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GUN
CONFISCATION STARTED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
or History for Dummies
The
War Begins British troops, sent to confiscate American arms and
supplies, were resisted by Massachusetts militiamen at Lexington
and Concord on April 19, 1775. This broadside printed at Salem,
Massachusetts, a few days later dramatically displays the coffins
of the forty Americans killed. The British were reported to have
suffered 65 dead, 180 wounded, and 27 missing.
http://www.rjohara.net/gen/wars/revolution.html
Massachusetts
Colony was a hotbed of sedition in the spring of 1775. Preparations
for conflict with the Royal authority had been underway throughout
the winter with the production of arms and munitions, the training
of militia (including the minutemen), and the organization of
defenses. In April, General Thomas Gage, military governor of
Massachusetts decided to counter these moves by sending a force
out of Boston to confiscate weapons stored in the village of Concord
and capture patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock reported
to be staying in the village of Lexington. ... http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lexington.htm
The
War Begins -- British troops, sent to confiscate American
arms and supplies, were resisted by Massachusetts militiamen at
Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. ... http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-2.html
"The
2A never has meant 'Jack-spit' about bird hunting or target shooting.
Such leftist babble was disingenuous, duplicitous and an outrage
to defend the indefensible. The fact is the 2A was specifically
intended to provide American citizens with the tools necessary
to rise up and overthrow an abusive government. It was written
by men who had just done that very thing.
The first 3 battles of the American Revolution were not about
taxation, or representation, or even the list of grievances delineated
in the Declaration of Independence ... the first 3 battles of
the War for Independence were over gun control. [read: Lexington
1775] When Captain Parker faced off the British on the Green in
Lexington it was to prevent the British from confiscating "power
and ball".
It was again Thomas Jefferson who said, "The strongest reason
for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a
last resort, to protect themsleves against tyranny in government."
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OH
BY THE WAY:
DOJ
Concludes 2nd Amend. Secures Individual Right:
Conclusion For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the Second
Amendment secures an individual right to keep and to bear arms.
Current case law leaves open and unsettled the question of whose
right is secured by the Amendment. Although we do not address
the scope of the right, our examination of the original meaning
of the Amendment provides extensive reasons to conclude that the
Second Amendment secures an individual right, and no persuasive
basis for either the collective-right or quasi-collective-right
views. The text of the Amendment's operative clause, setting out
a "right of the people to keep and bear Arms," is clear and is
reinforced by the Constitution's structure.
The Amendment's prefatory clause, properly understood, is fully
consistent with this interpretation. The broader history of the
Anglo-American right of individuals to have and use arms, from
England's Revolution of 1688-1689 to the ratification of the Second
Amendment a hundred years later, leads to the same conclusion.
Finally, the first hundred years of interpretations of the Amendment,
and especially the commentaries and case law in the pre-Civil
War period closest to the Amendment's ratification, confirm what
the text and history of the Second Amendment require.
Here
is their conclusion and you can read the complete memo at: http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
The
wire service press release:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=40899
AN
INDIVIDUAL RIGHT by
Geoff Metcalf, 12/24/04
AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT
By Geoff Metcalf December 24, 2004 NewsWithViews.com
"The beauty of the second amendment
is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." --Thomas
Jefferson
Guess what? The Second Amendment,
("A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of
a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed.") has, does, and will secure "an individual
right to keep and bear arms."
You knew that. I knew that. However,
a cabal of leftists remains in denial over what even their own
Constitutional scholar had concluded.
Notwithstanding the itching and
moaning and gnashing of teeth from the left wing radical fringe,
it is an empirical fact that our God given inalienable right to
keep and bear arms is FACT.
The U.S. Department of Justice's
Office of Legal Counsel has officially concluded the Second Amendment
"secures an individual right to keep and bear arms." Duh!
Despite having been dated Aug.
24, the 93-page document was just released. 'Someone' delayed
the release for apparent political reasons. This is passing strange
considering even liberal democrats acknowledge one of the key
components that cost Al Gore his presidential dream was his having
embraced the Chuck Schumer/Diane Fienstein/Babs Boxer anti-gun
mantra.
The belatedly released research
notes, "examination of the original meaning of the Amendment provides
extensive reasons to conclude that the Second Amendment secures
an individual right, and no persuasive basis for either the collective-right
or quasi-collective-right views."
As Second Amendment Foundation
founder Alan M. Gottlieb observed, "Henceforth, all Americans
will know that the claim by anti-gunners that the Amendment only
protects some mythical right of the states to form militias and
National Guard units is an outright fraud."
Please note the 'allegedly unbiased'
mainstream hasn't said "Jack" about this epiphany.
Even, liberal darling and Harvard
Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe acknowledged the obvious
in 1999 (and again the mainstream media silence was deafening).
Tribe is arguably the most influential
living American constitutional scholar. In 1999 he concluded,
"the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without
some unusually strong justification."
Tribe confirmed it includes an
individual right, "admittedly of uncertain scope," to "possess
and use firearms in the defense of themselves and their homes."
The personification of the Metcalf
Bromide of "Some people just don't want to be confused with FACTS
that contradict their preconceived opinions or prejudices." Is,
and has been, the ant-gun crowd.
In 2002 when a legal brief was
filed by the Justice Department declaring that this protection
extends to an individual's right to keep and bear arms irrespective
of their involvement in a state militia the gun control crowd
threw a hissy fit. Sonic wedgie time: "The worst fears about Attorney
General Ashcroft have come true: His extreme ideology on guns
has now become government policy." said Mike Barnes, president
of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Despite his extensive liberal bona
fides, Tribe (begrudgingly and belatedly) concluded that the Constitution
ensured to each American a right to "possess and use firearms
in defense of themselves and their homes."
The Second Amendment never has
meant 'Jack-spit' about bird hunting or target shooting. Such
leftist babble was disingenuous, duplicitous and an outrage to
defend the indefensible.
The fact is the Second Amendment
was specifically intended to provide American citizens with the
tools necessary to rise up and overthrow an abusive government.
It was written by men who had just done that very thing.
The first three battles of the
American Revolution were not about taxation, or representation,
or even the list of grievances delineated in the Declaration of
Independence....the first three battles of the War for Independence
were over gun control. [read: Lexington 1775] When Captain Parker
faced off the British on the Green in Lexington it was to prevent
the British from confiscating "power and ball".
"There should be no doubt," Gottlieb
concluded, "that those who have campaigned for restrictive gun
laws or outright gun bans have been working to rob Americans of
a constitutional right, a civil right. The time has come for America
to re-examine every restrictive federal and state firearms statute,
every local ordinance and every regulation, and start erasing
those that were written solely to infringe on the rights of individual,
law-abiding citizens to peaceably own firearms of their choice,
without ever again having to explain why." Despite his righteous
indignation, I hope Alan isn't holding his breath.
It was again Thomas Jefferson who
said, "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themsleves
against tyranny in government."
"Geoff Metcalf is a nationally
syndicated radio talk show host for TALK AMERICA and a veteran
media performer. He has had an eclectic professional background
covering a wide spectrum of radio, television, magazine, and newspapers.
A former Green Beret and retired Army officer he is in great demand
as a speaker.
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