A Few Shots From The "Tommy Gun"

We are constantly presented with revisionist thinking from politicians and the courts.  They often say that the constitution needs changing to meet the needs of our modern civilization.  They say they are just putting themselves in the minds of the founders when they try to make these “adjustments.”  So, let’s just put ourselves in the mind of the founders for a minute.

I Think This Day I Would Like To Let Thomas Jefferson Speak For Me:

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.


I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

 I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.



When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.