On a cold night of March 1692, all was quiet except the chilling moans escaping from a house belonging to the village minister, Samuel Parris, of Salem Village in Massachusetts. In a back room of the house, a nine-year-old girl clutched her throat and began spinning around as if in a trance. Elizabeth Parris then flung her frail body on the hard wood floor in a fit of passion. Another young girl, Elizabeth’s eleven-year-old cousin Abigail Williams, followed suit; and soon, both girls were screaming hysterically. They fought and clawed the air as if fighting against a supernatural beast. The floorboards beneath their small bodies creaked, and the noise echoed throughout the small house. Elizabeth’s father called for the village physician immediately. After much deliberation, the doctor pronounced that the girls were suffering from “bewitchment.” Soon, the two girls accused other villagers of witchcraft; and for the next several months, the small New England community was in an uproar.
From June through September of 1692, the Salem Witch Trials condemned hundreds of people as witches. The accused were men, women, and children and included people from surrounding neighborhoods. Once the fervor against the “witches” began, there was no end to the accusations. People from all levels of society were accused and tried as witches, including the Governor’s wife. At least nineteen condemned men and women died from hanging. Other witches either died in jail or lived the duration of their lives as social outcasts-always afraid of the authorities.
No one explanation provides the answer to why the Salem Witch Trials reached such a great height. Indeed, the Salem Witch Trials remain curious even today because of the magnitude of people who were accused, convicted, and executed for it. Historians have stated economic, social, and frontier troubles with Native Americans and petty jealousies as a few of the reasons why so many accusations arose. Whatever the cause(s), one thing is certain: many innocent people lost their lives because of the hysterics prompted at the behest of a few.
As with those hunting for witches in 1692, today, the liberals are also looking for “witches.” The unfortunate and inhumane killing of innocent children in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 has renewed the liberals’ taste for vengeance. Unfortunately, criminals are not the focus of their wrath, but it is the Bill of Rights. Liberals feel that the law needs to be “reformed.” Indeed, they would like to do away with the Bill of Rights completely if at all possible. They are not interested in finding true solutions that work to keep such tragedies from recurring; instead, their ultimate goal is the destruction of our liberties as American citizens. To achieve this goal, they have shamelessly used the tragedy of the Newtown shooting to promote their own political agenda: banishing the Second Amendment altogether. Their argument is that by banning guns, there will never be another tragedy in America.
Indeed, their argument would serve well if only it made any sense. In most states, law-abiding citizens who own guns must first pass a thorough background investigation and fingerprinting/ identification process before they can acquire any weapons. Some states require firearms safety training before they issue permits. Suffice it to say, those people who own guns legally must meet state standards (which differ widely by individual states) to own guns. For someone to go through the stringent process of becoming a gun owner only for the sake of going on a shooting spree seems illogical to say the least. Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule; but most law-abiding citizens are aware of the risk they take if they use their guns to hurt innocent people.
Typically, people who own guns legally do so for protection, recreation, or mere nostalgia. If anything, many of these law-abiding citizens have used their weapons to defend themselves and even protect others. A 2012 study performed by Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett for the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. shows several true examples of law-abiding citizens who used their guns for self-defense purposes.
The “right to bear arms” is a fundamental right given to every American citizen. George Washington once said: “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.” Yet, liberals have long forsaken Washington and are now working diligently to eradicate the Bill of Rights, too. Criminals will continue to find ways to get guns as they do even now with the current laws in place. If anything, by banning guns, the government will only further assist criminals in attacking innocent people who will have no way to protect themselves from the criminals’ dastardly deeds. Consider what a difference it would have made on September 11, 2001 if any American citizen on Flights American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93 had carried legally-obtained guns. What liberals don’t seem to understand is that those who want to commit a crime by definition are not law-abiding individuals to begin with. As such, to expect such people to honor “reformed” laws that ban guns altogether is foolhardy. The only thing these “reforms” will bring about is the further destruction of American society.
