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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 439672" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>I think I can get into our founding father's heads regarding the 2nd amendment.</p><p></p><p>John Adams: “Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."452</p><p>"Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense..."</p><p></p><p>James Madison: “[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...[where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”</p><p></p><p>Patrick Henry: "The great objective is that every man be armed ... . Everyone who is able may have a gun."</p><p></p><p>Samuel Adams: "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."</p><p></p><p>Thomas Paine: "Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order..."</p><p></p><p>Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."</p><p></p><p>Timothy Dwight, Army Chaplain during the American Revolution: "To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country."</p><p></p><p>Enjoy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 439672, member: 249"] I think I can get into our founding father's heads regarding the 2nd amendment. John Adams: “Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."452 "Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense..." James Madison: “[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...[where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” Patrick Henry: "The great objective is that every man be armed ... . Everyone who is able may have a gun." Samuel Adams: "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." Thomas Paine: "Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order..." Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." Timothy Dwight, Army Chaplain during the American Revolution: "To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country." Enjoy! [/QUOTE]
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