The Supreme Court finally got something right this week. Yes, the founding fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote the Second Amendment. Here’s what they said:

Thomas Jefferson – Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” an admonition made possible by the right to bear arms of parity with those of the standing army. “On every occasion of Constitutional interpretation, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying to force what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, instead let us conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

Samuel Adams – The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

Alexander Hamilton – If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens.

Patrick Henry – The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.

George Mason – To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

Justice Joseph Story – Consider the right to keep and bear arms “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny.

James Madison – “The advantage of being armed, the Americans possess over the people of all other nations. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

Noah Webster – “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every Kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power.”

Benjamin Franklin – Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Richard Henry Lee, Senator – “A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, and include all men capable of bearing arms.”

I too was tickled pink over the ruling…mostly. It’s still disturbing that it was not a unanimous decision.

As for Bob Hauser’s comments, well, I can only assume, based on his comment, that he gets all of his news and information from Hustler magazine… btw, Bob if you had taken the opportunity to actually read the post, you *might* have understood that the top photo *isn’t* really Michelle Malkin — it’s a forgery. Of course, trying to explain this to Bob is about as pointless and getting him to comprehend that all those sexy young women he lusts after in Hustler aren’t “secretly wishing” to meet him…