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In Defense of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
« on: March 01, 2018, 09:46:32 AM »
Judge Napolitano hits another one out of the park.

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In Defense of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Judge Andrew Napolitano | Posted: Mar 01, 2018 12:01 AM

The Ash Wednesday massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, seems to have broken more hearts than similar tragedies that preceded it. It was no more senseless than other American school shootings, but there is something about the innocence and bravery and eloquence of the youthful survivors that has touched the souls of Americans deeply.

After burying their dead, the survivors have mobilized into a mighty political force that loosely seeks more laws to regulate the right to keep and bear arms. The young people, traumatized and terrified with memories of unspeakable horror that will not fade, somehow think that a person bent on murder will obey gun laws.

Every time I watch these beautiful young people, I wince, because in their understandable sadness is the potential for madness -- "madness" being defined as the passionate and stubborn refusal to accept reason. This often happens after tragedy. After watching the government railroad Abraham Lincoln's killer's conspirators -- and even some folks who had nothing to do with the assassination -- the poet Herman Melville wrote: "Beware the People weeping. When they bare the iron hand."

It is nearly impossible to argue rationally with tears and pain, which is why we all need to take a step back from this tragedy before legally addressing its causes.

If you believe in an all-knowing, all-loving God as I do, then you accept the concept of natural rights. These are the claims and privileges that are attached to humanity as God's gifts. If you do not accept the existence of a Supreme Being, you can still accept the concept of natural rights, as it is obvious that humans are the superior rational beings on earth. Our exercise of reason draws us all to the exercise of freedoms, and we can do this independent of the government. Stated differently, both the theist and the atheist can accept the concept of natural human rights.

Can't say it better.  So, here's the rest of the link:  https://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2018/03/01/in-defense-of-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-n2455500
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

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Re: In Defense of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2018, 05:01:47 PM »
Maybe some of our Founders can help?

Warning: A very long post. :whistling:

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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.

Noah Webster

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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith

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" ... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

George Mason

Take it from an expert on why governments need to regulate, ban and confiscate arms ...

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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.

History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.

Adolph Hitler


To sum it all up ...

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As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
(Tench Coxe in ‘Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution' under the Pseudonym ‘A Pennsylvanian' in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1)


"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves?

Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American.... [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

(Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.)



TENCH COXE

A fascinating read on this relatively unknown Secondary Founder at the PDF link below.

https://tinyurl.com/yb43ymbr

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The intent of the second Amendment was to insure that every able-bodied man in America would be armed in the event that the federal government or America’s own standing army turned on its people.

Our founders were keenly aware that armament would continue to improve and become more efficient and thus ... the 2nd Amendment has Shall Not Be Infringed as it's foundation.

 
It wasn't just the government that possessed sophisticated arms ... the Common Folk of the era owned what today's gun grabbers would call militarized weapons.

By the time the 2nd amendment was adopted, (December 15, 1791) assault weapons already existed.

Contrary to what the liberals and gun grabbers want us to believe ... there were repeater, multi-shot rifles even before the Revolutionary period.

The Girandoni air rifle is a repeating rifle capable of firing 22 shots in under a minute without a reload and was developed before the 19th century.(circa: 1790)

An example carried by explorers Lewis and Clark.
A butt reservoir air rifle, .31" caliber.




The Kalthoff repeater was a musket with two magazines and could hold 7, 12 and some say 30 rounds ... developed in the 1600's!




The Belton flintlock was a repeating flintlock design using superposed loads, which could fire 20 rounds in 5 seconds with one pull of the finger.

Superposed loads were powder and ball, stacked one on top of the other, and had twelve individual touch holes.
 
Developed in the 1700's and worked somewhat like a Roman Candle
(Sorry no known examples but you can search under superposed loads and find examples of other makers)



The Puckle gun patented in 1718 and was one of the earliest weapons to be referred to as a machine gun.

True, it could only fire 9 rounds a minute but what I get a kick out of .. There were two versions.
 
One version could fire round bullets whereas another version could fire shot or even square bullets!



The Puckle Gun was invented and patented in 1718 by London lawyer James Puckle.
It was designed to fire round bullets at Christians and square bullets at the Muslim Turks.

Square bullets were believed to cause more severe wounding than round ones, and according to the 1718 patent, ‘would convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization’.





Then there was the 24-barrel pepper-box revolver using percussion cap technology.
(Ugly Cuss)
The first pepper-box revolvers originated in the 1500s and used matchlock mechanisms.

This particular specimen was made in the 1850s by a Belgian gun maker and used percussion cap technology.



These are just a few examples of the known hundreds of Military Type Assault Weapons (lib speak)  from eras before or soon after the 2nd amendment was adopted.

If anti-gunners want to play the game that "the 2nd Amendment only referred to muskets," well, the 1st Amendment only referred to hand-operated printing presses and town criers.


So anytime a leftist gun grabber tells you that the second amendment is meant for the type of weapons from that era, tell them fine .. I'll have a Machine Gun please!

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Way back in my army days, we were given the following manual.

You can see from what I am posting that killing ... even mass murder is always going to be 'doable' if you know what to do!

(I could build an automatic and the ammo to go with it ...  given the right material, which is pretty easy to get.)







That is basically what the manual is about.

