Arms = tools of defense Firearms = a word created by politicians to be defined as a commodity in interstate commerce that the commerce clause grants authority to Congress to regulate.
In other words, they created a “new term” and ascribed to it a definition using Constitutional authority to undermine the restriction placed upon government by the Constitution’s Bill Of Rights itself. If properly asserted Marbury v. Madison would nullify this term entirely. But considering it is also 14th Amendment jurisdiction that supports the authority and jurisdiction, and considering the Republic was overthrown after the Civil War by section 4 especially of the 14th (also should be seen as stricken) these politicians and their forked tongues have legislated us into tyranny.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
While the above quote is attributed to George Washington, that has not been proven as fact, although it has been rumored Washington uttered many things that were not memorialized in his official documents and speeches.
But here are some quotes that are checked.
Patrick Henry
- “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 inevitably ruined.”
George Mason
- “To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”
James Madison
- “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.”
- “The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone.”
Noah Webster
- “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of 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 bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
Samuel Adams
- “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Richard Henry Lee
- “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.”
Thomas Jefferson
- “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”