Beers with our Founding Fathers - Second Amendment

Beers with our Founding Fathers
Second Amendment
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Update 12/31/2014
Credit to my wife for finding what I couldn't! If only I would have found and known this before writing my book a year ago. I saw this by accident a couple months ago and then forgot to save it. From http://susvalleypolicy.org/policynews.asp?aid=464
As early as 384 BC, Aristotle rejected a proposed plan for a society by Hippodamos in which only one class of citizens would bear arms. Aristotle argued that the citizens without arms would become "virtually the servants of those who do possess arms." and The Chinese Emperor Han rejected a petition in 124 BC to seize all arms from the people. He responded, "When the ancients made the five kinds of weapons, it was not for the purpose of killing each other, but to prevent tyranny and to punish evil." and specific to our 2nd Amendment - One of the major forces behind the Bill of Rights was Richard Henry Lee who observed, "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." The control of arms is like the control of literacy - to control people, thought and freedom.
Update of 05/11/2013
A report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that firearm homicides in general, and violence at schools, have decreased substantially during the last two decades; the percentage of homicides committed with firearms has decreased; and only a tiny percentage of state prison inmates imprisoned for gun offenses obtain their guns from gun shows.
Protection of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
At the time of the writing of this section, unlike when this work was first started, the issue of private ownership of firearms has become hyper-emotional. Gun control is the message conveyed in every manner of the First Amendment, yes – even religion has been brought into it. Let us start by understanding one simple statement – I am unequivocally opposed to the revocation or amendment of our Bill of Rights. Our collective Bill of Rights is guaranteed by our Declaration of Independence – they are interwoven by the acts of our Founding Fathers and revolutionary contemporaries. The Constitution provides no authority for Congress or the states to regulate the ownership of firearms. There has been no historical amendment. Constitutionally speaking, the only 'license' needed to lawfully carry and possess a firearm is provided for in the Second Amendment. To date, not a single person has been able to rebut this.
Second Amendment
Download the full chapter -- Second Amendment
< click here to order >
Update 12/31/2014
Credit to my wife for finding what I couldn't! If only I would have found and known this before writing my book a year ago. I saw this by accident a couple months ago and then forgot to save it. From http://susvalleypolicy.org/policynews.asp?aid=464
As early as 384 BC, Aristotle rejected a proposed plan for a society by Hippodamos in which only one class of citizens would bear arms. Aristotle argued that the citizens without arms would become "virtually the servants of those who do possess arms." and The Chinese Emperor Han rejected a petition in 124 BC to seize all arms from the people. He responded, "When the ancients made the five kinds of weapons, it was not for the purpose of killing each other, but to prevent tyranny and to punish evil." and specific to our 2nd Amendment - One of the major forces behind the Bill of Rights was Richard Henry Lee who observed, "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." The control of arms is like the control of literacy - to control people, thought and freedom.
Update of 05/11/2013
A report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that firearm homicides in general, and violence at schools, have decreased substantially during the last two decades; the percentage of homicides committed with firearms has decreased; and only a tiny percentage of state prison inmates imprisoned for gun offenses obtain their guns from gun shows.
Protection of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
At the time of the writing of this section, unlike when this work was first started, the issue of private ownership of firearms has become hyper-emotional. Gun control is the message conveyed in every manner of the First Amendment, yes – even religion has been brought into it. Let us start by understanding one simple statement – I am unequivocally opposed to the revocation or amendment of our Bill of Rights. Our collective Bill of Rights is guaranteed by our Declaration of Independence – they are interwoven by the acts of our Founding Fathers and revolutionary contemporaries. The Constitution provides no authority for Congress or the states to regulate the ownership of firearms. There has been no historical amendment. Constitutionally speaking, the only 'license' needed to lawfully carry and possess a firearm is provided for in the Second Amendment. To date, not a single person has been able to rebut this.