Freedom to Bear Arms

Here is an excellent video on The Battle of Athens, Tennessee in 1946.  I would like to thank Gorges Smythe for bringing this to my attention.

The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

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"Remembering the words of Nehemiah the Prophet: 'The trowel in hand and the gun rather loose in the holster.'"

--T.S. Eliot

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"I have a very strict gun control policy:  if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

--Clint Eastwood

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"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized
nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our
police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the
future." 

--Adolf Hitler, 1935

Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Constituting America
A Revolutionary People at War
You Could Hear a Pin Drop
Gun Control--or People Control?
Every one of the mass murderers was a Democrat
Black conservative leaders discus how the NRA was created to protect freed slaves
Molon Labe
Esther and the Second Amendment
A Dream about Donald Trump
Some Gun Control History

Perfect for a trench raid

Live Free or Die

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"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us."

--Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”

--George Washington

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One is by the sword.  The other is by debt."

--John Adams