The "Red Flag" law! Have you heard of it? Have you read it? Do you know what it entails? Is your state one of those 30 plus states who have either signed on to the law or are seriously thinking about enacting a similar law?
It's nothing more than a gateway to wholesale gun confiscation.
But, don't let me influence you. Read the article and the comments and do your own research. Educate yourself and make your own decision based on your research results.
In the meantime I captured this response by one of the readers/contributors to the site, Tyrone Jackson. Jackson wrote this in response to another reader's challenge that he misunderstood the Founding Father's true intentions when our Second Amendment was drafted.
Here's the rebuttal Jackson gave to one of the other "guests" on the site. If you go to the link above and drop down to the comments you can view the entire exchange.
Here are a few quotes from our Founding Fathers that clarify their viewpoint regarding our Second Amendment:
(BTW - I find it amusing when people Up Vote their own comments)
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“The right … of bearing arms… is declared to be inherent in the people.”
Fisher Ames, one of the framers of the 2nd Amendment in the first congress
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“The great object is that every man be armed … Everyone who is able may have a gun. But have we not learned by experience that, necessary as it is to have arms … it is still far from being the case?”
-Patrick Henry
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“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
“And what country can preserve its liberties if its rules are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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“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”
-Richard Henry Lee
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“The advantage of being armed is an advantage which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
-James Madison
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“A free people ought … to be armed.”
-George Washington
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The founders meant the militia to be we, the people. Each of us individually is “the militia.”
So, what is this militia? Try these quotes on that topic:
“The militia are the people at large.”
-Tench Coxe Attny. Gen. of Penn. and Asst. Sec of Treasury under Washington
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“Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.”
-George Mason
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“The militia is composed of free citizens.”
-Samuel Adams
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“A militia… are in fact the people themselves.”
-Richard Henry Lee
(BTW - I find it amusing when people Up Vote their own comments)
.
“The right … of bearing arms… is declared to be inherent in the people.”
Fisher Ames, one of the framers of the 2nd Amendment in the first congress
.
“The great object is that every man be armed … Everyone who is able may have a gun. But have we not learned by experience that, necessary as it is to have arms … it is still far from being the case?”
-Patrick Henry
.
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
“And what country can preserve its liberties if its rules are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
-Thomas Jefferson
.
“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”
-Richard Henry Lee
.
“The advantage of being armed is an advantage which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
-James Madison
.
“A free people ought … to be armed.”
-George Washington
.
The founders meant the militia to be we, the people. Each of us individually is “the militia.”
So, what is this militia? Try these quotes on that topic:
“The militia are the people at large.”
-Tench Coxe Attny. Gen. of Penn. and Asst. Sec of Treasury under Washington
.
“Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.”
-George Mason
.
“The militia is composed of free citizens.”
-Samuel Adams
.
“A militia… are in fact the people themselves.”
-Richard Henry Lee
....Tyrone Jackson silenced his critic with this post. Great information here!
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