■“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

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

■“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms….The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants” (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William S. Smith in 1787)

I agree with you when you further say, “We have an obligation to use the ballot and the court system to hold our government accountable.” However, the founding fathers had the foresight to gauranteed us additional rights (as in the right to bear arms) if our ballots are corrupted and the court system circumvented.

How come all of these shootings have taken place in gun free zones? I am waiting for a anti gun person to answer this one simple question. Also how come no one mentions the school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas? The shooter was stopped by a principal with a weapon.

The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

“Usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers” — not Bambi, not burglars.”
posted by GraniteGrok.com

“It’s about the 2nd Amendment and the DUTY of American citizens to take up arms against an enemy, foreign or domestic, including our own criminal government.”

I disagree with you, wholeheartedly. There is no duty to take up arms against our government. That is bullshit. You are making stuff up.

We have an obligation to use the ballot and the court system to hold our government accountable. It is not easy. But, I revere Martin Luther King, who faced far more injustice that you can possibly imagine. He was non-violent and he successfully used the court system and the ballot box to change the awful laws in our country.

If you and those like you embrace “Strong gun control” as a solution or even as a partial solution to what should be the larger debate you’ve missed the point.

That larger debate should be about violence in our society as promoted by our government, media, and economic oppression.

By supporting “Strong gun control” you have allowed yourself to become an agent to the same government whose deeds include giving guns to Mexician drug cartels, killing women and children at Waco, and countless for profit wars.

Be careful of the comany you keep and their real motives.