Joseph E. Olson wrote:
>
> *An Interesting Rant From A Liberal:* …Probably the most common
> argument supporting the Second Amendment is that we should be allowed
> to hunt…The other big one is the argument that we need guns to protect
> our homes from the occasional burglar…So why keep them? If we look to
> our constitutional history, the answer is much more obvious than
> hunting, tradition and domestic protection. Like everything in the
> Bill of Rights, it is a safeguard against only one entity: the
> government. For me, this is the only even remotely logical reason to
> keep deadly weapons on the streets. It is important, to protect us
> from tyranny, that the politicians know their citizens are armed…
>
> http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/16/Opinion/Protect.Gun.Rights.But.Not.For.The.Reasons.You.Expect-3034534.shtml
>
A similar rant from one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate
of his era:
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any
government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the
citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should
not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should
not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms
is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in
America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
I believe, from a speech at the NRA convention in 1959 or 1960... before
the Democratic Party gave up their guns. To sum it up in three words,
"balance of power."
Joe W
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