Originally posted by enlighten2012
reply to post by Illahee
am i not seeing what the right to bare arms is really about?????
maybe because i'm not american and i dont know the consitution to well though i dont get the fact that its your right to own a deadly weapon sorry.
maybe when in Oz our population hits 240 million then maybe (though i doubt it) think twice about the sanity of this.
dont americans go into other countries and wonder why they dont sell guns in their convenient stores?
if Obama loose's votes on this statement alone some people need to look outside the square alittle.
It is very simple oh unenlightned one. It is the right of every human to be able to protect their self from tyranny. The Founding Fathers of this
Greatest Nation on this pathetic Earth lived in a time when monarchies & theocracies literally enslaved their populations. It was a time monarchial
and theocratic tyranny. Dissent was dealt with by the governments of the time by killing their citizens - no jury, no judge, no witnesses, no lawyers.
The citizens were not free, they were considered chattel - i.e. they were owned by the King or Emperor and lived only because he or she allowed it.
The Founding Fathers of our nation threw off the yoke of kingly oppression ONLY because they had the latest and greatest technology - firearms!!!!
King George actually sent troops to disarm the British Colonies in the Americas.... but we fought back and we kicked their butts.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in such a way that we in this country recognize the self evident
truth that the only way for the People of a nation to truly possess Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is by being able to over-throw the
government by force of arms; when that government becomes oppressive and seeks to destroy the freedom of the People.
ALL THE CITIZENS OF OTHER NATIONS ON THIS PLANET HAVE BEEN DISARMED!
Do you understand what this means, grasshopper? It means that all of the people in those disarmed countries have allowed themselves to become chattel.
They are no longer truly free; though at this time they still possess the illusion of freedom. Those people now no longer have a way of countering the
jack-booted government thug that could easily round them up and put them into a concentration camp for euthanasia, or forced vaccination, of forced
labor camps, re-education, et cetera.
We the People of the united States of America still possess the ONE THING that allows us to retain what little TRUE freedoms we still possess. IF the
powers in the world succeed in stripping us of our human right to self protection then we too will only have the illusion of freedom... for a
while.
Unfortunately for you and the rest of the world it is too late.
The united States remains that Shining City on Hill; even though we aren't perfect we're tons better then other places.
-Euclid