{"id":112848,"date":"2014-04-14T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=13926920ae62cd58009067bfe436f623"},"modified":"2014-04-14T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T17:54:12","slug":"bundyranch-slaughter-how-it-would-have-turned-out-without-the-second-amendment-right-to-bear-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/bundyranch-slaughter-how-it-would-have-turned-out-without-the-second-amendment-right-to-bear-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"#BundyRanch Slaughter: How It Would Have Turned Out Without The Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">By Susan Duclos<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nqT1oPEbOYM\/U0wdltLr24I\/AAAAAAAAS3c\/lzPOvDcPT9E\/s1600\/Cowboyflag.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-nqT1oPEbOYM\/U0wdltLr24I\/AAAAAAAAS3c\/lzPOvDcPT9E\/s1600\/Cowboyflag.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/second_amendment\" rel=\"nofollow\" >Second Amendment<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;<em>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.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Does anybody doubt that had an <em>armed militia<\/em>, along with Cliven Bundy supporters, not been on the scene in Gold Butte, near Bunkerville Nevada, surrounding government goons that places signs on fencing that declared &#8220;First Amendment Area&#8221; and threatening Mr. Bundy&#8217;s land, property, freedom and livelihood by rounding up (and killing some) his cattle, that things would have &#8220;appeared&#8221; to end as they did?<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The Bureau of Land Management agents aka federal government goons and cattle rustlers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/blm-flip-flops-no-deal-on-dropping-actions-against-bundy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >seemed to back down<\/a> for &#8220;safety&#8221; reasons and after another standoff with the militia members that traveled from around the country, with neighbors and Bundy supporters, released Bundy&#8217;s cattle.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">This reminded me of video I watched in January 2013, of an anti-gun town meeting that took place in Glenview, Illinois, where some government, anti-gun rights flack, talking about the Second Amendment, asked &#8220;<em>Do we want it? Do we need it now and is it still relevant today?<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">I suggest that man go to Nevada and ask that question to Mr. Cliven Bundy.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">At that meeting, a war veteran stood up and educated that same idiot, on the reasons the Second Amendment is just as relevant today as it was when the Second Amendment was adopted.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">He said, and I quote &#8220;T<em>he threat of tyranny today is no less than the turn of the century in the 1900s or the 1800s, or 1700s.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/gun_control\/65_see_gun_rights_as_protection_against_tyranny\" rel=\"nofollow\" >polling done the same month as this veterans words were said<\/a>, 65% of Americans also said &#8220;the purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure that people are able to protect themselves from tyranny.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Watch the video from January 2013, then watch the one below it where the very tyranny this war veteran spoke of, being just as much a threat today as it was in times past, is proven by the very actions of the federal government at Bundy Ranch.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7C44B55YYLQ\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhJ6H9vlEDA\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">I would say that the threat of tyranny is MORE relevant today than it was back then and without an armed militia, that tyranny would have commenced until Mr. Bundy&#8217;s cattle were all gone, sold or slaughtered, his land destroyed, and his family quite possibly murdered.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The Bundy Ranch standoff and Range War is the BEST argument ever against gun control!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">For those that think the tyrants running this country are done with Mr. Bundy&#8230;.. <a href=\"http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/agenda-21\/2014\/04\/bundyranch-military-seen-moving-in-standoff-not-over-558.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" >think again<\/a>!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avSFYpgSse0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/b4in.info\/fXPL\" >Before It&#8217;s News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blogspot\/rnoHn\/~4\/nioWoBSCqfU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Duclos&nbsp;Second Amendment &#8211; &#8220;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.&#8221;&nbsp;Does anybody doubt that had an armed militia, along with Cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}