ORIGINAL: younggun243
Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic party, and you think he was anti-gun? Heck, he wrote the Declaration of Independence!
You really put out an un-educated comment there.
Well now,
lets think about it for a minute. The founding fathers where a group of folks who had just fought a war against a tyranical government that want to tax them unmercifully without reprensentation. they had just took up there hunting rifles and threw done with the most powerful nation in the world. They didn't think that it was fair for the overstuffed, blow hards in england should sit on their collective arses and tell us what to do. They didn't want people who had lived previledged lifes who had no sense of what the real world was like pushing them around telling what they could say.Telling us what the press could write.Telling them what religion they had to follow.And they damn sure didn't want themto disarm us. So the writers of the constitution decided that it was so important that they wrote it out in plain english. "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The interesting part of that is the "a wellregulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state". Many people have debated this part. The anti gun crowd wants that part to mean that only police forces and military need weapons. But it doesn't say that, it say militia. Think about it in context. They had just formed militia's to fight the Brits. Where these militia's made up of police force or military for the government? No they were common folks taking up their hunting weapons and goin to war to fight for freedom. So what they are saying is: regular folks need weapons so that if the overstuffed presidents and senators and representatives get too big for their britches and try to tax us to death or over regulate us to the point of suffocation we can form up a militia and beat there butts down. Its all about checks and balances.
I for one am getting tired of heirs to the heinz fortune, or oil well fortunes, or whatever fortune who have never worked an honest day in their lives telling me what I can or can't own, and then expecting me to pay them a tax on my own property. You would be surprised if you done the research how much our government has become like the one we rebelled against in 1776.
just in case the CIA or Secret Service is prowling around: I AM NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CITING A RIOT OR PLANNING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. I am simply exercising my first admendment right of free speech.