MEMBER BLOG TAG: guns
| Friday, February 18, 2011 2:48PM | | | | Guns R God | Tags: guns, women, Christians, Leviticus, taxes, Ten Commandments, entitlements, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Muslims, brown people, blacks, gays, claymores
| | | | I am a hunter, a gun owner, a Marine, an evangelical Christian, a native of Texas where the Land Commissioner believes a bullet is the best answer, and I have been married to the same woman for 57 years. Guys like me have a lot to fear. Without guns we would be as incidental as women, as superfluous as Palestinians. Guys like me pledge allegiance to one nation, divisible, under guns with all the liberty and justice you can hang on to with AK-47s and cop-killer bullets.
We fear losing profits. We don’t make guns but we can make money with guns. Sure, you can hold up a pick-and-pack store and scrounge a few bucks if you pack heat but you can sell a gun... | | | | | | | Tuesday, October 5, 2010 12:44PM | | | | Second Amendment & History | Tags: laws, guns, militia, presidential uses of militia, treason, insurrection
| | | | “The founding fathers” is a useful literary construct, but deceptive. There is no authoritative list of the “founding fathers,” and the revolutionaries who gained freedom and wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Second Amendment and the Militia Acts were a contentious bunch unified by a desire “to form a more perfect union” but with different ideas as to how to do it. Unlike the present political situation where one party wants the government to fail so corporations can rule, the founding fathers contended for their view but accepted majority rule.
It might be useful to consider what the founding fathers did. In 1786, three years after independence was won, before the Constitution was written, the first Congress met... | | | | | | | Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:58PM | | | | Second Amendment - first 10 words | Tags: Second Amendment, Constitution, Second Continental Congress, militia, guns
| | | | “A well-regulated militia, being necessary for a free state...” What did the “founding fathers” mean by those words?
Five politicians on the Supreme Court claimed that those words were meaningless, the founding fathers meant nothing by them. The National Rifle Association agreed that the words were idle chatter. Some white supremacists, politicians, and candidates for national office declare that the founding fathers intended the Second Amendment to enable citizens to rebel against the government.
Those who make such claims must overlook the written intention of the founding fathers, the militia acts, and history.
In 1777, “the Second Year of the Independence of America,” the founding fathers, sometimes referred to as the Second Continental Congress, adopted the Articles of Confederation. Article 6, paragraph 4: “every State shall... | | | | | |
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