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Avengers: Endgame (2019) | dir. Anthony and Joe Russo
Nike don’t make combat boots they make running shoes for cowards
I literally own two pairs of Nike made boots which I’ve used extensively for airborne operations, rucking, patrolling and in garrison; you dumb fuck. Stop using dead soldiers as props, you know nothing.
You sure are a whiny little bitch. What kind of faggot wears Nike boots anyways 😏
A soldier does. Nice of you to show your colors.
Nike boots were the best. 9 months in the Stan and they were awesome.
The Truth About ‘Separating Children’
Rachel Maddow cried on TV! Surely this means we must erase the borders. There’s an audio tape of a kid crying! Let’s just get rid of laws.
Give me a break.
If you really think the left cares about the children and not the raw lust for power then you’re an idiot. They don’t care about children being separated from their parents. As soon as Trump passed an executive order stopping that exact thing they said it wasn’t good enough.
Aren’t you just sick of these phonies constantly trying to claim the moral high ground. Oh yeah, you really care about the children while simultaneously advocating the kidnap and rape of a child, while simultaneously encouraging people to target the children of Border Patrol agents, while simultaneously threatening Donald Trump Jr’s four-year-old daughter. Yeah, you really care about the children don’t you.
This guy really cares about the children. He cares about the children so much he called up a Republican congressman’s office, and threatened to kill his children. Oh, you care about the children. You care so much you’re literally trying to end a program that protects these children from sex trafficking.
You care about the children so much you’re incentivizing them to make dangerous daunting journeys where they risk rape and death. 80% of Central American girls are raped attempting to reach the US. That’s what you’re incentivizing. That’s how much you care about the children. 10,000 of the 12,000 children are sent by their parents. Their parents chose to separate from them long before they reached America. You don’t care about that, do ya?
But you care about the children being kept in detention cages – except when Obama did it for years. Then you didn’t give a shit. Yeah, when families were being separated under Obama, didn’t care about that, did you? There was no political power to be gained from your fake outrage. Just like you didn’t give a shit about Obama drone striking kids all over the world.
But now you’ve suddenly developed a conscience, now when Republicans are in office. Gee, what a coincidence. But you really care about the children. That’s why you were so outraged when Hillary Clinton said the children needed to be sent back. No no, that’s right, you said absolutely fuck all about it. Just like you said fuck all when Obama said the same thing.
But you really care about the children. You care so much about the children, that you demand MS-13 gang members be treated humanely. Animals that routinely massacre children. You care so much.
The left really cares about families being separated. I mean it’s not like they sat back for decades and watched families in America fall apart while divorce skyrocketed, and broken homes became the norm, is it?
Time magazine cares so much about the children…except when it comes to Americans having children, in which case they tell them not to at every available opportunity.
And no, this is not a Nazi policy, you utter simpletons. An Obama-era, Ninth Circuit Court decision isn’t comparable to one of the biggest mass murderers in human history, you utter clowns! And Nazi separated children from their parents so they could murder them. Pretending that that is anything akin to this is an insult to actual Holocaust victims. So, shut the fuck up.
It’s funny isn’t it how this has played out. It was the Ninth Circuit that ruled it was inhumane to keep kids with their parents, but now the left is saying it’s inhumane to separate kids from their parents. So, the only solution is to release the parents: “catch and release”. Which will coincidentally create the very open border insanity that the Left wanted all along. While importing a huge new voting bloc who will later vote for them. While bringing in millions more wage slaves for big business to exploit as cheap labor. Gee, it’s almost like they planned it all from the start.
And all this crying and wailing, all this propaganda, all this fake imagery was just a ruse to emotionally manipulate everyone into supporting their real agenda. Surely they wouldn’t do that…would they? Surely they wouldn’t be that heartless. I mean it’s not like they expressed their desire to see the president’s twelve-year-old son put in a cage with pedos and raped, is it?
This also broadcast the message that any illegal alien wanting to cross into America just has to bring a kid with them. MS-13, ISIS, come on in! Putting the kid at risk of death, rape, and sex trafficking. Because the left really cares about the children.
At least Canada cares about the children. As Trudeau said, “This is not the way we do things in Canada.” Except…that it is.
“But Paul there was a kid on tape crying! Rachel Maddow cried on TV!” 14 heartbreaking photos that will make you say fuck having borders and shit.
Here’s the bottom line: Trump knows what’s happening in Europe. He’s seen the surge in violent crime, the murders, the rapes, the ghettoization, and he’s standing up against an onslaught of faux outrage and contrived virtue-signaling from a deluge of morons who were quite happily see America turned into a crime-ridden cesspit, so long as it satiates their Trump Derangement Syndrome. Remember, the left wants America to fail. They want the plane to crash – even though they’re on it. So, no. The same people who say we should display humanity to MS-13 gang members, who rape and kill children, don’t get to lecture us about humanity towards children. You can argue whether Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy was implemented badly or not, you can argue about what the real solution should be, but please save me the sanctimonious moralizing about how much you care about the children. Because ’m not stupid, I wasn’t born yesterday, and I’m not buying it. You don’t care about the children, you care about power, raw power and nothing more.
