"We have seen the record of gun control,
and it is a record of crime fighting failure."
Senator
John McCain, FOP Poll
Heller and the citizens of
DC won!
"The
Second Amendment protects an individual right to
possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and
to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as
self-defense within the home." --SCOTUS 6-26-08
DC v. Heller links:
Summary and all opinions
here; decision
here.
"It's time to give the
Constitution a chance."
--Alan Gottlieb, Second
Amendment Foundation
Welcome!Second Amendment Sisters,
Inc. is a non-partisan, all-volunteer,
non-profit organization. All membership dues and donations go directly to
efforts to retain and
regain our rights guaranteed by the
Second Amendment! JOIN SAS!
"If anybody comes into my
home and tries to hurt my kids,
I've no problem shooting them."
--Angelina Jolie,
Daily Mail
SAS
president Mari Thompson
presents SAS tee to Mr. Heller
(DC v. Heller) March 18, 2008!
"Of all the arguments that could be
made against the Second Amendment, the claim that the
risk of violence justifies the abrogation of civil
rights is both the most shallow and most dangerous..." --Karen L. MacNutt, Women and Guns,
Spring 2008
The Racist Roots
of Gun Control
here
|The Racist Origins of
US Gun ControlLawshere
(click "History")|
Disarm the Negroes
here
"We must reject the idea
that every time a law is broken, society is
guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the
American
precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
--Ronald Reagan
"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
~Presidential candidates'
true positions on gun ownership:
Read articles by Dr. John Lott
on
Obama
here and GAO's John Velleco on
McCain
here.
Press Release
here. SAS amicus
brief against the DC gun ban
here! Heller's
picks: DC Gun
Ban Case blog
here
and David T. Hardy
videos
here.
The SCOTUS wiki on DC v. Heller
is available
here.
See the
events page
for more details!
SAS Supports Heller's
Second Amendment Rights in Landmark Hearing!
SAS president Mari Thompson with Dick Anthony Heller,
surrounded by state coordinators, family, and friends
at the Supreme Court of the United States, March 18,
2008.
How a politician stands on the
Second
Amendment
tells you how he or she views you
as an
individual
... as a trustworthy
and productive
citizen, or
as
part of an
unruly
crowd
that needs to be lorded
over,
controlled,
supervised, and
taken
care of.” -- Suzanna
Gratia-Hupp
On March 18, SAS-MD organized a rally at
the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Heller's right to
self defense in his home. SAS officials, members, and
friends joined us from across the U.S.!
"Disarming people — slaves and Indians in early America,
Jews in Nazi
Germany, etc. — has always made them more vulnerable,
not safer.
... The most effective way to minimize ... violence … is
to recognize
the natural right of people ... to defend their own
lives."
-- Henry Heymering
The Saga of HB
1060:
Is Democracy Dead in Maryland?
It was
arguably one of the most important and well-supported constitutional-rights bills
of the session. It passed in the House and moved on to the Senate,
where it landed in the Judicial Proceedings Committee and died
in Chairman Brian Frosh's drawer.
The bill would
have protected a law-abiding citizen from being liable for
damages for a personal injury or death of an individual who
enters his or her home or place of business with the intent to
commit a crime. SAS strongly supported this bill, and
considered it important for women, the elderly, and people with
disabilities, who frequently are the targets of violent crime
because they are easy prey.
Is democracy
dead in Maryland?
See
also: (1) MSI President Henry Heymering asks, do actions
taken by key officials in the Maryland General Assembly signal
"the end of democracy?" (Click
here.)
(2)
Discussion on The High Road
here.
"The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and
a slave."
--James Burgh
Video message
from the citizens of the
UK and AU:
Don't allow "gesture politics" by your legislators
to destroy
your rights. See how dictatorship silently trumps
democracy.
SAS and friends in action:
VP Dick Cheney and a majority in
the U.S. Congress support the individual right to keep
and bear arms
here.
Baltimore Examiner article
here. Maryland Shall Issue joins
Gunowners of America amicus brief in DC vs. Hellerhere-CNS News "National Exercise Your Rights
Day" rally
here
(see video here)
-Washington Times
letter-to-the-editor by Jane Weaver here- Author Kenn Blanchard
here-Rabid Centristhere- Women shooting in La Plata, MD
here-
Favorite linkshere.
Reason article
here.
Terrorism Thwartedhere.
“If someone has a gun and
is trying to kill you, it would
be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
--The Dalai Lama
"To ignore all
evidence of the meaning and intent of one of those
rights included in the Bill of Rights is to create the
most dangerous sort of precedent, one whose consequences
could flow far beyond this one issue and endanger the
fabric of liberty."
--Joyce Lee Malcolm
"The great objective is that every man be armed.
... Everyone who is able may
have a gun."
--Patrick Henry, Virginia Convention
"We have to
be very careful when we start abridging rights that the
Founding Fathers thought very important. ...There might
be circumstances that people like my father experienced
in Birmingham, Alabama, when, in fact, the police
weren't going to protect you."
--Condoleezza Rice
"There is no
place a person can inflict (more) terror and mass mayhem
than on a gun-free zone."
--Senator Brock Greenfield, SD
"The Constitution was
written to protect man from the government."
--Ayn Rand
"Criminals
are not stopped by talk, but by FIREARMS. That is why
all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST!!"
--Wendy Weinbaum, Rapid City Journal, February
6, 2008
"[The] IL State
Legislative National Political Awareness Test...[found]...that Obama wanted to 'ban the sale or transfer of all
forms of semi-automatic weapons.' Indeed, such a
ban would outlaw virtually all handguns and the vast
majority of rifles sold in the United States."
