyday variety of BS (bullsh*t). The following state what the "militia" is just as plain as can be. Scholars backing the government, along with the government, must presume none of us can read and interpret what we read instead of just 50 percent of the adult population lacking these skills.
(Read these carefully and see if you can determine any other meaning than the militia being the whole of the people.)
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country..."
James Madison
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms..." Richard Henry Lee
"I ask sir, what of the militia? It is the whole people....To disarm people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." And, also, "...To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..."
George Mason
It is clear the founding fathers thought of the militia not as any government army but the whole of the people being armed and ready as to their own defense, be it against other governments or any who would invade their homes and liberties.
As to the primary reason, however, for the Second Amendment, it can be summed up by this belief of Thomas Jefferson: "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 their government."
Jefferson was not alone in his basis for constitutionally preserving the right to keep and bear arms.
Noah Webster, in his "A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" (1787-1788), he put it thusly:
"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 band of regular troops."
And, this by James Madison in "The Federalist 46" (1788): "Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation."
It is a matter of history that tyranny depends on disarming the people. Both the oligarch and the Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms." Sounds as if it could be a quote from one of our founding fathers, doesn't it? But it wasn't. It was stated several centuries ago by one of the greatest philosophers of all time, Aristotle.
And, in recent times by a leading politician (for a change), "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny, which though now appears remote in America, history has proven to be always possible." This was stated by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.
The Federalists, those who favored government control during the time of the battle for the Constitution as it stands today, would not have wanted the right to keep and bear arms. No tyrannical government has ever wanted an armed citizenry and none ever will.
The Demorcratic-Republican Coalition (my name for the A-holes in Washington, D.C., those we now have in the federal government), have the same concept and are striving through falsehoods to convince the majority that it is best to give up firearms. In doing so, they forget to tell the truth.
In Canada, (just an imaginary line away from us) where firearm control has led to free people giving up their arms, crime has increased by (these are close - I had just awakened and never had a pen handy) 60-plus percent, murders by 19 percent, and, 'home invasion' by 21 percent. In another category I never caught but suspect was overall assaults as that would follow the basic trend, there was a 28 percent increase.
And, then there are these figures from Australia compiled by an Australian pro-gun organization called the "Sporting Shooters Association of Australia". PLEASE NOTE: The Australian government is of course denying the figures and relying on their own distorted figures as does the Feds in this country when any program fails or they wish to mislead the public.
At any rate, here are the figures (First year following the confiscation of over 600,000 firearms from free citizens). Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent with homocides up 3.2 percent.
Armed robberies were up 44 percent, with a 300 percent (Yes, 300 percent) increase in homicides with fireams in the state of Victoria.
Although figures may vary slightly, certain results remain consistent. If firearms are removed from the hands of innocent citizens, crime increases. If firearms are advocated, such as in permitting concealed weapons as many states in this nation now allow, crime decreases.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. If guns are removed from innocent citizens, criminals laugh as they know they are unlikely to encounter firearms when committing crimes against the people. And they also know they can get all the firearms they want no matter how many laws glutton the books.
Conversely, if criminals don't know who has firearms but thinks everyone does (as in the old days when home invasions were extremely rare), crime goes down. They are as afraid of getting shot as any other person and would rather prey on those without defense. Hence, attacks on older people and invasions into their homes increased in Canada, Australia, and England.
Think about this. Law enforcement can't control crime now and that is with the hundreds of gun laws that are unconstitutionally on the books at this time. After all, those were also meant to 'control crime'. So, how in the hell do they expect to control it without the help of armed citizens?
The answer to this is - they don't. The goal of the government is to disarm the citizenry in order to become completely tyrannical. The government is already controlling nearly every facet of our lives, including taking earnings through fraud.
As more and more citizens discover the frauds being committed, it is imperative in the government's collective mind that they must have control of all firearms so as to protect their illegal actions. Those in government, although a bunch of dumb-asses as far as I am concerned, are smart enough to know they must remove the "last resort" protection that all free people have ever had - the means of defending themselves against the tyranny of a central government.
Now, you people out there who think you will be protected should we all give up our firearms, forget it. It just ain't so. The only group that will be protected is the government itself, that ten-mile area filled with power-mad, greedy politicians who have been put there through the vote after lying to their constituencies for term after term.
That, Folks, is the true intent behind every gun law now in force and those the government are trying to force upon the American people. What will follow is the destruction of the Constitution of the United States of America, and, hence, the destruction of the Republic of the United States of America is the ultimate aim, not a reduction in crime or school violence or "for the kids".
Should their aim be met, America as a Republic will have died. It will have died with the removal of -