Issue Position: Second Amendment

Issue Position

Our current president and his party are working diligently to take away our second amendment rights! Outlawing guns will not fix crime! Evaluate the facts, the States and Cities with the strictest gun laws have much higher crime rates. Chicago, IL in 2012 has some of the strictest guns law in the US and has almost four times the number of homicides as Houston, TX. Chicago-Population of 2.7 million w/ 806 Homicides , Houston- Population of 2.15 million w/207 homicides. Homicides per 100k -Chicago 28.4 & Houston 9.6. Our Founding Fathers had the wisdom to know that second amendment was not only to protect of ourselves, but more importantly to protect of the ourselves from the government.

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791.

A couple of quotes we can include thru out the webiste;

"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

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

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment
during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."

-Thomas Jefferson

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