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    New York Counties Opposed to NYSAFE Anti Second Amendment Act

    http://scopeny.org/Counties_oppose_NYSAFE.html




    All but two Upstate Counties [Albany, Cortland areas] have passed resolutions opposing the SAFE Act.


    A Short Analysis of the Second Amendment

    The fourth article of the Bill of Rights was adopted as the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and reads as follows:

    “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.”

    The founding fathers were highly educated intellectuals who chose each word in the American Constitution with deliberate intent. An examination of the wording used in the second amendment will help elucidate the original meaning of this important text:

    During 18th century colonial America, the words ‘well regulated’ were used to describe something that functioned properly, and a well regulated militia implies a well trained or well disciplined militia. Members of a militia were responsible for ensuring that they, and their arms, meet a minimal standard. The use of the word ‘regulated’ in the bill of rights does not imply government regulation; indeed the inclusion of the term regulated is often erroroneously or maliciously cited as a mandate for government regulation where no such intention exists.

    A militia is a military force composed of ordinary able-bodied citizens that provide defense in order to protect a community, its territory, property, and laws. Members of a militia are responsible for supplying their own arms. As defined in Section
    311 of the United States Code, Title 10, Militia; Composition and Classes: The unorganized militia consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

    “A militia, when properly formed, is in fact the people
    themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms.”

    --Richard Henry Lee, Sixth President of the Continental
    Congress, 1788.

    The inclusion of the words ‘free state’ warrants consideration. Since a state is a political organization of people, a free state implies a political organization of free people - whose liberties, by definition, are minimally constrained by government regulation.
    In the American Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson explicitly cites the philosophical axiom of natural rights: “... all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Natural rights are the rights of the individual and are inherent in the human condition. They are not granted, and cannot be guaranteed, by any government. Recognizing, however, that it is also the nature of humankind to deny others their liberty, he adds: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” And so it
    was declared that the sovereign power of the United States is the People, and it is the will of the people that secure these rights.

    We can remove any further ambiguity as to whose rights (the government or the individual) are protected by the second amendment by means of three logical arguments.
    First: the primary text of the Constitution does not state that the ownership of arms is solely the purview of the government as written in article one, section eight, clauses fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen (the text of the constitution that denotes the federal government’s authority to provide, maintain, and regulate a military force); and neither does it explicitly restrict the rights of the people to keep and bear arms.


    Second: the right to keep and bear arms is included in the Bill of Rights; a document devised to limit the powers of the federal government and to protect and enumerate the rights of citizens.

    Third: the authors of the article explicitly state that the right to keep and bear arms is a right of the people.
    The words to ‘keep and bear’ mean to “own and carry”. Unmistakably, the authors recognized that such arms were the private property of free individuals who may carry them upon their person to facilitate the right of self-defense.

    Lastly, the word infringe originates from the Latin verb:
    frangere, meaning to break or destroy. It was the intent of the authors that these rights be indestructible.

    Conclusion: The original intent of the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States recognizes the innate and individual right of American citizens to keep and bear arms, and this right is inviolable.

    And what county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.. -

    Thomas Jefferson, 1787
    Last edited by presence; 09-01-2014 at 11:34 AM.

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    ...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...




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    You could have everyone except for those in NYC and Long Island against it and it wouldn't make a difference. There just not enough voters to make the change even if they were all willing to.



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    why did all those idiots decide to build the biggest city in the country, on a little island, and live on it?
    Oh wait... I answered it with my own question "idiots"
    "Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory,
    there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me.
    Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox
    with my brave men, my sword in my right hand."
    - Robert E. Lee to Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale (D-Texas), 1870



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