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Their target: your guns; with America on the front line of the terror war, it would be insane to disarm law-abiding citizens. Yet this is what the UN seeks -- and the Bush administration is quietly acquiescing. (On the Home Front).

The New American

| October 07, 2002 | Eddlem, Thomas R. | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"This declaration of rights, as I take it, is intended to secure the people against the mal-administration of the government," stated Congressman Elbridge Gerry (Mass.) as he opened discussion of the Second Amendment on August 17, 1789. "If we could suppose that, in all cases, the rights of the people would be attended to, the occasion for guards of this kind would be removed.... 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."

Like the other Founders, Gerry used the term "militia" to describe an armed, law-abiding citizenry capable of defending ...

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