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Best 2A Quote Ever:

Jeff Snyder, The Washington Times:

“But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.”
 
August 25, 1994 The Washington Times. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban was passed September 13, 1994. Snyder's voice of reason was trampled by the feel-good Democrat majorities in the Senate and House and signed by the Democrat President.
 
MacEntyre said:
Best 2A Quote Ever:

Jeff Snyder, The Washington Times:

“But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.”
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This must become our response. It must be driven home every opportunity to do so. No other response but this is needed for any event in which a gun is used for wrong

I have copied copied this so I can have this with me at all times.

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Thanks, dmarbell...

The essence of the “weapon of choice” argument is that, because criminals and madmen use these guns to commit crimes, the law- abiding must give them up. But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.

By criminalizing an act that is not wrong in itself the purchase and sale of a firearm the ban violates the presumption of innocence, the principle that insures that government honors the liberty of its citizens until their deeds convict them. By completely banning the sale of assault weapons to prevent crime before it occurs, the law effectively and irrebuttably presumes that all who want such a weapon are no better than murderers or madmen, forever ineligible to acquire these firearms.

Obviously, a law which restricts the liberty of the innocent because of the behavior of the guilty, that rests on principle that the conduct of criminals dictates the scope of liberty the law will allow to the rest of society, in no sense “fights” crime. It is, instead, a capitulation to crime, born of a society in full-bore retreat from crime, a society fearful of and desperately accommodating itself to crime.

Jeff Snyder
August 25, 1994
The Washington Times, page A19.
Who’s Under Assault in the Assault Weapon Ban?

Click the link to Read the Full Article... it's purty good.
 
MacEntyre said:
Thanks, dmarbell...

The essence of the “weapon of choice” argument is that, because criminals and madmen use these guns to commit crimes, the law- abiding must give them up. But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.

By criminalizing an act that is not wrong in itself the purchase and sale of a firearm the ban violates the presumption of innocence, the principle that insures that government honors the liberty of its citizens until their deeds convict them. By completely banning the sale of assault weapons to prevent crime before it occurs, the law effectively and irrebuttably presumes that all who want such a weapon are no better than murderers or madmen, forever ineligible to acquire these firearms.

Obviously, a law which restricts the liberty of the innocent because of the behavior of the guilty, that rests on principle that the conduct of criminals dictates the scope of liberty the law will allow to the rest of society, in no sense “fights” crime. It is, instead, a capitulation to crime, born of a society in full-bore retreat from crime, a society fearful of and desperately accommodating itself to crime.

Jeff Snyder
August 25, 1994
The Washington Times, page A19.
Who’s Under Assault in the Assault Weapon Ban?

Click the link to Read the Full Article... it's purty good.
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The problem is that at least 75% of the people don't understand what he is saying, it is beyond their reading comprehension to understand the words.
 
MacEntyre said:
Best 2A Quote Ever:

Jeff Snyder, The Washington Times:

“But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.”
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It's the last line of that statement that stands out in my mind, "that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow." When will The People realize, that it was the deeds of the lawless, that lead to the revolutionary war? Again, history does and is, repeating itself...
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
The next 20 percent don't Care. Leaving only us The Five percenters...
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Most cannot see the tree, for the forest. Most wait on some kind of a super hero( no such thing), everyone looks for someone else to blame. We are all responsible. If We remain lazy, and just hoping for things to change... We should get used to our chains. "and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"
The Declaration of Independence
 
Many years ago one of our Alumni asked The hardest question ever asked here. Everybody was harping about one thing or the other and he asked the entire crowd....What would have to happen for You to do something??? It got real quiet. It's a question repeated often here now. Nobody, including me, wants to be on the nightly news as a firearms hoarder who went berserk today. This will eventually have to be a group event. Otherwise we just help them make their case.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Many years ago one of our Alumni asked The hardest question ever asked here. Everybody was harping about one thing or the other and he asked the entire crowd....What would have to happen for You to do something??? It got real quiet. It's a question repeated often here now. Nobody, including me, wants to be on the nightly news as a firearms hoarder who went berserk today. This will eventually have to be a group event. Otherwise we just help them make their case.
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I believe that is why I became a member of the Facebook group Tacticalcivics.com From what I've seen and read so far, it is, the only full spectrum solution offered today, to restore our Republic and rule of law. I don't claim to know everything, but I do know right from wrong. It is the only peaceful plan out there, to get Americans involved, educated, and putting together a body of People to be the change we're looking for. Not politics, but Real Law Enforcement, as stipulated in the Constitution. We have all the tools at our disposal, left to us by the Framers of the Constitution, and past supreme court rulings. It is ultimately up to us now to do our due diligence, and inform the People. Mostly everyone here can agree that .gov has taken the power from the People, and when they fully disarm the population, we'll be living under absolute tyranny. It is my hope that more get involved.
 
Just keep in mind several things. The libs and gun grabbers do not want to hear the facts. The libs and gun grabbers do not want to be logical. The libs and gun grabbers do not care one smidgen about you, the Constitution, your children, your life, your safety, your property, your freedom, your rights, or anything else except your vote that will give them more power over you. That is why your vote is so important, even a vote for a lesser of two evils that you may not really like on some issues. This applies to local and state elections as well as to national elections.
 
