Tuesday, July 5, 2011

There is No First Amendment Without a Second Amendment

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9865/pub_detail.asp

When we celebrate the Fourth of July, let’s keep in mind that the first Americans won their independence from England with the force of arms. It was, in fact, a British effort in 1775 to confiscate military arms they believed were stored in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts that sparked the war.

The Founding Fathers were so aware of the need for an armed citizenry that, after ensuring freedom of religion, speech, press and the right to peacefully assemble in the First Amendment, the Second guaranteed their right to bear arms.

Wherever authoritarian regimes were established in the last century, they took away this right and then proceeded to kill those deemed enemies of the state.


Read the rest of the article at the link

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9865/pub_detail.asp

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