Firearms Refresher Course

[johnnierotten]

I hadn't seen that one in awhile ,Mitch.

[knifemaker3]

I believe in gun control.......I use both hands to aim instead of one!

[Owd Wullie]

Gun control is being able to hit your target.

None of my guns have accidentally killed anyone since they came into my possession.

Although I did hurt myself with that big old single shot target rifle a while back. It fell over from where it was leaning and landed on my foot.

The rifle wasn't hurt a bit, thank goodness.

[9ball]

Since this is a "Firearms Refresher Course", Let us look back in History at what it told and taught us;


"...he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." -- Jesus Christ, Luke 22:36

"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace." -- Jesus Christ, Luke 11:21

"The great object is, that every man be armed ... Every one who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -- Alexander Hamilton

" ... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -- Thomas Jefferson

"No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American." -- Tench Coxe, of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

"If the [political] opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves." -- Josef Stalin

"Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" -- Josef Stalin

"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough." -- Sarah Brady

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing." -- Adolph Hitler

"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." -- A.E. Van Vogt, "The Weapon Shops Of Isher", ASF December 1942

"Gun Control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters." -- Sammy "The Bull" Gravano

"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty." -- Vladimir Lenin

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." -- Vladimir Lenin

"Every good Communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. The Communist party must control the guns" -- Mao Tse Tung

"Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead." -- Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University

"I honestly think - and I am not an expert on the amendments - I think the only people in this nation who should be allowed to own guns are police officers. I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, 'Sorry. It is 1999, we have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison.'" -- Rosie O'Donnell

"We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand." -- A Japanese Admiral 15 years after VJ day on why Japan didn't invade the US mainland after Pearl Harbor.

"We need a federal law that bans all assault weapons, and if in fact you do need a handgun you should be subjected to at least the same restrictions -- and really stronger ones -- that exist for driving an automobile. The United States Congress needs to pass uniform licensing for everyone carrying a gun." -- New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, March 2, 1997

"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them -- Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in -- I would have done it." -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, on CBS "60 Minutes"

"We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of hand guns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal." -- Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, page 53.

"Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, April 5, 1996

"The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons - anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun - can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." -- Violence Policy Center, on how best to sell the ban on so-called "assault weapons".

"If you want assault rifles, join the army. We have lots of them." -- Gen. Wesley Clark, Democrat Presidential Primary, 2004

"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." -- Heinrich Himmler 1936


"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -- John F. Kennedy

"I say that the Second Amendment is, in order of importance, the first amendment. It is America's First Freedom, the one right that protects all the others. Among freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, of assembly, of redress of grievances, it is the first among equals. It alone offers the absolute capacity to live without fear. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that allows "rights" to exist at all. Either you believe that, or you don't, and you must decide." -- Charlton Heston, in a 1997 speech at the National Press Club

[treefarmer]

9Ball, Over the years I have probably read or heard most of the quotes you have compiled in your post . But to read them all at one time is a real "Refresher"!! Thank you for the effort! Tiny Tim said "God bless us everyone", I would like to say "God bless us everyone with common sense!" Treefarmer

[jerryd6818]

Thanks 9ball. Excellent, excellent post.

Unfortunately there are any number of people who will read that and all they will get from it is like Charlie Brown listening to an adult, blah, blah, blah, blah... Those people and everyone else, should get on their knees every night and thank God we have the 2nd Amendment and those who defend it. But they don't understand that and they can't be taught because they have a blockage in their brain.

[Owd Wullie]

The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their
possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types
of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the
collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dictator of Japan, August 1588

[carvin don]

Admiral Yamamoto: "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Advising Japan's military leaders of the futility of an invasion of the mainland United States because of the widespread availability of guns. It has been theorized that this was a major contributing factor in Japan's decision not to land on North America early in the war when they had vastly superior military strength. This delay gave our industrial infrastructure time to gear up for the conflict and was decisive in our later victory.

[tjmurphy]

We have the largest militia in the world. Larger than any regular army in the world. Our militia is what the rest of the world is afraid of, not our military.

[Owd Wullie]

We have the largest militia in the world. Larger than any regular army in the world. Our militia is what the rest of the world is afraid of, not our military.

Our militia is what the present government

is afraid of.

[MITCH RAPP]

[FRJ]

Check it out...... in Willies post......the guy in the middle, is that Moe? He sure looks like John McCain, no?

[Owd Wullie]

Check it out...... in Willies post......the guy in the middle, is that Moe? He sure looks like John McCain, no?

You are correct, Sir.

He is naught but a re-cycled gun grabbing democrat.

http://gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm

[FRJ]

Thanks, Willie. I put that interesting site on my favs.

[MITCH RAPP]

Check it out...... in Willies post......the guy in the middle, is that Moe? He sure looks like John McCain, no?

You are correct, Sir.

He is naught but a re-cycled gun grabbing democrat.

http://gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm