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Favorable article on self defense

Posted by David Hardy · 20 November 2006 07:12 PM

The Memphis Commercial Appeal has an article favorable to self defense.

"People are scared, very scared," says Chris Fowler, 56, who co-owns Top Brass Sports. "And I understand."

He understands because he sees the looks on their faces.

When Vietnamese immigrants were being victimized in Parkway Village, many came to Top Brass for training -- so many, in fact, that Fowler brought in a Baptist missionary to serve as an interpreter.

"I've had Arabs, Pakistanis, Hispanics, and they're all U.S. citizens," Fowler says. "These people have stores, businesses. They've been robbed and they don't want to break the law."

· Self defense

1 Comment | Leave a comment

Don Hamrick | November 20, 2006 11:24 PM | Reply

Anyone in the U.S. Government or State Government that advocates gun control (the United Nations included!) also advocates GENOCIDE!

All Federal and State gun control laws, regardless of how reasonable they are professed to be or purport to be of a governmental interest, by their very nature violate 18 U.S.C. § 1091(a)(4) Genocide and Article 2(c) of the Genocide Convention. The governmental interest in gun control is the ways and means to commit genocide? That’s the dirty secret of gun cuntrol!

The Second Amendment is an Absolute Right
under International Human Rights Law

The Second Amendment right to openly keep and bear arms as a sidearm, i.e., “National Open Carry Handgun or Small Arms and Light Weapons” in intrastate and interstate travel is, in fact and law, an absolute right, and is jus cogens under:

(1) The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, New York, 9 December 1948 (Resolution 260 (III), Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session, Part I (A/810), p. 174.)

(2) The Right to Life provision in

(a) Article I of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man,

(b) Article 3 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

(c) Article 6 of the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

(3) The Right to Life is implied in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and in the Second Amendment. It is explicit in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

(4) Human rights are acknowledged in Article 1.3, Article 13.1.b., Article 55.c., Article 62.2., Article 68, Article 76.c., in the United Nations Charter.

(5) Fundamental Freedoms are acknowledged in Article 1.3, Article 13.1.b., Article 55.c., Article 62.2., Article 76.c., in the United Nations Charter and throughout the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, General Assembly resolution 53/144, A/RES/53/144; 8 March 1999

Norms of ‘jus cogens’ and Obligations ‘erga omnes’: A Revival of the Natural Law Tradition in International Law?

Maurizio Ragazzi

In international law, there are norms from which no derogation is permitted (jus cogens) and obligations binding on all States without exception, every State having an interest in their protection (erga omnes). What is the ultimate foundation of these categories of norms and obligations? Is it the will of the stronger States (or of a majority of them acting arbitrarily) or is it a higher moral law to which international law, like all human law, must conform? http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/cssr2002/Abstract--Ragazzi.pdf

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