Even Jesus opposed gun control

The framers of the Constitution understood the necessity for American citizens to keep and bear arms. However, our society has been so influenced by authoritarian legislators and those on the left, that many Americans now believe that we should give up that right...Thus leaving ourselves, our homes, and even our loved-ones at the mercy of the criminals. You see, as with all laws, gun laws only affect the law-abiding.

In most states, one needs a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Once again, the only people who observe this restriction are law-abiding citizens, thus making this measure rather useless and even laughable.

Laws which prohibit law-abiding citizens from possessing and carrying firearms are certainly not lost on criminals. It is no coincidence that in the 32 years a handgun ownership ban was in place against the residents of the District of Columbia, the number of crimes to individuals (rape, robbery, murder, etc.) soared.

Criminals are keenly aware of the prospect of an armed citizen and will almost always steer clear of potential victims who may be armed.

In 1982, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia, passed an ordinance which required all heads of household to have at least one gun in the house. The burglary rate immediately dropped an astounding 89 percent. Ten years after the law was passed, the burglary rate was still 72 percent less than it was in 1981.

Of course, the need to defend one's self is not a new one. Nor is the notion of limiting the citizenry's right to do so.

Much has been said on the subject, even before guns were invented.

What follows is a small collection of what many of man's greatest minds have said on the right to possess arms:

-The Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero: “Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.”

-4th President of the United States, James Madison, while criticizing the governments of Europe: which “were afraid to trust the people with arms,” argued for “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over almost every other nation.”

-American statesmen, Richard Henry Lee: “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.”

-Writer, George Orwell: “Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.”

-Roy Innis, National Chairman Congress of Racial Equality: “To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.”

-35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy: “Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”

Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi: “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”

Even Jesus weighed in on the subject, in the Gospel of Luke (22:35-38): “When I sent you out barefoot without purse or pack, were you ever short of anything?...It is different now, whoever has a purse had better take it with him, and his pack too; and if he has no sword, let him sell his cloak to buy one.”

Since people have had the opportunity as well as the need to arm themselves, there have been those attempting to rob them of this right. It was as true in Colonial America, as it was in Hitler's Germany. In 1938, the Nazis enacted a gun-control act, which robbed not only Jews, but all citizens of the right to defend themselves.

In 1942, Adolf Hitler made the following statement: “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”

Near the end of World War II, the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto once remarked that the reason Japan never invaded the mainland of the United States was because “there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

Americans´ right to keep and bear arms has truly served us well.

It is also a well known fact that well armed citizens prevent crimes from occurring.

The fact is, the police cannot be everywhere at once, and if you choose NOT to arm yourself or your family, that is your decision, but make no mistake...the police will not be there to defend you, they will only be there to take a report after the tragedy has occurred.

However, remember the old adage: “It is better to be judged by twelve than carried by six!”

Read more on the subject of gun control:

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