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Editorial: America's 'First Freedom'
Josey1
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America's 'First Freedom'
During World War II, the Japanese questioned the validity of attacking Pearl Harbor and what outcome it could have. During those discussions, it is well documented that they believed a direct attack on mainland America would be ill fated due to the "abundance of the American cowboy." They believed that they would meet resistance at every street corner because our citizenship is armed. What was the first thing Hitler did when he came to power? He took the guns from his people and then from every person he conquered throughout Europe.
Now let's look at current events. In England and Australia it is illegal to own most types of firearms. Wow, they must have utopian societies with no violence and little or no crime! Not so. England's murder rate has grown higher and higher since weapons were banned. So much so that anti-gunners over there have deemed it to be at an "epidemic rate." So they continue to fight to ban the guns that are supposedly the root of this problem. In Australia, in the five years since anti-gun legislation was passed, they have had the same result . . . and cry the same cry! Yet here in America, where gun ownership is on the rise, our crime rate has been falling steadily since Clinton left office.
The Founding Fathers realized that without a means of protection, the people of this country could easily fall under another tyranny like the one that sparked the Revolutionary War. The Second Amendment is our guarantee that our government cannot and will not become what we do not want it to become. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is our most important right, for without it, all other rights will be trampled upon.
AARON TURPEN
Holladay
http://www.sltrib.com/07272002/public_f/public_f.htm
"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
During World War II, the Japanese questioned the validity of attacking Pearl Harbor and what outcome it could have. During those discussions, it is well documented that they believed a direct attack on mainland America would be ill fated due to the "abundance of the American cowboy." They believed that they would meet resistance at every street corner because our citizenship is armed. What was the first thing Hitler did when he came to power? He took the guns from his people and then from every person he conquered throughout Europe.
Now let's look at current events. In England and Australia it is illegal to own most types of firearms. Wow, they must have utopian societies with no violence and little or no crime! Not so. England's murder rate has grown higher and higher since weapons were banned. So much so that anti-gunners over there have deemed it to be at an "epidemic rate." So they continue to fight to ban the guns that are supposedly the root of this problem. In Australia, in the five years since anti-gun legislation was passed, they have had the same result . . . and cry the same cry! Yet here in America, where gun ownership is on the rise, our crime rate has been falling steadily since Clinton left office.
The Founding Fathers realized that without a means of protection, the people of this country could easily fall under another tyranny like the one that sparked the Revolutionary War. The Second Amendment is our guarantee that our government cannot and will not become what we do not want it to become. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is our most important right, for without it, all other rights will be trampled upon.
AARON TURPEN
Holladay
http://www.sltrib.com/07272002/public_f/public_f.htm
"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