Quote:A testimony of a Texas woman named Suzanna Gratia-Hupp in the mid-90’s bears repeating. She became a Texas state representative in 1996 after she testified around the country in support of concealed handguns that were previously against the law in Texas. Her testimony is a powerful story showing the importance of gun ownership and possession especially in the massacre situation that she was in that killed 24 including her own parents and injured 20:
Quote:Her last line sums it up well. Speaking to the panel of congressional representatives, she said, “The 2nd Amendment is not about duck hunting. It’s about our rights to protect ourselves from all of you.”
(12-21-2012 09:52 AM)Paul M Wrote: Just like the school shooting, you find another mass murder funny. Something is seriously wrong with you.
No, I find your stupidity funny. I find school shootings tragic.
So do people have a right to protect themselves? If so, how? We all can't have Uzi toting Secret Service agents tagging along with us, so why can't we have the next best thing? I'll give up my self defense when obama gives up his.
A covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For … no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from death.
Thomas Hobbes
The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves …
Eugene V. Debs
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
The Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Patrick Henry
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Thomas Jefferson
