Birthplace of the Second Amendment 1765: Gun Control Democrats Hide Gun Control Behind the 2nd Amendment

Friday, February 8, 2013

Gun Control Democrats Hide Gun Control Behind the 2nd Amendment

By Evan McMorris-Santoro - 2/7/2013

Members of the House Democratic gun violence task force put a heavy emphasis on the Second Amendment when they rolled out their policy recommendations Thursday. From speaking directly hunters to telling a personal story of a family defended from roving bands of racist thugs, Democrats praised the right to posses firearms and promised they’re not ever going to touch it as they work to reduce gun violence after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre.
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), the leader of the task force, spoke of his own hunting hobby (he hunts ducks.) The first bullet point in the task force’s list of recommendations was “Support the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.” Lest any critics wonder what that means, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) told the story of a Civil Rights leader who, Clyburn said, made it through the movement thanks to his right to own a gun.

Clyburn told the story of the Rev. J. Armstrong DeLaine, an early figure in the push that eventually ended in the integration of public schools. DeLaine lived and worked near Summerton, S.C.

“Because of his Second Amendment rights, the right to bear arms, he had a firearm. And it’s the only reason, when the Night Riders came to his home, it is the only reason that he lived to die a natural death,” Clyburn said. “I continue to believe that it’s important for people to have the right to bear arms. That is not what this issue is about. This issue is about our children being safe in their classrooms and our families being secure in their homes.”

Thompson said his task force’s recommendations were “fairly close” to the those of the gun violence task force led by Vice President Biden. And it appears the sales job will be very similar as well with Democrats trying again and again to reassure gun rights advocates they’re not after the public’s guns or the right to own one. Polling has shown widespread support for Democratic plans like universal background checks and magazine capacity bans, but leaders of the National Rifle Association have said they don’t take Democrats at their word on the Second 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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Gun Control Democrats Hide Gun Control Behind the 2nd Amendment

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