Table of Contents

    Section 0 — Introduction

        0.1 Purpose and Scope
        0.2 Safety and Reliability
        0.3 User Comments

    Section 1 — Explosives and Propellants (including igniters)

        1.1 Plastic Explosive Filler
        1.2 Potassium Nitrate
        1.3 Improvised Black Powder
        1.4 Nitric Acid
        1.5 Initiator for Dust Explosions
        1.6 Fertilizer Explosive
        1.7 Carbon Tet – Explosive
        1.8 Fertilizer AN-Al Explosive
        1.9 “Red or White Powder” Propellant
        1.10 Nitric Acid/Nitrobenzene (“Hellhoffite”) Explosive
        1.11 Optimized Process for Cellulose/Acid Explosives
        1.12 Methyl Nitrate Dynamite
        1.13 Urea Nitrate Explosive
        1.14 Preparation of Copper Sulfate (Pentahydrate)
        1.15 Reclamation of RDX from C4
        1.16 TACC (Tetramminecopper (II) Chlorate)
        1.17 HMTD
        1.18 Potassium or Sodium Nitrite and Litharge (Lead Monoxide)
        1.19 DDNP
        1.20 Preparation of Lead Picrate
        1.21 Preparation of Picric Acid from Aspirin
        1.22 Double Salts
        1.23 Sodium Chlorate
        1.24 Mercury Fulminate
        1.25 Sodium Chlorate and Sugar or Aluminum Explosive

    Section 2 — Mines and Grenades

        2.1 Pipe Hand Grenade
        2.2 Nail Grenade
        2.3 Wine Bottle Cone Charge
        2.4 Grenade-Tin Can Land Mine
        2.5 Mortar Scrap Mine
        2.6 Coke Bottle Shaped Charge
        2.7 Cylindrical Cavity Shaped Charge
        2.8 Not Available
        2.9 Funnel Shaped Charge
        2.10 Linear Shaped Charge

    Section 3 — Small Arms Weapons and Ammunition

        3.1 Pipe Pistol for 9 mm Ammunition
        3.2 Shotgun (12 gauge)
        3.3 Shotshell Dispersion Control
        3.4 Carbine (7.62 mm Standard Rifle Ammunition)
        3.5 Reusable Primer
        3.6 Pipe Pistol for .45 Caliber Ammunition
        3.7 Match Gun
        3.8 Rifle Cartridge
        3.9 Pipe Pistol for .38 Caliber Ammunition
        3.10 Pipe Pistol for .22 Caliber Ammunition — Long or Short Cartridge
        3.11 Low Signature System

    Section 4 — Mortars and Rockets

        4.1 Recoilless Launcher
        4.2 Shotgun Grenade Launcher
        4.3 Grenade Launcher (57 mm Cardboard Container)
        4.4 Fire Bottle Launcher
        4.5 Grenade Launchers
        4.6 60 mm Mortar Projectile Launcher

    Section 5 — Incendiary Devices

        5.1 Chemical Fire Bottle
        5.2 Igniter from Book Matches
        5.3 Mechanically Initiated Fire Bottle
        5.4 Gelled Flame Fuels

            5.4.1 Lye Systems
            5.4.2 Lye-Alcohol Systems
            5.4.3 Soap-Alcohol System
            5.4.4 Egg White Systems
            5.4.5 Latex Systems
            5.4.6 Wax Systems
            5.4.7 Animal Blood Systems

        5.5 Acid Delay Incendiary
        5.6 Improvised White Flare
        5.7 Improvised Iron Oxide
        5.8 Improvised Yellow Flare
        5.9 Improvised White Smoke Munition
        5.10 Improvised Black Smoke Munition

    Section 6 — Fuses, Detonators & Delay Mechanisms

        6.1 Electric Bulb Initiator
        6.2 Fuse Igniter from Book Matches
        6.3 Delay Igniter from Cigarette
        6.4 Watch Delay Timer
        6.5 No-Flash Fuse Igniter
        6.6 Dried Seed Timer
        6.7 Fuse Cords

            6.7.1 Fast Burning Fuse
            6.7.2 Slow Burning Fuse

        6.8 Clothespin Time Delay Switch
        6.9 Time Delay Grenade
        6.10 Can-Liquid Time Delay
        6.11 Short Term Time Delay for Grenade
        6.12 Long Term Time Delay for Grenade
        6.13 Detonator

    Section 7 — Miscellaneous

        7.1 Clothespin Switch
        7.2 Mousetrap Switch
        7.3 Flexible Plate Switch
        7.4 Metal Ball Switch
        7.5 Altimeter Switch
        7.6 Pull-Loop Switch
        7.7 Knife Switch
        7.8 Improvised Scale
        7.9 Rope Grenade Launching Technique
        7.10 Bicycle Generator Power Source
        7.11 Automobile Generator Power Source
        7.12 Improvised Battery (Short Lasting)
        7.13 Improvised Battery (2 Hour Duration)
        7.14 Armor Materials

    Appendix 1 — Primary High Explosives

        A1.1 Mercury Fulminate
        A1.2 Lead Styphnate
        A1.3 Lead Azide
        A1.4 DDNP

    Appendix 2 — Secondary High Explosives

        A2.1 TNT
        A2.2 Nitrostarch
        A2.3 Tetryl
        A2.4 RDX
        A2.5 Nitroglycerin
        A2.6 Commercial Dynamite
        A2.7 Military Dynamite
        A2.8 Amatol
        A2.9 PETN
        A2.10 Blasting Gelatin
        A2.11 Composition B
        A2.12 Composition C4
        A2.13 Ammonium Nitrate

    Colophon

        C.1 Version History

            C.1.1 Version 1.0 (1969)
            C.1.2 Version 2.0 (1970s)
            C.1.3 Version 3.0 (2007 – Thanks-to-Feinstein's Electronic Edition)

        C.2 Copyright Information




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