Posted: 10/23/2005 11:33:15 AM EDT
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I have to write a persuasive paper on why Americans should have the right to bear arms. But here's the catch. I have to write it in the mind-set of the year 1789 and as if I am writing to my congressman. So, I need ideas and pointers of what to put in my paper. Thanks for the help! |
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You live out in the middle of nowhere. No phone. No internet. No alarm system. Your friendly neighborhood Indian, bear, or white scumbag comes through your door while you, your wife, and your kids are having dinner. Ask your idiot teacher where "CALL 911!!!" would apply in that situation.  ETA: Oh, and there's no supermarket. Try hunting deer with a rock when there is no other source of meat. |
also, the war started over the british attempt at gun/weapons control/seizure. |
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Early 911 was "One if by land and two if by sea" There wasn't a police force back then either. People probably also felt they could protect themselves better than King George's men could. Quote Thomas Jefferson. Not too many history teachers, liberal or not, will take on old Tom.
I highlighted a few words and in one instance the whole quote... This is why they needed arms in 1789 and still to this day... Tom was a visionary.. |
Both are from Gunfacts.info; and the former highlights the obvious but oft-ignored fact that the 2nd amendment was as much about personal defense as national defense. |
March 4 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States to be in effect. September 25 - The United States Congress proposes a set of twelve amendments for ratification by the states. Ratification for ten of these proposals is completed on December 5, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights. An additional proposal is ratified more than two centuries later in 1992. |
That's about graphic enough to send most 'krats into shakes'n shivers.  Oh yeah...and no social feel good programs either.
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| Remember that the cities of the time were not safe places. There was no street lighting. Men today still walk (when they walk) on the street side of their ladies to protect them. Also knives were much more prevalent than after cartridge weapons came into use. You had one or maybe two shots and then it was down to clubs and knives. |
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Put yourself in the life of a person of the era, your life revolves around the church, the preachers have been preaching liberty for 150 years, you are a decendant of the original colonists and the militia has been the only protection of you and your family and community. There is no governent other than you and your country men. Read rebels and Read coats by George F Scheer and Hugh F Rankin, The American Revolution Throught the Eyeys of those who Fought and Lived it. (its in their own words and spelling) |