02/18/2012
This is our official view on the right to bear arms: The right to bear arms was not given to you to protect your possessions, it was given to you to protect your rights. Here's the proof,
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."- Thomas Jefferson
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any body of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States."- Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principals of the Federal Constitution, 1787.
"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 then to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."- Thomas Jefferson, quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment", 1764
That's just a few quotes giving reason for our right to bear arms.
However our stance on violence is clear,"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."- Buddha
Feel free to comment even if its to prove us wrong.
-The Disciples of Freedom