Interesting article - Do gun rights protect against tyranny?

[wrt81]

Found this today:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/20 ... st-tyranny

I found this part towards the end interesting:

In a dissent in a 2003 gun case, Appeals Court Judge Alex Kosinski laid out his views on the Second Amendment and tyranny. “The simple truth – born of experience – is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people,” he wrote.

“If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars,” Judge Kosinski said.

[OakRidgeStars]

Just like Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said, "You can't invade the United States, there will be a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass...."

Our right to keep and bear arms is the only thing standing between our current freedoms and those that want to take it away. Even if we were foolish enough to vote many of them into office.

[Reverenddel]

Tyranny comes in many forms. The power to tax is the power to destroy. Can't remember who said that, but it's more prevalent today than ever! Also, the analogy of the frog in a pot of water. He will jump out if put into a boiling pot, but if you turn the heat up slowly, it'll be too late before he realizes he's cooked!

Firearms are a control against INSTANT tyranny, but if you can't get a business license because of the cost, or maintain your business because of the taxes, or keep your home because of the regulations? That's tyranny as well!

We need Good Sense to be used in legislation, but if the G/A goes into session, and comes out with NO laws, we accuse them of "slacking". I wouldn't! Nothing would delight me more than to hear them say "Well, we have enough rules against everything, so instead of passing laws, we eliminated some."

[BluemontGlock]

"Well, we have enough rules against everything, so instead of passing laws, we eliminated some." ReverendDel

AMEN Brother DEL!

Everything is cocvered allrady, how could it not be?
they just don't read thier own law books anymore...

and/or feel the need to justify thier "job"

[zephyp]

Passing a law or laws, any law or laws is what legislators think their job is. It makes them look busy and usually satisfies some special interest group.

The problem is the law or laws they pass are usually already on the books.

[coltman]

I found this yellow flag with a rattlesnake on it, the flag reads 'Don't Tread on Me" Do you think our elected representatives need to understand the meaning of its symbolism, or are they still under the impression that they're in charge, independent of the consent of the governed?
Do we really need a court to tell us what the Second Amendment means? What is the meaning of
Shall not be infringed?? Are we still speaking English here?
Or do we let the television tell us right from wrong,the pollsters differentiate moral from immoral, the pundits tell us just from injust, and deny the evidence of our eyes and ears.
We know how to vote this year, and congress boys, hang on to your hats, it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Honest men and women may differ, but Freedom comes from the Almighty, and disobedience to Tyranny is obedience to God.

[krmgator]

The sole purpose of the 2ND A is to give citizens the means to protect themselves from the tyranny of the government.

Ruby Ridge and Waco are just two examples of that tyranny.

[Everett113]

Just like Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said, "You can't invade the United States, there will be a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass...."

Our right to keep and bear arms is the only thing standing between our current freedoms and those that want to take it away. Even if we were foolish enough to vote many of them into office.

+1

[CCFan]

Honest men and women may differ, but Freedom comes from the Almighty, and disobedience to Tyranny is obedience to God.

I decided it was time to change my avatar a while back, but hadn't decided on what to change it to yet.... Had been meaning to, and I picked the Revolutionary Battle Flag, reminded of it by your post.... inscribed on it is "Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - your quote reminded me of this flag, and so I thought "Why not?" You can see a good example of this flag here...