Constitution of the State of California
We the
people of California, grateful to Almighty; God for our freedom:
in order to secure its blessings, do establish this Constitution.
Article I: Declaration of Rights
Sec. 1.
All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty: acquiring, possessing and protecting property: and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness, and privacy.
THIS PROPERTY AIDS IN SECURING THOSE UNALIENABLE RIGHTS
If that dude was runnin at that chick because he
wanted to rape her, would she like to have a gun at that moment so she
could use it to level the playing field?
WHY THE GUN IN CIVILIZATION
"An armed
society is a polite society."
Maj. L. Caudill USMC
(Ret)
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- STAND YOUR
GROUND DOCTRINE -
- CASTLE DOCTRINE-
- DEFEND UNALIENABLE RIGHTS DOCTRINE -
- PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES DOCTRINE -
"The
right of personal liberty is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed
to every citizen, and any unlawful interference with it may be
resisted. Every person has a right to resist an unlawful arrest;
and, in preventing such illegal restraint of his liberty, he may use
such force as may be necessary."
City of Monroe v. Ducas, 203 La. 971, 979, 14 So.2d 781, 784 (1943).
See also Lyons v. Carroll, 107 La. 471, 31 So. 760 (1902).
"Que mad moeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.")
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC - 65 AD)
"Germans who
wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens
don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state."
Heinrich Himmler
"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!"
Adolph Hitler 1935 'Berlin Daily' (Loose English Translation) April
15th, 1935 Page 3, Article 2, by Einleitung Von Eberhard Beckmann
"Abschied vom Hessenland!"
"All
military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ...
The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every responsible opportunity of
campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to
one of the above-named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless
keeps his weapon, must be regarded as an enemy of the national
government."
SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
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"The strongest reason for
people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
President Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States)
assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise
it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times
armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of
religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."
Thomas Jefferson
"And what country can preserve it's liberties, if it's 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
"No free men shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Papers
"If the representatives of the
people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in
the exertion of that original right of self-defense..."
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, No. 28
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..."
Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Member of the First U.S. Senate.
"That the said Constitution
shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just
liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the
people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping
their own arms..."
Samuel Adams, Debates and
Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at
86-87 (Peirce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850. 2, col. 2.
"The very atmosphere of firearms
anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a
place of honor with all that is good."
George Washington
“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
"The right of the citizens to keep
and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the
liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against
usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if
these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist
and triumph over them."
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
"If cowardly and dishonorable men
sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be
prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general
deprivation of a constitutional privilege."
Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
"The right of citizens to bear
arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more
safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but
which historically has proved to be always possible."
Senator Hubert H. Humprey (D-Minnesota)
"Among the many misdeeds of the
British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a
whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
Mahatma Gandhi
REMEMBER WHAT THE BRITS DID TO THE INDIANS IN INDIA!
"The one weapon every man,
soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the
rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and
for many it is the primary weapon of offense and defense. Expertness in
its use cannot be overemphasized."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket
that is fired, signifies--in the final sense--a theft from those who
hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world
in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This
is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of
threatening war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, as only one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953.
U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)
"Before God I swear this is my creed: my rifle and myself are the
defenders of our country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the
saviors of my life. So be it until victory is America's and there is no
enemy, but peace!!
From "My Rifle", by Major General W.H. Rupertus, USMC.
...to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them..."
George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380.
Before a standing army can
rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom
in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by
the sword; because the whole of the people are armed, and constitute a
force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any
pretense, raised in the United States."
Noah Webster, "An Examination into the leading Principles of the Federal Constitution."
in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States , at 56 (New York, 1888).
"... if raised, whether they could subdue a Nation of freemen, who know how to prize liberty, and who have arms in their hands?"
Delegate Sedgewick, during the Massachusetts Convention, rhetorically asking if an oppressive standing army could prevail ...
Johnathon Elliot, ed., Debates in the Several State Conventions on the
Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 2 at 97 (2d ed., 1888)
"Besides the advantage of
being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost
every other nation ... notwithstanding the military establishments in
the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public
resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people
with arms.
James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in Federalist Paper No. 46, at 243-244.
"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone."
James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in Federalist Paper No. 46.
"A government that does not trust it's law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust."
James Madison, Federalist Papers
"As
civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may
attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be
occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to
the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the
article in their right to keep and bear private arms."
Tench Coxe, in "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution." under the pseudonym,
"A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 Col. 1.
"Congress
have no power to disarm the militia .... Their swords and every other
terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American.
Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gezette Feb. 20, 1788
"... the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
Tench Coxe in
"Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal
Constitution." Under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the
Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1.
"The supposed quietude of a
good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like laws,
discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve
order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be
preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all the world would
be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them
aside...Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived
the use of them..."
Thomas Paine, I Writings of Thomas Paine at 56 (1894)
"Are we at last brought to such
humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with
arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms
in possession and under our direction, and having them under the
management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having
those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or
equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d Ed. Philadelphia, 1836.
"Mr. Madison has introduced his long expected amendments... The rights
of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are
declared to be inherent in the people." .
Fisher Ames of Massachusetts
...and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
Luke 22: 36
