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This man, who is an immigrant to America, knows more about the 2nd amendment than most Americans do. Bravo to him! :ymapplause:

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uglypitbull wrote:This man, who is an immigrant to America, knows more about the 2nd amendment than most Americans do. Bravo to him! :ymapplause:

I can't see the video because the filters at my work block it. But from this post, I can get an idea of what it is about and would like to share the following experience from my family.

My mother is from Chile and was born at the time Chile was under Communist rule (Salvador Allende). They were a family of 10 children and Communism had destroyed the country financially. She remembers taking handfuls of cash to the store and only receiving a small loaf of bread in return. Augusto Pinochet seized control of the country in a military coup funded by the Good Ol' US of A and Salvador Allende commited suicide(according to the official reports). My mother was only a little girl but she remembers things being lots better under Pinochet's dictatorship. They could buy more food and were no longer struggling as hard to survive. Pinochet was praised as a savior and the whole country loved him. So when he asked for their guns, they had no problems giving them up. He said that he would protect them. My mother still remembers the day that his troops came into her town and starting murdering the citizens that had previously been affiliated with the Communist Party. She remembers them dragging her neighbors into the middle of the street and shooting them. She hid under a table and still remembers the screams. Pinochet made 3,000 citizens "disappear" and tortured over 30,000. Needless to say, my mother is a huge supporter of the 2nd Amendment because she knows firsthand that it is what makes us citizens instead of subjects.

Some of the highlights in text...... and yes, your mother has a first hand experience of what gun control looks like. We would all be wise to listen to people like her explain what really happens. Several people have told us of their first hand experiences in Russia, Germany, China, etc...

“Forgive me, English is not my first language. I am a legal immigrant and I am an American by choice,” he began, prompting applause from the audience.

“Thank you for giving me this opportunity to express my opinion and give my testimony in opposition to the majority of the proposed bills, which do nothing to deter future crimes,” he added. “Gun control doesn’t work.”

Ong then launched into a impassioned diatribe about what he considers to be the real problem fueling gun gun violence — “societal decay.”

“Your own history is replete with high school rifle teams, boy scout marksmanship merit badges,” he explained. “You could buy rifles at hardware stores, you could order them… your country was awash in readily available firearms and ammunition, and yet in your past you did not have mass school shootings*.”

“What changed?” he asked. “It was not that the availability of guns suddenly exploded or increased, it actually was decreased. What changed was societal decay,” he added, resulting in more applause.

Ong pointed to the Washington, D.C. and Chicago as two cities with some of the strictest gun laws but also “the highest crime and murder rates.”

“If gun control actually did work, Washington, D.C. and Chicago would be the safest cities in your nation. But [they are] not, they have the toughest gun laws and the highest crime and murder rates,” he said.

Ong also defended Americans’ right to own so-called “assault rifles,” which are really just semi-automatic rifles. Citing a recent purchase of 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” by the Department of Homeland Security, he noted how the agency described the weapons as “suitable for personal defense use in close quarters.”

He went on: “Had the Koreans in the LA riots not had AR-15s and AK-47s with 30-round magazines — and Ruger 30s — their businesses would have burnt to the ground like all the other businesses in their neighborhoods. Theirs stood because they stood their ground.”

Driving a point home that many U.S. lawmakers don’t even seem to fully understand, the legal immigrant stated definitively that the Second Amendment’s purpose was not for hunting.

In closing, Ong quoted a famous statement by Judge Alex Kozinski in his dissent on the case of Silveira v. Lockye in 2002.

“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.”

Ong ended his testimony to applause from the audience.

I was wondering this: how many people in the church know about Orrin Porter Rockwell?