As with the Salem Witch Trials and September 11, 2001, the Newtown shooting has become an infamous part of American history. All of us will remember it forever. It is a disgrace for the liberals to suggest that only they feel the pain for the loss of those innocent lives. It is equally shameful for them to use the tragedy of the Newtown shooting as a way to punish law-abiding American citizens by eradicating our constitutional rights. Laws need to be “reformed”, but not to hurt those who abide by them. September 11, 2001 united all Americans regardless of their personal beliefs; should not the Newtown tragedy do the same?
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS THE CODE OF SILENCE
The police by LAW have no legal obligation, not liable to protect you (citation below). If the Second Amendment is invalidated this will leave everyone with only the police to protect them or will you just think they are?
The police have never been in the protection business. They are in the “responding to the scene of the crime” business.
Criminals will be embolden with a no citizen protection law and no guns.
The over worked under paid, already had enough of society police are NOT going to be of any help to you in a crime being perpetrated on you or when SHTF. The police are just people and can’t be everywhere all the time.
This is a video from the Sons of Liberty. It is a distributing video and shows how unrestrained the police are becoming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmGWLsn0iM
H. R. 648 This Act may be cited as the `Citizens’ Self-Defense Act of 2003′.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Police cannot protect, and are not legally liable for failing to protect, individual citizens, as evidenced by the following:
(A) The courts have consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals, only the public in general. For example, in Warren v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981), the court stated: `[C]ourts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.’.
(B) Former Florida Attorney General Jim Smith told Florida legislators that police responded to only 200,000 of 700,000 calls for help to Dade County authorities.
(C) The United States Department of Justice found that, in 1989, there were 168,881 crimes of violence for which police had not responded within 1 hour.
(2) Citizens frequently must use firearms to defend themselves, as evidenced by the following:
(A) Every year, more than 2,400,000 people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals–or more than 6,500 people a day. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.
(B) Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
(C) Of the 2,400,000 times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, 92 percent merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8 percent of the time, does a citizen kill or wound his or her attacker.
http://constitution.org/legis/03hr0648.htm
But as Usual, the Liberals and their Media Clowns will just Impose, Or attempt to Impose More Tyrannical Laws instead of Imposing Real Solutions to the Problem!! How is it possible that WE THE PEOPLE put such Ignorant Fools in Office to SERVE US?? These people are the quintessential Morons we should have put under Psychological Observation as a Child, not allowed them to get into Politics!!!
Because people will believe any BS that sounds the best. The mouth with the best talking ability will get the votes. And if they don`t there is alway`s fraud to put them over the top just like the Boon.
The 2013 witch hunt should start at the white house and then go to congress and the Senate – there are far too many witches that are demonizing this country and they are all in Washington led by the head “witch/wizard” the ayatollah barack. WE THE PEOPLE are getting more and more deeper into the quagmire started and encouraged by the witches in Washington. get rid of them STAT.
THEY HAVE THEIR EYES ON HILLARY AND DON’T WANT TO TO TALK BUT THIS IS OUT ALREADY !!!
It’s even worse that we previously thought. A retired four-star admiral is now claiming that Barack Obama intentionally conspired with America’s enemies to stage a bogus attack and the kidnapping of an American ambassador so he could “negotiate” the release of a “hostage” and bolster his mediocre approval ratings just prior to the election?
The Washington Examiner, quoting retired Four-Star Admiral James Lyons, writes: “[T]he attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi… was the result of a bungled abduction attempt…. the first stage of an international prisoner exchange… [that] would have ensured the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the ‘Blind Sheik’…”
But something went horribly wrong with Obama’s “October Surprise.” Although the Obama Regime intentionally gutted security at the consulate prior to the staged kidnapping, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty disobeyed direct orders to stand down, saved American lives, single-handedly killed scores of attackers…and the attackers, believing that the Obama Regime had betrayed them, tortured Ambassador Chris Stevens and dragged his body through the streets.
The pig cops do not serve and protect. They have become the United States gestapo and do whatever they want. I don’t go to pig cops for help. If I see one, I go the other way. Most of them are so FAT they can’t run so they use their taser and mase. If that doesn’t work out comes the gun. I teach my children NOT to trust anyone especially the pig cops. I can count one one hand the good ones.
A rather despicable post.
Why?