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NRAPatriot "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

"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."
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

"We've Given them a Republic, Lets See If They Can Keep It!"
Benjamin Franklin

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Your right to own firearms may someday be a distant memory. Think not? Look what has already been done to restrict guns. It's time to make a stand for freedom, for the Constitution as it was written, not as it is being rewritten. The Second Amendment is the right of the people to keep and bear arms, not the right of the Government to allow or disallow the citizenry with regard to the issue. Nobody wants anyone to be injured or killed from the misuse of a firearm, however misuse and accidents do happen. It is simply unrealistic to believe the Government can legislate an accident free world. What does the Government do about automobiles, airplanes, boats, swimming pools, motorcycles, knives, bicycles, sticks and stones,etc.,etc.
If you agree or disagree, continue on and vote in the polls . Click on the images around the polls for interesting facts and statistics from the American Revolution through the Gulf War.

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity"
-Sigmund Freud , "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis"

The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press." ---- Thomas Jefferson

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams

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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" ---- Patrick Henry

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Aristotle, "Politics"

"If a gun bill will pass because of the politics of the situation, you must see to it that its burdens are imposed upon a man because of a criminal background and not because he is an ordinary citizen and perhaps poor."
Gen. James H. Doolittle

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." ---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it."---- Woodrow Wilson

"Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense... "
John Adams

"... Let us then enunciate the functions of a state and we shall easily elicit what we want: First there must be food; secondly, arts for life requires many instruments; thirdly, there must be arms, for the members of a community have need of them, and in their own hands, too, in order to maintain authority both against disobedient subjects and against external assailants ..."
Aristotle, "Politics"

"What the subcommittee on the Constitution uncovered was clear -- and long-lost proof that the Second Amendment to our Constitution was intended as an individual right of the American citizen to keep and carry arms in a peaceful manner, for the protection of himself, his family, and his freedom." ---- Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Preface, "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms"

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." ---- Thomas Jefferson

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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." ---- John F. Kennedy

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Daniel Webster

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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." -- Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." ---- Senator Hubert H. Humprey (D-Minnesota)

"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them."
Walter Mondale

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." ---- Mahatma Ghandi

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form. ---- Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988

"Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!" .... Sir Winston Churchill

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"I am pleased to accept Life Membership in the National Rifle Association and extend to your organization every good wish for continued success." ---- John F. Kennedy, March 20, 1961

The NRA's 3 rules of gun safety are: 1) Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction (whether loaded or unloaded).... 2) Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.... 3) Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to shoot....

Washington D.C. enacted a virtual ban on handguns in 1976. Between 1976 and 1991, Washington D.C.'s homicide rate rose 200%, while the U.S. rate rose 12%.

John Lott's crime study found that states which adopted concealed carry laws saw an 84% decrease in the number of multiple victim public shootings, resulting in a 90% decline in deaths arising from such instances.

WE WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS

"[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." - President Bill Clinton

"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." .... President Bill Clinton

"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns." ---- Senator Howard Metzenbaum

"Guns don't kill people; bullets do. It is time the federal government began taxing handgun ammunition used in crime out of existence." ---- Sen. D. P. Moynihan

"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come." ---- U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden

Gun registration is not enough." ---- Janet Reno (Former Attorney General)

"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe." ----U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein

"We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!" ------ Rep. Charles Schumer

"You know I don't believe in people owning guns, only the police and military. And I'm going to do everything I can to disarm this state." ---- Michael Dukakis

"By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia', the 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important." ---- Senator John F. Kennedy, April 1960

"Gun control has cleared the way for seven major genocides since 1915, in which governments gone bad murdered 56,000,000 persons, including millions of children."---- Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Between implementation of the Brady Bill in March 1994 and year end 1997, there have been 242,000 background checks that have denied prospective purchasers permission to buy a handgun from licensed gun dealers. Out of these, 9 people have been convicted of illegal attempts to buy handguns.

In the early 1990's, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reported that 7% of armed career criminals obtain firearms from licensed gun shops.

"FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS"

Charlton Heston-NRA President

And the millions of Americans who support and defend the right of the people to keep and bear arms.