Birthplace of the Second Amendment 1765: The Second Amendment: A Legacy to Our Children

Sunday, October 2, 2011

The Second Amendment: A Legacy to Our Children

BY da Tagliare

There is a war raging right now in the United States concerning the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Our socialistic leaders are pushing harder and harder to outlaw all possession of all firearms by private citizens.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is even using the United Nations and their Small Arms Treaty to supersede the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. President Obama has also been outspoken about his desire to see stricter nationwide gun control laws passed supposedly to help prevent crime and we all know what a crock of manure that argument is.

In addition to writing your congressmen and senators and contributing to gun lobby groups such as the NRA, one of the other things you can do to help support the Second Amendment is to teach your children and grandchildren to shoot and respect a gun. Start them as young as possible.
My dad started teaching me how to shoot at the age of four. He had an over-under .22 rifle on top and 410 shotgun on bottom. I was too small to hold the rifle, so my dad would cradle the front grip in his hand as I learned to aim and shoot. He also started teaching me how to clean and care for the gun. I was taught how dangerous they were and that I was never to play with one. He taught all of the gun safety rules. By the time I was six, I was using both the .22 and 410 to hunt rabbits, squirrels and birds.

I grew up with a healthy knowledge and respect for guns of all types. We always had loaded guns in the house and us kids knew where they were in case we needed one in an emergency. They were not kept locked up and we knew better to ever touch them without permission.

By the time I was twelve, I was hunting deer and other big game. I knew how to take a rifle and shotgun apart, clean it and reassemble it. I even started making wooden stocks for rifles and shotguns and later on handgrips for pistols. When I was in high school, I joined an Explorer post that specialized in guns. We had a shooting team for competition and paid for all of our ammunition and supplies by repairing guns.

Parents and grandparents need to take time to learn about their own guns. Then they need to teach their kids and grandkids about them. Teach them how to shoot and clean for a gun. Teach them to have respect for guns and not to fear them, but also to know how dangerous they can be and that they are never anything to play with.

If you are unable to teach them yourself, then check into local organization and groups that can. Here is a list of some that may be in your area:

Boy Scouts & Explorers – Not all, but many troops and posts teach shooting as part of the shooting merit badge.

4-H organizations – A number of 4-H groups teach shooting and even have teams for competition Each year the national 4-H hosts an invitational competition in all kinds of target shooting including archery, air rifles, pistols, rifles, shotguns, skeet, sporting clay target and more. http://www.4-hshootingsports.org/

Scholastic Clay Target Program – This program is designed to teach kids up to 12th grade how to shoot clay target, skeet and trap shooting. http://www.shootsctp.org/

Amateur Trapshooting Association – Has a program called Academic, Integrity Marksmanship (AIM) designed for kids from elementary school up through 12th grade. http://www.shootata.com/aim/aim4ata.html

Steel Challenge Shooting Association – Has a program called Scholastic Steel Challenge for ages 12-20 to teach and compete in matches modeled after the famous Steel Challenge. http://www.scholasticsteelchallenge.com/

National Rifle Association – Has a program called Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program designed to teach kids from pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade how to handle guns and what to do if they find a gun. http://www.nrahq.org/safety/eddie/

Years ago, many National Guard Armories taught gun safety classes and many state game and fish agencies also have some type of hunter safety program where they teach kids how to shoot and handle a firearm.

Generally it is those individuals that were not taught how to shoot and care for a gun when they were kids that are against guns and pushing for stricter gun control laws. The more kids that are taught how to shoot and how to respect a firearm, the more support there will be for the Second Amendment by that generation and the less support there will be to ban them.

From godfatherpolitics.com/category/2nd-amendment/

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It All Started Here . . .

Frontier Mercersburg in 1765 was the "birthplace" of the right we now refer to as "the Second Amendment", or, "the right to bear arms". It was here that individuals for the first time, some would say divinely, embraced the link between "Life and Liberty". . . and struck the first blow for Freedom.

Historically the right to bear arms goes back even before our founding as a nation to the Glorious Revolution of 1689 when William III agreed to the English Bill of Rights. If one can look at revolution like a volcanic eruption in nature, you understand that often from the destruction come the seeds of new human values and beliefs. In this case the independence of the human spirit, the right to know God for oneself, and to trust your conscience was hard won in this revolution of the human soul.

One crucible begets the necessity for another and on the frontier in America the right to defend ones religious beliefs was becoming the right to participate in the decisions of government that impact my "self". Freedom of the soul was becoming freedom of the heart and mind. Smith's Rebellion began as an act they justified under the rubric of defending oneself because government had failed in its obligation to protect Life, Liberty and Property. This was the first assertion of this principle aimed directly at British Military Authority as well as the incompetent government of John Penn - anywhere in the colonies.

In the end, Smith's Rebellion was the first armed resistance against British Military Rule leading up to the American Revolution. It was the first American triumph over the best military force in the world. It was the first time upon defending oneself that Americans had proclaimed we can rule ourselves.

It would be ten years before the battles at Lexington and Concord.

...Let Them Take Arms

The "Right to Bear Arms" . . .or 2nd Amendment is one of the most discussed and contentious of all the amendments of the Bill of Rights. It is, in fact, the only amendment that contains not only the seeds but the actual instruments of the revolution itself. Further, it gives real affirmation to Thomas Jefferson's quote . . .
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

It is for this reason, if no other, that the Government and its functionaries vociferously assail and obfuscate the text of this simple assertion. More, it is for this reason, and in the face of the perennial onslaught that its defense and affirmation is essential to the survival of the republic.

Frontier Mercersburg & The Justice William Smith House

The frontier town of Mercersburg, PA. in the 1760's, although typical of many settlements along the Appalachian Mountains played a pivotal role in the creation of what was to become the "Bill of Rights".

Frontiersmen like James Smith and the Black Boys, many of whom were inhabitants of the Mercersburg environs, were early participants in a series of conflicts with the British government that established principles the eventually lead to the inclusion of the "right to bear arms" in the Bill of Rights.

Much of the focus, centers on the domicile (and likely place of business) of Justice William Smith.

Birthplace of the Second Amendment 1765

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The Second Amendment: A Legacy to Our Children

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