hey guys, looking for some educated input to make myself a better pro 2A citizen…
a good deal of friends and coworkers know im a veteran and pro gun guy. but their constantly asking me question and some of those questions are hard to answer.
so i though my fellow m4c brother could help me out. and in tern help out everyone who reads this thread…
so lets post up some question and answers.
why do we “need” assault rifles? (my hippy coworkers argument is that the constitution needs an “update” so to speak, and didnt take into consideration that assault weapons would be so “deadly”, and that we no longer need “asssault” rifles to protect ourselves)
Obama is trying to protect people! (taking away deadly firearms will protect the citizens overall)
i half answered that question by explaining what happened to australia when they banned guns…
Rifles are the best tools for home defense. Also we need them to help fight potential future tyranny. Whether that be from our own government or an invading force.
Many people back in those days had personally owned cannons. The AR15 is a great weapon but it doesn’t match the destruction of a cannon.
Rifles are rarely used in homicides. On 2011 the US had around 8500 homicides caused by guns. 323 of those were rifles of any type. Rifles are used in approximately 2-3 percent of homicides yearly.
I get this one a lot. Why do you need X? First I ask if they understand with a ‘right’ is. Thanks to this forum I now follow up with this: “Rosa Parks did not need to sit in the front of the bus.”
That gives them pause and I follow up with asking if they remember the aftermath of hurricane Katrina and the lawlessness that followed. I tell them my best tool is an AR15 in that situation, really an insurance policy that I enjoy on the weekends. I also add that should the worst happen the site of someone being armed with an AR15 - a person that looks like they know how to use it - saves lives.
I have posted this here many times and will keep doing so until everyone yells at me to stop. It’s the preamble to the Bill of Rights. It leaves no doubt what our FF meant the Bill of Rights to be and the the term ‘the people’ meant just that.
Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution
I also quote Thomas Jefferson on arms since it was a letter from him that so influenced everyone’s thinking on the 1st Amendment, the famous ‘wall between church and state’. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/
Scholarly references for each quote are cited at that Web site.
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.” --Thomas Jefferson to his nephew Peter Carr, 1785.
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.” --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796.
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.” --Thomas Jefferson 1803.
“In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.” --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration on Taking Up Arms, 1775.
“[The] governor [is] constitutionally the commander of the militia of the State, that is to say, of every man in it able to bear arms.” --Thomas Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1811.
And then there is what Jesus thinks about weapons from the book of Mark:
But now if you have a moneybag, take it; if you have a food sack, do the same; if you don’t have a sword, sell you cloak and buy one. For I tell you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me: ‘He let himself be taken as a criminal.’ For what scripture said about me is even now reaching its fulfillment.