The 2nd Amendment
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.
the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
George Washington
“Private citizens don’t need firearms to protect themselves because the police will protect them.” That is the basic rationale behind all so-called “gun control”. In his frightening article published in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty (April 2000) entitled Just Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection, Richard W. Stevens explains the danger behind this statement.
Did you know that the police have no obligation to protect you as an individual? They do not even have to come when you call 911! In most states, neither the government nor the police have a legal duty to protect individual citizens from crime. Instead, they rely on something called, misleadingly enough, the “public duty” doctrine. That doctrine states that police owe a duty to protect the public in general, but not to protect any particular individual.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference—they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.
George Washington
As Mr. Stevens says in his article, “The general rule of law in the United States is that government owes a duty to protect the public in general, but owes no legal duty to protect any particular person from criminal attack. Neither the U.S. Constitution nor the federal civil rights laws require states to protect citizens from crime. As a federal appeals court bluntly put it, ordinary citizens have “no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.”
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
The police cannot possibly be in every place at every time a crime will be committed. As stated in the Constitution, the people have the right to bear arms and that right shall not be infringed by the government. We the People have the Constitutional right to have firearms and to use them in protection of our lives, the lives of our families and others, and our property.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
The NRA believes America’s laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Ronald Reagan
Protection of our Constitutional liberties does not stop with the First Amendment. The right to keep and bear arms was seen by our Founding Fathers as second only in importance to the rights in the First Amendment—freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, of peaceable assembly, and of petition for redress of grievances.