- March 4th, 2008, 4:08 pm
#161985
A-Train I'm all about New Zealand! GO ALL BLACKS!!!!
Besides, I would never live anywhere that abridges my right to self-defense and gun ownership. After all, Ben Franklin said that private gun ownership is essential to personal liberty.
Ben Franklin - "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the issue." [1759]
"An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject."
Thomas Jefferson - "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security."
Thomas Jefferson - "No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson - "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."
"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
Tench Coxe - "The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
George Mason - "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - "A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - "Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty."
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - "One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (Communist) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class)."
Adolf Hitler [1939] - "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilised nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
Sarah Brady - "Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Bill Clinton - "The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people."
Janet Reno - "Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. By 1987 that figure had risen to 61,911,000.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952 10,076,000 political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated in Kuomintang China, and by 1987 another 35,236,000 exterminations were carried out under the Communists.
Germany established gun control1 in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, without the means to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979 under General Idi Amin Dada, 300,000 Christians and political rivals of Amin, unable to defend them selves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. Between 1975 and 19793, 2,035,000 "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
The familiar list of mass murderers – Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot – only scratches the surface. The mass slaughter of helpless, unarmed civilian populations continues to this very day in Sudan, Rwanda, and parts of the former Yugoslavia.
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"Give me Liberty or give me Death"
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