You know what the beauty of America is?
You can’t go to India and become Indian. You can’t go to Russia and become Russian. You can’t go to Australia and become Australian. You can’t go to Japan and become Japanese. You can’t go to France and become French.
But you can go to America and become American.
You can be Indian and become American. You can be Russian and become American. You can be Australian and become American. You can be Japanese and become American. You can be French and become American.
You can come from anywhere in the world and become American, be part of the land of the free and home of the brave.
Are we undergoing rather ridiculous social issues? Yes, we are. We are arguing over the political correctness of peoples and failing to realize that in the end, it really doesn’t matter. You’re a homosexual? Cool, just don’t hurt anyone. You’re a Muslim? That’s fine though I don’t see why you would want to be here because most of our rules go against your religious ideas, so if you’re going to live here to complain about our country, then don’t live here. Same can be said for any other culture or person that sets foot on this land.
People, no matter what their background is, want to live in America simply to have freedom and a sense of peace. This does not mean that you can rub in someone else’s face that you’re different than them. You’re a liberal? Fine, just don’t preach about it, we conservatives are sick of hearing the ignorance. You’re a conservative? Great, just don’t bash on the liberals, we need a balance after all. You’re a homosexual or have some other peculiar sexual orientation? Splendid, just don’t scream it to the world, it won’t change anything. You’re a heterosexual? Wonderful, just don’t criticize other orientations, it won’t change anything for either party. Are you anything at all? Yes, we all are.
This is the beauty of America: there is so much diversity and varieties of people here and despite social issues that may arise (due to political correctness), we somehow make it work.
So if you’re going to live in America, remember who you are, who you have or are going to become, because no one can stop you.
Be strong, be of courage, God bless America, and long live the Republic.
Ridley for Smash!!!
“The Second Amendment was misinterpreted so people could say their gun rights were protected but it was just to protect the rights to militia!” I say into the mic.
the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.
“he’s right!” they say. i look for the owners of the voices. there in the 5th row stands: Literally all of the founding fathers themselves.
“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…”
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.“
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
“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.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
“On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
“I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence … I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.“
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
“To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788
“I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.”
- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”
- James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
“…the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone…”
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
- William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783
“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”
- Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty…. The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and 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 on the Laws of England, 1803
“The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves.”
- Thomas Paine, “Thoughts on Defensive War” in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
“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 the 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.”
- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
“What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty …. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”
- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789
“For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.”
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.”
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28
“[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.”
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28, January 10, 1788
“As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people 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 their private arms.”
- Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
(All quotes cited and provided by Buckeye Firearms Association)
So much this!
Get fucked, OP, you commiefag.
OP was shamed into deleting the post and changing URL’s. @haikushogun was it really that harsh being proven so totally wrong.
New Star Wars trilogy but Rey is a Tusken Raider.
Not a human girl raised as a Tusken Raider.
A full on HOOOONGWROONGHRUUURR Tusken Raider with the weird stick and the mask
You know there had to have been a Jedi that was a Tusken Raider at some point. Complete with a light-weirdstick
I think there was I just forget the name
Tahiri Veila was raised by tusken raiders. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tahiri_Veila
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) dir. Doug Liman
Great line.
I want you to convey in the General Orders that we are sensible of the Army’s sufferings and have left no expedient unessayed to relieve them. We began a contest for liberty and independence ill provided with the means for war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distresses, and we should not shrink from them when they happen nor fly in the face of law to procure redress. No doubt the public will do ample justice to the men fighting and suffering in its defense; but it is our duty to bear present evils.
George Washington (via philosophicalconservatism)
Thomas Sowell on Reparations for Slavery
In 1776 – when Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, as well as when the United States got started – he said that western Europe was the only place in the world where there is no slavery. And even the western Europeans had vast numbers of slaves in the western hemisphere, just not in western Europe itself.
And so, if you’re going to have reparations for slavery, it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth, and in between, and crosshauling as they say in the railroad; because the number of whites, for example, who were enslaved in north Africa by the Barbary Pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that – put together. But nobody is going to north Africa to ask for reparations. Because nobody is going to be foolish enough to give it to them. Here we have intellectuals who can imagine a different history from the rest of the world, even though it is so similar to the rest of the world.
[Full interview]
It’s Monday…
The main reason pro-gun people and anti-gun people can’t talk to each other is that their respective rhetorics are based on two irreconcilable worldviews. The anti-gun people are essentially collectivist; the pro-gun people are essentially individualist.
