The 2nd Amendment In Layman’s Terms

But do you really think the framers of the Consitution envisioned a world with today’s advanced and more sophisticated pizzas? I mean, we have Mexican salsa pizza now! My god, they couldn’t have known that tomatoes were going to be used in a salsa. They didn’t even have salsa back then! Surely, we have to regulate tomatoes used in salsa, and by extension, used in Mexican salsa pizza.

Usually I just ”keep” my guns.
On rare occasions I “bear” one of them.

I had a rare chance to bear arms at a fleeing felon just the other day.

He had gotten away from police and broken into a neighbor’s home.
My bedroom and bathroom windows were only 6 or 8 feet from the upstairs hall window where he was.
I took off the screen of my window and simply stood there with my gun.
At one point he ran up to that particular window, opened it all the way up and kicked out the screen, preparing to make the jump to my place.
Then he saw me, gun raised and pointing right at him.
He slammed the window shut and never returned to it.
The police finally sent in a dog to get him out.
Turned out it was his 3rd strike and he goes away for 25-to-life.
Good riddance!

The current sheriff of El Paso County, CO moved to CO from LA. Within a few months, he identified LA gang members as a crime force in the county. He initiated an agressive concealed carry program that has increased the number of residents who carry weapons legally in the county. One of his successes was an older woman who lived in an older part of Colorado Springs. She walked with a cane and was viewed by five gang members as esay prey as she returned from the market. When they threatened her with weapons, she shot three of them (wounded, not killed).

I remember “In Cold Blood”. I wonder if they had been armed with pizzas the family would have survived?

Waiting for conceal/carry to get thru the houses and signed by Governor Walker in Wisconsin….We finally have the right people in place to accomplish it…

But you forget that the Obama’s are trying to regulate food which I would bet would include pizza and everything that goes into it. I am certain that they also want to regulate tomatoes. They also want to control anything that has to do with air or water or soil. they want to regulate the oil in the ground and what you can do with it out of the ground. They regulate the water you flush. They want to regulate the money you make, how you make it, and how much you are allowed to keep. they want to regulate the products you use in your home, the financing for your home, and the lender that lends you money. they want to control they type of car you can drive and how long they intend to allow you to drive it before you have to get on a federally controlled bus or train. They control how fast you can drive and how you belt yourself and family into the car. They want to control what the car companies have to put into a car before you can buy it. They want to control your healtcare and force you to buy insurance as only the entry point on what else they plan to force you to purchase. The want death panels to tell you that you have to die and they want to make it legal to have marriage between humans and goats. they already have made it legal to kill babies and want to remove the rights of those with religious convictions to not participate in the holocaust. This list could go on forever.

Frankly, we became slaves to the federal government long ago and we now have the most aggressive socialist of all time in office along with his party that believes you have no rights at all.

@Mos 8541: That is why Colorado passed a “Make My Day Law”. It has been tested to include even someone leaving the scene of a break in or life threating situation. The armed robber was determined by a 12 person jury to continue to be a threat when he said he would be back.

The armed robber reminds me of our friends on the left. They are only wanting to redistribute the wealth. They are just using a “slightly” different process!

The simple fact of the matter is that the founding fathers wrote extensively on the 2nd amendment, and the importance of a population being armed in order to counteract a tyrannical government.

George Washington;

“A free people ought to be armed.”
– George Washington

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
– George Washington

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
– George Washington

Thomas Jefferson;

“The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They 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 (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria)

“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
– Thomas Jefferson

John Adams;

“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.” – John Adams

George Mason;

“To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them.”
– George Mason

“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians.”
– George Mason (father of the Bill of Rights and The Virginia Declaration of Rights)

James Madison;

“A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.”
– James Madison

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.”
– James Madison

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”
– James Madison

“The ultimate authority resides in the people alone.”
– James Madison

Those are but a handful of the numerous quotations from our founding fathers, who enshrined in the Constitution, our right to own, keep, and bear arms, for the purpose of remaining a free people. They further defined that right by denying any infringement upon it by the government. No matter the intentions of those who would infringe upon that right, be it ‘good’ or evil, they cannot do so under the supreme law of the land, and the single reason why that right has been infringed is due to an ignorant, non-thinking populace which has traded, for a little security, an essential, and just, liberty, recognized by our founding fathers not just as a right, but as a duty to engage in, so that this nation may remain free.

When the farmer left his weapons at home and counted on the sheriff to protect him and his family, he started a very bad sequence of events. Sheriffs gained the ability to control who had arms, and who could use them. Many families died because of that particular idiocy. This mode of life was encouraged by the women of that period and males who had no clue about reality. The bad guy has no morals and does not care about any laws that were made to “protect people”. When the males of that period acquiesced to this stupidity, things went downhill rapidly.
When you “farm out” your security, and/or protection, you will there after have neither.
There are good guys out there who would defend you with their life, and they do, they are known as America’s military. They can not be there immediately, neither can 911, YOU must be the first line of defense for yourself and your family. If you have arms and are willing and able use them, you have a chance, otherwise ……

@Bill Johnson:

I’d like to see them come to get my pitbull mix friend. I’m not sure what would happen first, my dog protecting me, or me protecting my dog, but either way, they’d better bring a lot.