Gun Control Laws

             Well over 56 million innocent civilians have been murdered, and billions have been "neutralized" in fear of brutalization by their governments this last century as a result of "Gun Control" laws..
             Defend Liberty and the Constitution for the United States of America and the Second Article of Amendment!
             and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
             and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
             Then they came for the trade unionists
             and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a trade unionist.
             and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
             and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
             A pastor in the German Confessing Church
             Who spent from 1937 to 1945 in Sachsenhausen
             "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." -- Thomas Jefferson (1764) -- Quoting 18th Century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment
             The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states "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." For over a hundred years this has been interpreted to mean that everyone has the right to own a gun, but lately many people have come to believe that it means the right of the militia or military to bear arms. The Amendment is really saying two things at once. In the first part it talks about maintaining a militia to protect the freedom of the country, but that ha
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