Lately, for example, I’ve been hearing arguments from the anti-gun people about how “arming teachers” is a bad idea. The image they’re evoking with this language is that of a group of teachers lining up to receive their mandatory government-issued firearm for use in defending their classrooms. Most proposals I’ve seen, however, aren’t for arming teachers en masse. They are for allowing individual teachers who are already permitted to carry guns to do so on school property. The anti-gun people use collectivist language about “arming” a group of people, while the pro-gun people use individualist language about allowing individuals to make a choice about whether to carry a gun.
Similarly, anti-gun people often say things like “More guns are not the solution.” The image they are evoking is that of a basically homogeneous group of people, some percentage of which are causing problems for the group with their guns. To the collectivist mind, the proposed solution–increasing the percentage of gun ownership within the group–is absurd. But of course arbitrarily increasing the percentage of guns is not a solution anyone is proposing. The solution the pro-gun people are proposing is to remove limitations on the law-abiding members of the group that put them at a disadvantage when dealing with the non-law abiding members.
I often see anti-gun people make statements like “Children dying isn’t worth your right to have an AR-15.” To a collectivist, this statement makes perfect sense: after all, there’s no doubt that as a group, we’d be better off if there were no AR-15s. To an individualist, though, this statement is at best nonsensical and at worst insulting. To an individualist, the statement translates to “You personally having an AR-15 increases the chances of children dying.” And it doesn’t help when the anti-gun people go the next logical step and call NRA members “murderers” for something that none of their individual members have done.
This is also how collectivists are able to justify a ban on guns which would have to enforced by people with guns. To the collectivist, “police” are a different group than “civilians,” and it’s assumed that when you are talking about gun regulations, you are talking about regulations for civilians. For individualists, this distinction reeks of hypocrisy, because they see both the police and civilians as individual members of society, to whom the same laws should apply.
The problem of incompatible worldviews is complicated by the fact that in America, overt collectivism is still frowned on to some degree. Americans of all political stripes like to think we are proponents of individual freedom. Many collectivists in the U.S. are so inculcated in individualist language that they don’t even know they are collectivists (these are the people who resort to supporting their arguments with vague pronouncements about “the greater good,” “social welfare,” “the social contract,” etc.) Thus, collectivists tend (intentionally or unintentionally) to cloak their language in individualist rhetoric about “rights.” For example, “Doesn’t my child have a right to go to school without being shot?”
The problem with this question is that while it’s ostensibly about individual rights, it’s really a way of surreptitiously shifting the conversation onto collectivist grounds. It’s a way of saying that my fear (rational or not) outweighs your so-called rights. And once you accept that premise, you’re stuck in the collectivist mindset. Individual rights are now just an obstacle in the way of creating a perfectly just, peaceful society where no one is ever shot (or harmed in any other way, presumably).
You’ve probably figured out by now which of these two camps I’m in. I don’t pretend to be objective, but I have some pretty good reasons for preferring the individualist mindset to the collectivist. For one thing, as I’ve already mentioned, it’s telling that the collectivists have to employ misdirection and rhetoric borrowed from individualism in order to make their point. Most Americans still know on some level that the greatness of our country was its emphasis on individual rights over collective concerns, so the collectivists have to rely on deception to win them over.
Secondly, in my experience individualists have a pretty good understanding of the collectivist worldview. It isn’t difficult for most pro-gun people to perform a convincing imitation of the anti-gun argument. Anti-gun people, on the other hand, seem genuinely incapable of understanding pro-gun arguments, and end up arguing against strawmen tainted by their own collectivist ideology. This leads me to believe that collectivism is an intellectual crutch for those who can’t make sense of individualism.
But the main problem with collectivism as it relates to gun control and any other problem is that in the end, people *are* individuals. If you break a gun law, you, an individual, go to prison. If a burglar breaks into your house, you, an individual, are victimized. If you shoot a person, you, an individual, are responsible. You can talk about “society” having a problem with “gun violence,” but in the end what you are talking about is some individuals being hurt by other individuals with guns.
Collectivist language can be useful, but the collectivist worldview is at best an approximation and at worst a crutch for bigots and the intellectually lazy. Laws are applied to individual people, and I believe they should be passed with that in mind. You don’t have to believe that, but if you are in favor of gun control, you should at least make an effort to understand why many people do.
Amazingly well-said
Fucking hell, look at this post. This is a damn good post.
Always reblog
Now THATS what I’m talking about.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.“ - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776 “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787 “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785 “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.“ - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789 “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.“ - Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” - Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778 “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” - Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 “What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty …. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.” - Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789 “If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.” - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28 “[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.” - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28, January 10, 1788 “As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people 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 their private arms.” - Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
Who’s laughing now?
The be all and end all.
Fuck y’all.
I will reblog this every time it crosses my dash.
I’ll reblog it again!
I’m glad this is still going around
just wanted to let you all know that I only have a few short months before I finally win tumblr. thank you to everyone who has supported me and I am sorry to everyone else who has lost