Gun Control & RKBA

Many orators and writers have said this much better than I ever could.

On the negative side:
-Adolf Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms."
-Mao Tse Tung: "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."

On the positive side:
-The Dalai Lama: "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."
-Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm: "The Second Amendment was meant to accomplish two distinct goals…First, it was meant to guarantee the individual’s right to have arms for self-defense and self-preservation. These privately owned arms were meant to serve a larger purpose as well…and it is the coupling of these two objectives that has caused the most confusion. The customary American militia necessitated an armed public…the militia (being)…the body of the people. The argument that today’s National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation."
-Daniel Webster: "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority…the Constitution was made to guard against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-Patrick Henry: "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
-Thomas Jefferson: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-George Mason: "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them."
-Thomas Aquinas: "Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one’s life, one’s goods or one’s physical integrity; sometimes, even ’til the aggressor’s death."
-Augustine of Hippo: "Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."
-"But now whoever has a purse or a bag, must take it and whoever does not have a sword must sell his cloak and buy one." - Luke 22:36

Not on anyone's watch. It's not happening. I'm quite sure that there are at least 600,000 - 700,000 well trained warriors in this country. These folks will not give up. Many have arms and some don't. When I think about those unarmed warriors I remember the words of CSM Plumley "Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground."

225 years ago today, letters that became known as the Federalist Papers began appearing in newspapers.