Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.
Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.
"The said Constitution should be never construed...to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." Samuel Adams.
"And 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." Thomas Jefferson
"The advantage of being armed is an advantage the Americans possess over people of almost every other nation...the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." James Madison (Remember this was in the 1700s)
"A free people ought to be armed." George Washington
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed - as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed." Noah Webster
"A militia...are in fact the people themselves...and are for the most part employed at home in their private concerns." Richard Henry Lee.
"Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people." George Mason (called Father of the Bill of Rights)
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Every state had within its own constitution the affirmation of the individual right to bear arms. The men quoted above were all signers of the Declaration and/or the Constitution and Bill of Rights. One would think that the liberals who are so worried that our Federal Government is on the road to tyranny would be first to champion the Second Amendment. Even Tom Paine, a Quaker, defended the rights of the Individual to bear arms. This information is found in a little booklet called "The Second Amendment" by David Barton.
11/09/2017
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