Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Gutfeld: Piers Morgan needs to get over his gun obsession" video.

  1. That is a lie. Evidently, you have never read the Federalist Papers, nor the writing of Thomas Jefferson.
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  2. Ken Tell another lie, as I have read the entirety. Firearms were for protecting the US from invasion, and to protect the people from a tyrannical government. “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”– Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…”– George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790 “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”– Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776 “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”– Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787 “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.”– Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787 “The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They 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 than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”– Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776 ” The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.”– Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”– Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 “To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”– George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788 “I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”– George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788 “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.”– Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787 “Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”– James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788 “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”– James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789 “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms…  “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”– Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788 “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”– Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778 “This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty…. The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”– St. George Tucker, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803 “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves.”– Thomas Paine, “Thoughts on Defensive War” in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775 I can continue with many more quotes. Your leftist views do not hold water, and leak like a sieve.
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  3. Ken Worked up? No, I'm having a laugh, because you're calling an AR-15 an assault rifle, when it is none the such. It is a civilian semi-automatic rifle. Because it cosmetically looks different than other semi-autos, does not make it an assault rifle. I would know, since I was a gunsmith for 30 years before I retired. Words like high-capacity, assault rifle, etc., are all words used by the liberal left to make their attack against the 2nd Amendment, scare tactics, and to use them to ban other semi-auto guns, which they have already tried several times in the past. This comes from the uneducated liberal congress, who's job has been to do away with the 2nd Amendment since Regan was elected. The Democrats, before 1980, were at least somewhat educated and sensible people, but today, several congresswomen, and men, who have no idea about what they speak, wish to disarm a nation, using lies and misinformation, to force their views on the citizens of the US. I could name and quote several, (especially those from California), including the current president, and the one who is now running on the Democrat ticket.
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  4. You're very correct. The Federalist Papers, the writing of Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and several others state that very thing.
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  5. Ken I see that you do not know what an assault weapon is either. An assault weapon is a military, fully automatic, weapon, not the civilian semi-auto version of the AR-15. That version is no different than a semi-auto hunting rifle, only in looks. What are you saying, that a civilian semi-auto AR-15 scares people to death? I hate to burst your bubble, but many hunting rifles, that hold 10 round magazines, can be reloaded just as fast as an AR-15. That is a fallacy being claimed by the left and the media. If the government would actually prosecute the criminals they arrest, instead of letting them walk, we would not have the problems we do now. That has been stated by the FBI, and their statistics show that violent crime has actually dropped over the past 20 years, as more people have armed themselves. The ones that make the national media, today, have been Islamic extremists. They don't dare report the many lives that have been saved with firearms, only local media carries that. Here is one case in point. A Chicago journalist, Neil Steinberg, thought that he would go into a gun store and purchase an AR-15, to show how easily it was done, and happily report it. NICS flagged his name, and the store owner would not allow the man to buy it, over having been charged with domestic violence. The media is antri-gun, period, and they have been spreading many lies about the matter.
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  6. Morgan is a name to be laughed at in polite company. He supports true Leninism, especially the history where the Russians took all the arms from the citizens after the Bolsheviks took power. He is as far left and red as they come. I wonder what Morgan stated after a British soldier was killed by a knife wielding terrorist, because that soldier was not allowed to carry a sidearm in his own country?
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