On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) stated that Maine does have a lot of guns, “But if you’re going hunting for a deer, you’re not taking a military-style assault weapon with multiple ammunition with it.” And that the one thing that was out of place in the Lewiston shooting “was an assault rifle, a weapon that was designed just to kill people.”
Pingree stated, “[T]here’s been a long tradition in Maine of Republicans and Democrats saying — as you often hear — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and other people in northern New England say — we’ve got a strong gun tradition in our state, we just can’t go against that. And you never know in political life when the tipping point will hit, but it just felt today like when this was happening in our state and people were looking around, saying, oh my goodness, what are we going to do about this? Well, the one thing that was out of place in that picture was an assault rifle, a weapon that was designed just to kill people. And, as I said, we have a lot of guns in our state. But if you’re going hunting for a deer, you’re not taking a military-style assault weapon with multiple ammunition with it.”
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Apparently, this clown doesn’t know their own country’s history because the 2nd Amendment was not for hunting.
They were not being overrun by deer.
That’s just talking points for Socialist DecocRats.
“Dem Rep. Pingree: People Don’t Hunt with ‘Military-Style Assault Weapon with Multiple Ammunition with It’”
Start with a faulty premise, or in this case a faulty ‘definition’ and you will end up with a faulty result. Since there is no such thing as an “assault weapon” – no matter how often the hoplophobes use that bogus term she failed. That is analogous to painting 53 on a classic VW and calling Herbie.
The point of lawful American citizens owning rifles like the AR-15, AK-47, M1A and other magazine fed semiauto rifles is not deer hunting.
The point is for lawful American citizens to be able to protect themselves from fascist socialist Political Class tyrants who work every day to destroy the liberty of the American people, disarm them and leave them defenseless against the autocratic dictatorship that the fascist socialist Political Class tyrants UNLAWFULLY work to impose upon the people. This is precisely why the Democrat Master Race is so pathologically obsessed with taking from the people the single most effective rifle for resisting and defeating tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson: “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
And: “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.”
And: “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.”
George Mason: “I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”
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.”
And: “…the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone…”
Richard Henry Lee: “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves… and include, according to the past and general usage 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.”
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 ruined… The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”
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.”
Tench Coxe: “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.”
And: “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? …Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”