Charlie said:
Just keep in mind several things. The libs and gun grabbers do not want to hear the facts. The libs and gun grabbers do not want to be logical. The libs and gun grabbers do not care one smidgen about you, the Constitution, your children, your life, your safety, your property, your freedom, your rights, or anything else except your vote that will give them more power over you. That is why your vote is so important, even a vote for a lesser of two evils that you may not really like on some issues. This applies to local and state elections as well as to national elections.
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If I was to vote for the lesser of two evils, I would feel I have done my country a grave disservice. Evil, is still evil, no matter which way you look at it. What have We all come to, when evil is the only choice?
 
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Did you just cus me in a meme? Lol. Just for the record, I do not support any form of murder... Unless we're getting rid of the dead weight that sucks the life out of the tax payer, known as the convicted serial killer/rapest/lifers. We live in a land of idiots, when it's illegal to kill unhatched bald eagle eggs, but legal, to kill unborn babies.
 
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Is this leagal? said:
If I was to vote for the lesser of two evils, I would feel I have done my country a grave disservice. Evil, is still evil, no matter which way you look at it. What have We all come to, when evil is the only choice?
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Voting for the lesser of two evils is a whole lot better than voting for the greater of two evils or not voting against the greater of two evils. It is very sad what our choices have become at times. Politics are, indeed, local since we make choices locally about who will make our laws and who will make laws to try to control us. We need to do a whole lot better locally and at the state level getting good people to run. That is easier said than done.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Many years ago one of our Alumni asked The hardest question ever asked here. Everybody was harping about one thing or the other and he asked the entire crowd....What would have to happen for You to do something??? It got real quiet. It's a question repeated often here now. Nobody, including me, wants to be on the nightly news as a firearms hoarder who went berserk today. This will eventually have to be a group event. Otherwise we just help them make their case.
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Unfortunately, there will those that will be sacrificed on the altar of freedom before the rest take up the fight. But, they will be the catalyst that starts the fire.
 
georgel said:
Unfortunately, there will those that will be sacrificed on the altar of freedom before the rest take up the fight. But, they will be the catalyst that starts the fire.
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Is this not the way it always is? This is because common sense is missing from our country and it will take an act so galvanizing, that the rest of the sane minded people will join in! Look at the people of Germany during WWII. Most stood there while their neighbors, the Jews were hauled away to camps. Most of the Jews themselves didn’t fight back, they walked into the trenches to be shot, showers to be gassed, and the gallows to hang willingly. Every one thinks,” This can’t happen to me!” Well, it can, and it did, and when will the people of this country understand that? After they have been rounded up and put in camps awaiting the “Final Solution “!?
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Many years ago one of our Alumni asked The hardest question ever asked here. Everybody was harping about one thing or the other and he asked the entire crowd....What would have to happen for You to do something??? It got real quiet. It's a question repeated often here now.
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CFF circa 1774

Fairly certain just shy of 250 years ago, a lot of the conversations being had around tavern tables at the Green Dragon are very similar to the ones we’re having now.
 
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CFF circa 1774

Fairly certain just shy of 250 years ago, a lot of the conversations being had around tavern tables at the Green Dragon are very similar to the ones we’re having now.
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I have been reading this book called, We the People, documents and writings of the founding fathers. I'm not fairly certain, I'm 100% certain. Evil is here folks, even at the door. My dad said to me Sunday... "Boy you can't stand up to the government". My reply was,"why not? We did it in 1775!" Look guys, I don't care who you are, right is right, wrong is wrong. I cannot for the life that the Good Lord has blessed me with today, take a back seat to evil. I'll call it out, whenever, and wherever I see it. If someone supports this thing We have today, they have declared themselves, in my eyes, an enemy to God fearing Americans. This is, and was, never about your gun rights. This is the battle for your minds, and ultimately... Your soul.
 
For quite a while now, it has been hammered into our heads that blind obedience is the way....no questions, no dissent, no disobedience (even if civil) and no rebellion.

Well...that’s a crock-o-shite and it stinketh. It’s one of the biggest shams that’s ever been pulled on the American people and unfortunately, too many have bought into it.

Asking questions, dissenting, disobeying and having a rebellious spirit were the building blocks of the Republic...it’s why we’re here. Without them and the folks willing to hold to them, we’d still be under rule of the British empire. Instead of discouraging those qualities, we should have been planting and cultivating them in every generation since the beginning, but doing so throws a wrench into the machines of authoritarianism and tyranny, causing them to seize up and come to a screeching stop....it’s precisely why those attributes have been castigated and branded as “unpatriotic” or “unAmerican”...all part of the plan to subjugate a people.

In my opinion, there’s still enough folks refusing to give up on those qualities that have made and still make Americans who they are.

One of the most patriotic and “American” acts any person can make is the individual choice to live as a free citizen.
 
I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff right before his book came out. He was like a deer in the headlights, embraced enthusiastically by the gun culture. He was modest and unassuming and a real pleasure to talk with. If you have not read "Nation of Cowards" in its entirety, I strongly recommend that you do so.
 
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