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Big Brother schools set the stage for disarming America

Posted 10 Mar 2008 in gun control, liberals, wise quotes

Yet another sickening instance of taxpayer dollars being used to further an anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment agenda in public schools. Via Neal Boortz:

I was sorting out some papers over the weekend … and came upon one of my favorites. It’s a page out of an “Activity Book” published by Harcourt Brace, now called Harcourt Education. This page is entitled “Rights & Wrongs” and comes from the Harcourt social studies textbook “United States in Modern Times.” The heading for this page says “In the late eighteenth century many people complained that the Constitution did not list rights of the people. So the authors of the Constitution decided to write a Bill of Rights. These first ten amendments to the Constitution state simply and clearly citizens’ rights that the government cannot take away.”

This particular page (page 14) of the “Activity Book” then lists the Bill of Rights with short explanations of each one. I thought you might like to see what this book says about the 2nd Amendment:

“The Second Amendment * says that states may enlist citizens for a trained militia [army] and provide and train them with weapons.”

Are you believing that? This, my friends, is the way the government schools work to indoctrinate rather than educate. In the heading Harcourt says that the Bill of Rights protects the rights of the people … then they go on to say that the 2nd Amendment actually protects the rights of government.

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As usual, Neal cuts through the PC crap and makes a good point. That textbook contains the kind of subtle dissembling which creates a mindset for future acceptance of a judicially-imposed disarming of the American public, which is the stated goal of many “gun control” advocates on the far left:

“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles…that we are unable to think about reality.”
– President William J. Clinton

“For target shooting, that’s okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that’s why we have police departments.”
– James Brady

“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren’t here.”
– Dianne Feinstein

“Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
– Mao Tse Tung

In contrast:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
– U. S. Constitution

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
– Patrick Henry

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to ‘keep and bear arms.’ If it had, there would have been wording such as ‘the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’”
– Ken Konecki

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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