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First Principle: Laws That Forbid Bearing of Arms Serve To Encourage Not Prevent Homicides
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms… serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Cesare Beccaria
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Tagged Armed Man, Arms, Attack, Carry, Cesare Beccaria, Confidence, Encourage, First Principles, Forbid, Homicides, Law, Prevent, Unarmed
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First Principles: The Right of the People To Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed
“The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” – James … Continue reading
A Vancouverite Current
The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth
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Chinook of the North
My apologies for falling asleep before writing the poem for yesterday’s challenge. The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 10 is to write a poem that references a local weather term. After some thought and discussion, I have chose a type … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Arms, Beach, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Canuck, Chinook, City, Cloud, Coastie, Cold, Cold Spell, Color, Companion, Company, Conversation, Dawn, Devotion, Fraser Canyon, Friend, Funny, Gray, Her, Human, Indulgence, Lady, Laughs, Love, Lovely, Lover, Magic, Midnight, Monkey, Moon, Mountain, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, North, Ocean Child, Orographic, Pacific Ocean, Peace, Photograph, Pineapple Breeze, Playful, Poem, Poetry, Rain Shadow, Rainbow, Ramparts, Safe, Shine, Smile, Snow Eater, Snowbird, Snowfall, Spawn, Star, Story, Sweet, Teasure, Term, Tim Horton, Two Nations, United States, Weather, Whisper, Wind, Witness, Worry
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First Principles: It Is Essential To Preserve Liberty That All People Possess Arms and Be Taught How To Use Them
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Republican Principle, Arms, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Select Milita, Taught, The People, Use
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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Necessary That People Keep Arms and Are Trained In Using These
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-republican, Arms, Essential, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Select Militia, The People, Trained
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Scraps of Poetry
Memories are made as such as these. Scraps of Poetry by Michael Romani You ask me what is about you That makes this feel so true You smile knowing That I wish for a way of showing Heartbeat is slowing … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Charm, Connection, Dance, Eyes, Feel, First Kiss, Full Moon, heartbeat, Learn, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Safe, Show, Smile, Soul, Spell, True, Walk, Words
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First Principles: We Should Trust In God Not Political Manipulation
“Their arts may be more dangerous than their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.” – Samuel Adams (1776)
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Tagged Arms, First Priniciples, God, Live Free Or Die, Manipulation, Politics, Reliance, Renounce, Samuel Adams, Separation, Trust
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