Given the push in the UN by Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration I thought this old post from my Blog was timely...

What the Great Minds in History have said about “Gun Control”

As more and more the Far Left leads our Country towards Socialism I thought it might be appropriate for us to revisit what has been said by the Great Thinkers of our past with respect for our right to own and carry firearms. Posted below our quotes with respect to that issue:

Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Nov 11 1755, from the Pennsylvania Assembly’s reply to
the Governor of Pennsylvania.)

Thomas Jefferson: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither
inclined or determined to commit crimes. Such laws only make things worse for the assaulted and
better for the assassins; they serve to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (1764 Letter and speech from T.
Jefferson quoting with approval an essay by Cesare Beccari)

John Adams: “Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self
defense.” (A defense of the Constitution of the US)

George Washington: “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the
people’s liberty teeth (and) keystone… the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable… more than
99% of them [guns] by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very
atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference [crime]. When firearms go, all goes,
we need them every hour.” (Address to 1st session of Congress)

George Mason: “To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them.” (3 Elliot,
Debates at 380)

Noah Webster: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in
almost every country in Europe.” (1787, Pamphlets on the Constitution of the US)

George Washington: “A free people ought to be armed.” (Jan 14 1790, Boston Independent
Chronicle.)

Thomas Jefferson: “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” (T. Jefferson papers,
334, C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950)

James Madison: “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of
other countries, whose people are afraid to trust them with arms.” (Federalist Paper #46)

Given the actions of our leaders (in the White House and the Congress), I think we as Americans had better remember the words of these brilliant men. I would rather subscribe to their thoughts than to whatever comes out of the mouth of the likes of “Bobby Rush”, a Democrat from Illinois who gives us the “Blair Holt” Act. A Bill which seeks to create  a Federal Database and would require permission for citizens to own firearms. Mr. Rush who prior to Congress had ties to the Black Panther Party is not my preferred choice for leader. What do you think?