September 12

Concealed Guns in NYC Backed by 243 in U.S. House

Source: www.bloomberg.com

I’ve never touched a handgun and I haven’t been to Florida in decades, yet this month Florida officials mailed me a permit to carry a concealed gun.

Posted September 12, 2011 by calenfretts in category "Facebook link

We may breathe for a time under the blighting shadow of a splendid, national, consolidated government; but, sir, it will be to us and our posterity the calm of despotism. Virginia will be Virginia no longer. She may, indeed, retain her place on that map; her rivers may continue to rail to the ocean; and her mountains may lift their eternal summits to the skies; but her spirit will be gone, and she will tamely crouch under the rod of tyrants. When we yield this principle of State Sovereignty, let us strike our proud motto from our arms, for the broken chain and the dagger, her sic semper tyrannis, and all the recollections of her ancient glory, will only remain as sad memorials of her degradation. To live under such a government is not the liberty I desire. I would rather have a crust of bread and a cup of cold water in a wilderness, where I was free, than to tread the halls of palaces, and be a slave.
- Mr. Gilmer, of Albemarle, Richmond Enquirer, 1833