BuckyB93 wrote:Verbatim from the 2nd Amendment:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The people. This is a key point. You can massage it all you want with bull$hit like "they were talking about just muskets and stuff."
No they weren't. They wanted citizens to have a right to defend themselves against a tyrannical government and personal harm. Throughout history governments have used soldiers to oppress people. This is what the 2nd Amendment tries to prevent.
The fact is, the 2nd Amendment is in place empower the people and to keep the government in check if it comes to an armed conflict. It also makes a foreign country that might want to invade the US, think twice.
Here's a cut and past from an article published last year after deer hunting season that makes some great points.
"There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .... Allow me to restate that number: 600,000!
Over the last several months, Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.
(That’s more men under arms than in Iran .. More than France and Germany combined.)
These men, deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms, And NO ONE WAS KILLED.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan's 700,000 hunters, ALL OF WHOM HAVE RETURNED HOME SAFELY.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the Hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It's millions more.
The point?
America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower! Hunting... it's not just a way to fill the freezer.
It's a matter of national security.
That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.
Food for thought, when next we consider gun control. Overall it's true, so if we disregard some assumptions that hunters don't possess the same skills as soldiers, the question would still remain... What army of 2 million would want to face 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million armed citizens??? For the sake of our freedom, don't ever allow gun control or confiscation of guns.
(If you agree, as I do, pass it on, I feel good that I have an army of millions who would protect our land and I sure don't want the government taking control of the possession of firearms)
AMERICA! Designed by geniuses, Run by idiots!"
http://www.onwisconsinoutdoors.com/Firearms/AMERICAS-HUNTERS--Pretty-Amazing
Very good read thanks Bucky... I went to your link and shared it on FB and instantly the FB Fact Checkers jumped my post with this BullChit!!!
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I didn't submit a photo? I shared your link...
these COMMIE BASTAGES!!!!