The Biden/Harris ticket says it wants to go after guns. Beto O’Roarke has been mentioned as someone the Democrats could put in charge of taking them.
They think it should gun ownership should be a privilege at the government’s discretion. I remind them of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Before Joe Biden edits the Bill of Rights, the authors would like to speak”
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion … in private self-defense.” — John Adams
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people … to disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason.
“The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own Arms.” — Samuel Adams
“ …Arms … discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property … Horrid mischief would ensue were (law-abiding) deprived of the use of them.” — Thomas Paine
“(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation… (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” — James Madison
“A militia, when property formed, are in fact the people themselves … and include all men capable of bearing arms… To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess Arms and be taught alike … how to use them.” — Richard Henry Lee
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson
David Heflin,
Bradford
