Enough Infringement on the Second Amendment – Redwood Times

By | July 30, 2013

Let’s see what some of our founding fathers and presidents said about the Second Amendment relating to California’s anti-American and unconstitutional gun laws.”By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’ the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger, to our nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”~John F. Kennedy, April, 1960“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”~George Mason,co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia’s convention to ratify the Constitution, 1788Or:”Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.”~Thomas Jefferson,third president of the United StatesOr:”The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.”~Thomas Jefferson,third president of the United StatesOr my personal favorite:”Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”~George Washington,first president of the United StatesOr:”Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands.”~Patrick Henry,American patriotThe Second Amendment, as passed by the House and Senate and later ratified by the states, reads:”A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people shall not be infringed.”The definition of infringed is to violate another’s rights.

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