However these are the same fools who think that gun control works and don’t understand that criminal types don’t follow the law in the first place because criminals think they won’t be caught. [url=http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm] These same people usually also suck at math. [/url]

The Diary Of An Eastern European Who Came To America Only To Become A Gun Tottin’- Bambi Huntin’ - Country Music Listenin’- Liberal Bashing - Republican Votin’ Redneck.

mike3481, without you Bash I may have never heard of this guy.

Thank You

STOP!!!!

Stop saying “Everyone,” “all the people,” etc. And, NO, NO, a thousand times NO, “person” does NOT mean “everyone.” You’re playing RIGHT into the gun grabbers hands by using the language so carelessly. They want to construe “people, and “the people” to mean the people as a whole, NOT the individuals; not each, separate, individual collection of unique DNA PERSON. Not me. Not you.

Our right to assemble is NOT the right of a chosen few, sanctioned by the government to assemble. It’s MINE. It’s YOURS. Our right to free speech is NOT the right of a few who get licenses — from the government — to broadcast, to speak. It means ME speaking right now, and YOU speaking right now.

“Everyone” means a crowd. A lot of people. And THAT can much, much too easily be construed as the people as a whole, which means NO INDIVIDUAL. “The People’s Potato Farm #367″ doesn’t belong to ANY individual. It belongs to “Everyone.”

That’s how it works in a Socialist state which is what these libs want. They want the “Power to the People,” which means to those FEW individuals who seize power, and hold it, and tell the rest of us — “the people” — that they’re doing everything for us, for our own good.

No, all of the rights in the First Amendment are INDIVIDUAL rights. And so is the Right in the Second.

A much better way to prove what the Framers meant is NOT to assert that they meant this or that. Rather, it is to show what they actually DID and did not DO.

Did the new government collect all the guns from the individuals who owned them? You know, those famous Minute Men who kept their personally owned weapon hanging over the door so as to be ready on a minutes notice? Did the government dare try to collect all of those guns from the people who had just got finished fighting a bloody, ruinous war against a tyrannical government with those guns?

No. They didn’t. Nope, the individual citizens KEPT their arms, and they BORE them on their persons freely, and without interference from the new government.

If you search, you will search in vain for any laws, or notices directing the people to turn in their guns to the government. You will search in vain for any court record, news paper account, or even diary entry relating how a citizen was prosecuted for owning, keeping, bearing, or failing to turn over his guns. Because it didn’t happen. It just didn’t.

Now, if the gun grabbers are right in their interpretation of the Second, are we then to conclude that the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution immediately set about VIOLATING not just a law, but the very founding document of their new government? Because that is what you MUST conclude to believe the crap they are trying to sell you.

But, it didn’t happen.

The Bradys of our country can quibble, and parse, and use all the big words they want to TELL you what the Framers meant by the Second, but all WE have to do is SHOW them what our Founders meant. What they meant is what they DID, and what they did is what they MEANT.

From my cold, dead hands, MOLON LABE.

Well said. No apologies necessary. You are 100% right. These are INDIVIDUAL rights and the framers knew what they were doing. We must mount a fierce push back on the liberal fascisti that are trying to shred the Constitution.

http://disinter.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/wyoming-sheriffs-put-feds-in-their-place/

http://disinter.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/wyoming-sheriffs-put-feds-in-their-place/

We live in a sound byte/video byte world. I’m trying to show a truth that busy people can grasp instantly.

We are still a basically fair-minded, law abiding people. We want to do what’s right. If they can convince enough people that the Founders actually meant that “the People,” and the “well regulated militia” meant the government controlled National Guard, then we will lose our guns.

We have to get people to ask, “Well if that’s what they meant, then why didn’t they do it?”

We have to show them how many rights they have already lost because some court — too often The Supreme Court — has suddenly found some meaning in the Constitution that nobody else found — including the people who WROTE it — for well over 100 years.

For example, don’t you think that if by prohibiting “cruel, and unusual punishment” the Founders meant hanging, or firing squad, or some method that might cause some pain, or even capital punishment itself, that they would have said so plainly? “No Capital Punishment.” Or, did they violate their brand new Constitution by continuing to use the death penalty?

Do you think that “Separation of Church and State” is in the Constitution, and that it means that God should be entirely absent, and purged from any government writing, or function? [Don’t worry. I’ll get back to our gun rights.]

Wellll….then what’s this doing there, at the end of the Constitution?:

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD [e.a.] one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.

“Oh, that’s just a meaningless formality” they’ll say.

Really? Then why do they get all hot and bothered by the Ten Commandments in the public square? Or a public school football coach silently BOWING HIS HEAD during a student-led prayer? If it’s a mere formality, they won’t mind putting it at the end of a new traffic law. Will they. Like Hell they wouldn’t.

NO, folks. The Founders did NOT mean to keep God out of government. Because they didn’t keep God out of the government. They STILL open every single daily session of the Supreme Court, and both houses of Congress with a PRAYER!! Been doing that since Day One!!

Explain that one, please. Congress OK, High School Graduation not OK???

What they meant to do — and DID — was NOT to keep God out of Government, but, rather, to keep Government out of Religion. It’s not a difficult concept, and it makes perfect sense: No State mandated religion, but merely mentioning God, or praying? Hey, People, knock yourselves out!

Because THAT is what THEY did, and continued to do.

It is no mere happenstance that the five Rights of the First Amendment literally, on paper, rest upon the single, lone, all-by-itself Right that is the entire Second Amendment. The Right that “shall not be infringed.*” They remembered all too well that they had to use their guns to get their Freedom, and even after to defend themselves, their families, and their property.

If the gun grabbers think we shouldn’t have guns, let them launch a drive to repeal the Second, out in the open.

*And, if the right to keep, and bear arms is only a collective right, only for the police, and militia, Please, Sarah, tell me why did they need to say that that right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED? What, they were afraid the government might infringe its own Right? Anybody believe that nonsense?

Great link, I hope more elected officals follow his lead.

And calm down, the spam comment filter gets a little crazy sometimes, but your comments will show up. Well, most of the time.