right to keep and bear arms (RKBA)


You can and should protect yourself - with firearms, if necessary:

Crime Statistics Clock - Shows crimes to-date. Includes defensive / protective use of guns by law abiding citizens.


They finally admit it!:

2 October 2003 - Impact of Gun Control Laws Questioned, Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press/Yahoo News


...and who opposes it:

4 November 2002 - Bellesiles Resigns, Gun Book Disgraced – But Still In Print, by Sam Francis, Vdare.com
5 August 2002 - No Peace For Gun Owners, by Michael Powers, Strike the Root.com
3 August 2002 - Echoes of "Fahrenheit 451" Haunt England, by Dr. Michael S. Brown, Keep and Bear Arms.com
18 June 2002 - How Americans Have Changed, by Joe Sobran

In Federalist No. 29 Hamilton used the phrase "a well regulated militia," which would be included in the Second Amendment. One purpose of the state militias, and of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms," was to enable the states to resist tyranny -- Federal tyranny.

 

prominent New England federalist and founding father Noah Webster wrote in 1787:

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. [But] the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States"


...and the President

17 April 2003 - Upset gun owners set to dump Bush; Shooters angered with White House support for firearm ban, by Jon Dougherty, WorldNetDaily


Looks like we have to fight them off in every town

18 February 2003 - Official fights gun ban proposal School board wants firearms ordinance expanded, by Sydney B. Leavens, Concord Monitor


How about the right to keep and play with toy guns?:

13 August 2002 - Tighter airport security targets toys, Stevens Point Journal
5 August 2002 - Soldier toy disarmed at airport, BBC News
4 August 2002 - Village People imitator gun arrest, BBC News


Other arms articles of interest:

18 August 2002 - Feds arrest Canadian owner of NM weapons training school, CNN.com
14 August 2002 - Light, mobile weapons win over lumbering tanks, by LANCE GAY, Scripps Howard News Service
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