Gun control Original oratory
“No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.”– James Burgh. This quote demonstrates why we should work to work to prevent gun control legislature from passing. Some say that we should embrace gun control in order to protect our self with safe submission. However, we should oppose gun control for 3 reasons. These reasons are that Guns are essential to self-defense, they are essential to national defense, and they are essential to preventing tyranny
The first reason for this is that Guns are essential to self-defense. Every year, guns are used over 80x more often to protect a life than to take one! (Vici media).With just one …show more content…
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. As stated In the Second amendment. This quote is our right to bear arms. This is not because we are to be able to hunt but rather to protect ourselves from our enemies foreign or otherwise. Another quote which is commonly attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto states "You cannot invade the mainland United States. As there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." This is the point of the second amendment. The United States is virtually unassailable due to the fact that its military power is not solely restricted to its own army but it also includes a large portion of its citizens as well due to the sheer firepower within the country. It’s for these reason that firearms are essential to national …show more content…
as Mao Tse Tung once said" All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." (buckeye firearms)This statement demonstrates how those who control a nation without regard to their citizens feel about weapons. They fear them as they are the one thing which could hope to usurp them. Another quote by the more well-known Adolf Hitler states "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." (buckeye firearms) Thus, he demonstrates that an armed populace is the only way to provide balance against a corrupt government. In order to prevent a corrupt government from using force to strip away the rights of the people, the people themselves must be able to oppose the corrupt government themselves. For this reason, guns are essential to preventing
“No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.”– James Burgh. This quote demonstrates why we should work to work to prevent gun control legislature from passing. Some say that we should embrace gun control in order to protect our self with safe submission. However, we should oppose gun control for 3 reasons. These reasons are that Guns are essential to self-defense, they are essential to national defense, and they are essential to preventing tyranny
The first reason for this is that Guns are essential to self-defense. Every year, guns are used over 80x more often to protect a life than to take one! (Vici media).With just one …show more content…
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. As stated In the Second amendment. This quote is our right to bear arms. This is not because we are to be able to hunt but rather to protect ourselves from our enemies foreign or otherwise. Another quote which is commonly attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto states "You cannot invade the mainland United States. As there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." This is the point of the second amendment. The United States is virtually unassailable due to the fact that its military power is not solely restricted to its own army but it also includes a large portion of its citizens as well due to the sheer firepower within the country. It’s for these reason that firearms are essential to national …show more content…
as Mao Tse Tung once said" All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." (buckeye firearms)This statement demonstrates how those who control a nation without regard to their citizens feel about weapons. They fear them as they are the one thing which could hope to usurp them. Another quote by the more well-known Adolf Hitler states "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." (buckeye firearms) Thus, he demonstrates that an armed populace is the only way to provide balance against a corrupt government. In order to prevent a corrupt government from using force to strip away the rights of the people, the people themselves must be able to oppose the corrupt government themselves. For this reason, guns are essential to preventing