Political Quotes

“The right to keep and bear arms for self-defense and to ensure we remain a free people is a God-given right, not a government-bestowed privilege. We are, however, privileged to live in a country whose Founders correctly and appropriately recognized this God-given right and codified it in the highest law of the land, the Constitution. The wording of the Second Amendment is assumptive in nature. The right to keep and bear arms is assumed to already exist, and our Founders merely provided legal clarity and protection that it not be infringed. Government officials who do right and follow the Constitution have nothing to fear from an armed citizenry. However, government officials who oppress their people and violate their Constitutional oath and the rights guaranteed by that Constitution for the people should rightly fear those people. As has been said: ``When people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.'' But this administration believes that the greatest threat to our country is its own people, its own citizens. This is what oppressive regimes say. This administration never misses an opportunity to attack the Second Amendment by seeking to tax and regulate away our constitutional rights. They have blamed law-abiding citizens and licensed firearms dealers for the recent surge in violent crime in Democrat-run cities. They have nominated a gun-grabbing radical named David Chipman to lead the ATF.…”