Gun Control: A Failed American Experiment (The United States has had gun control from

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Gun Control: A Failed American Experiment (The United States has had gun control from its founding)​

By Timothy Birdnow
01/26/2013

Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2013 1101 AM by SeekAndFind

The United States has had gun control from its founding. And the results have been dreadful. Constitutional attorney Edwin Viera Jr.points out that: Georgia's Slavery Act of 1765, for example, explained itself on the rather blatant theory of legalistic oppression that

"Slavery has been introduced and allowed in His Majesty's Colonies in America and * * * Power over such Slaves ought to be settled and limited by positive Laws, so that the Slaves may be kept in due Subjection and Obedience * * * [.][5]"

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Georgia was hardly alone in this, and the pre-colonial powers were fully aware of the need to disarm slaves. The French Black Code of 1751 banned the possession of weapons by slaves in Louisiana, for instance, authorizing the offending slave be shot on sight.In Virginia Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 led to strict gun control laws for slaves and even for free blacks. Tennessee changed its constitution in 1834 limiting the right to keep and bear arms to whites only

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Similar restrictions were put in place over both slave and freedman in Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere.

So why did slavery flourish in the United States? One reason undoubtedly is because the slaves were denied the tools to resist.

John Lott made that very point to the horror of Soledad O'Brien on CNN.

And life as a freedman was perilous, thanks in no small part to the ban on gun ownership by free blacks in many states. Often freedmen were seized by bounty hunters or unscrupulous slaveholders as runaways, and without a means to resist, the free blacks were powerless to stop it.

It is no coincidence that the places with the strictest gun laws today are often the places with the highest crime rates

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In the end, the Founding Fathers understood the importance of arming the citizenry as both a deterrent to crime and a deterrent to tyranny. The citizens should be able to run a political system that has turned monstrous out by force. The Left instinctively understands this, and so want to disarm the citizenry, figuring that at best weapons that citizens will get will be homemade or none at all. They hope to place us in the position of the slaves and black freedmen, who simply were not capable of resisting.

Considering that the Department of Homeland Security has over 1.2 billion rounds of hollow point bullets depriving Americans of a few Saturday Night Specials seems a bit unfair. But then, nobody ever accused the Left of playing nice.


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[Wehrwolfen]

Have all the Draconian, unconstitutional laws imposed upon the people of Chicago or Washington D.C. reduced the number of murders through the years? No.....

 

[PredFan]

I hold those truths to be self-evident.

 

[NYcarbineer]

If you believe that gun control is a failed experiment, then you believe the experiment should be ended.

That would mean:

1. machine guns would be back in the general market, readily available at places like Walmart.

2. background checks would end, so every convicted felon, every person with a mental illness background, every gangbanger, every schoolkid

could walk into Walmart and buy one, no questions asked, as if he were buying a pair of shoes.

That is what you want. That is what makes you insane.

 

[PaulS1950]

New York City is a place where any criminal can get any gun they want but where the citizens have to wait for how many weeks to get a permit to purchase a weapon? Then the citizen goes through another background check when the purchase is made. Then they can transport the unloaded gun home and it must stay in the home. Do you also need a permit to get ammunition for the gun?
That doesn't sound like it violates the rights guaranteed by the second amendment to me...
"in a pigs eye."