--John Lott,
FOXNEWS.COM, 2008
“A
disgruntled student at Appalachian Law School, Peter
Odighizuwa, allegedly shot and killed the school's dean,
a professor and a student on campus before being subdued
by two armed students.”
--Christine
Hall, CNSNEWS.COM
"Law abiding citizens have to stop allowing themselves
to be made victims by a so-called benevolent government
that convinces them they are helpless and don't possess
the intelligence and ability to defend themselves or
learn to defend themselves."
--Lynne Roberts,
Boston Globe
"The great majority of times when a
private citizen draws a gun on a criminal suspect, the
very presence of the gun suffices to end hostilities
with no shots fired."
--Massad F. Ayoob,
Brief of Amici
Curiae,
DC v. Heller
"An unarmed man can
only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing
from it."
--Jeff Cooper
"Maryland ratified the Bill of Rights in December of
1789 and a certified true copy of the amendments
considered may be found in the Maryland State Archives
Online. That document shows the 2nd Amendment as having
one comma." --Phil Lee
"Gun
laws do not disarm criminals, but instead make easy prey
out of Americans who obey them. Criminals and terrorists
should be afraid of law-abiding citizens, not the other
way around. ...The government has no right to prohibit
you from defending yourself."
--Ron Paul
"If my research convinces me of anything, when you ban
guns it's going to be the most law-abiding people who
obey these rules and not the criminals."
--John Lott, The Bias Against Guns, 2003
"Both
oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore
deprive them of their arms."
--Aristotle, Politics Ch 10 para 4.
"The common
denominator is all [the mall and school] shootings took
place in a gun free zone. The shooters made the safe
assumption that their evil plans had a probability of
succeeding because the majority, if not all of the
citizens there, would be unarmed. They were sitting
ducks."
--Duane
Lester,
allamericanblogger.com, December 10, 2007
"The said constitution shall never be construed to
authorize congress to
prevent the people of the United States who are
peaceable citizens from keeping their own
arms." --Samuel Adams
"To disarm the people —
that...[is]...the best and most effective way to enslave
them."
--George Mason, In the Virginia convention
"Experience hath shewn
(sic),
that even under the best forms...[of government,]...those
entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that all citizens have
a right to purchase a weapon to defend themselves, their
families and their homes - unless there is some
disqualification that prevents them from owning a
weapon."
--Judge Bob Moon
"Gun
control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and
gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy,
I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull
the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger.
We'll see who wins."
--Mafia informant Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
"We, too,
born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing
to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who
believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet
than live on our knees."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"When victims have guns, it is less
likely aggressors will attack or injure them."
--Gary Kleck
"There are
four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap,
ballot, jury, and ammo."
--Ed Howdershelt
"If you
disarm someone you become morally responsible for their
safety."
-- Michael D. Bartman
"A system
of licensing and registration, is the perfect device to
deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
--V.I. Lenin
"Americans
have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you
don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."
--Yoshimi Ishikawa
"I
understand the challenges that big cities face from gun
violence. But banning people from having handguns in
their own homes for self defense is excessive and
unconstitutional. ...It clearly undercuts the Second
Amendment, which protects the rights of law abiding
individuals to keep and bear arms."
--Rudy Giuliani
"Freedom
is not something to be secured in any one moment in
time, We must struggle to preserve it everyday. Freedom
is never more than one generation away from extinction."
--Ronald Reagan
"Wherever
. . . the right of the people to keep and bear arms is,
under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited,
liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of
destruction."
--St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries: With
Notes and Reference, Volume I, 1803
"Democracy is two
wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin
"The most
foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow
the subject races to possess arms. History shows that
all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to
carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing
so."
--Adolph Hitler
"Arms discourage
and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve
order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief
would ensue when the law-abiding...[are]...deprived the
use of them."
--Thomas
Paine
"The Second Amendment
secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of
States or a right restricted to persons serving in
militias."
--from
Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right,
U.S. Department of Justice, 2004
"The advantage of being
armed...the Americans possess over the people of all
other nations...[Those]...governments are afraid to
trust the people with arms."
--James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights,
Federalist Paper No. 46.
"No free
man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
--Thomas Jefferson
"In
America, we may reasonably hope that the people will
never cease to regard the right of keeping and bearing
arms as the surest pledge of their liberty."
-- St. George Tucker
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does
oppression. In both instances, there is a
twilight. And it is in such twilights that we all
must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest
we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
"The smallest minority on
earth is the individual. Those who deny individual
rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." --Ayn Rand
"Gun-free zones don't save lives, they
enable mass murder of unarmed and helpless citizens."
--Philip Van Cleave
"We believe that the time has come for the Second Amendment to
take its place
as the Constitution's insurance policy against tyranny and as
our guardian
against unjust laws that leave us defenseless against a growing
criminal element."
--Alan Gottlieb,
www.saf.org
"The Centers for Disease Control did an
extensive review of various types of
gun control: waiting periods, registration and
licensing, and bans on certain firearms.
It found that the idea that gun control laws have
reduced violent crime is simply a myth."
--John Stossel, ABC News
"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout
all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern
himself or be ruled by a small elite."
--Thomas Jefferson
"I
declare to you that woman must not depend upon the
protection of man, but must be taught to protect
herself, and there I take my stand."
--Susan B. Anthony
