Franklin Orth Quotes
We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, had purchased the killing rifle from an ad in the NRA Magazine, The American Rifleman. Congress was debating new gun control legislation that would restrict mail order gun sales. The NRA supported the modest gun control legislation as they had earlier {623081}. . The legislation passed with very heavy support. , the NRA would shift far to the right and would no longer support any reasonable gun legislation whatsoever, regardless of how reasonable.
Franklin Orth, Executive vice president, National Rifle Association, Statement in Support of Mail Order Control of Gun Sales, 1963
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He was advising the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution has, according to all Supreme Court decisions, never given the right to bear arms to individual citizens—only to the state militia. Nonetheless, most polls show Americans believe the 2nd Amendment applies to individual citizens:
The justice was referring to the fact that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, and that the Founding Fathers intended, that the Second Amendment applies to State militias and not to an individual's right to bear arms.
The National Rifle Association was Founded by men who were distressed that young men from the cities were so unskilled with firearms when the served in the Civil War that they thought that there should be an organization devoted to teaching the skilled use of firearms in case of another war. Frederick, the President, was himself a skilled marksman having won several of the shooting events in the Olympics. The officers and the organization in the early days and received free ammunition from the Federal Government with which to train and certify young men in shooting accuracy. The organization, alarmed at the high rage of gun accidents causing death and serious injury added gun safety to their program and this was followed by teaching and certifying Hunting Safety as well. Their vision was that marksmanship and safety through their courses and programs would be implemented by schools, camps, scouts, clubs and other intermediary organizations which were certified by the NRA.
This quotation is typical of the kind of pressure that is put on politicians who vote for gun control laws. Stafford made good on his threat. When Senator Giron voted for the gun control law, Stafford and the Pueblo Chieftain lead a petition for a recall election against the Senator.
Even though the research was done by the U. S. CDC (Communicable Disease Center), the finest public health research center in the world, it was still attacked by the National Rifle Association and many of their supporters in Congress. The response was so intense that in the appropriations for the CDC there was an amendment that required that Federal Money not be spent for “Gun Safety Research”. So Federal Health Agencies were actually barred by Congress from doing any research as to how guns can be used, stored and manufactured more safely.
In the early 18th century, things were very unsettled between Scotland & England with the succession of both countries in question. The result was the famous union of the two countries in 1707. At the time the Scottish Parliament wanted to intimidate the English as well as to be able to fend off English troops if things did not go well. The clause has much contemporary importance because it shows what a nation would do that wanted every man armed against powers which might restrict their freedom. The American Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention knew about this law. They even adopted other ideas from this law--{615975}. If the Founders had wanted every man armed as some modern gun control opponents maintain, they were brilliant drafters and would doubtless have written something like this. It supports the view that what was intended was not an armed nation but a nation where the states could organize “well ordered militias” and the Second Amendment resulted.
The “New World Order” is a “secret organization” which a number of conspiracy theorists believe is running much of the world behind the scenes and is planning to disarm all Americans as an early step in the takeover of America so they can have a dictatorial one world government. Jones is one of those believers.
The Southern Rebels who insisted on their right to have guns during Reconstruction, viciously denied that same right to the newly freed slaves. Sickles tried to remedy this, but the KKK and other terrorists intimidated most of the Blacks into not using the right that they had. Later, they would do that with the right to vote.
Most of the Republicans in the Senate, using the filibuster, blocked legislation making schools and streets safer by expanding the requirement for gun checking to keep mentally ill people and violent criminals from purchasing a gun. The legislation had been crafted by Republican and Democratic Senators and was supported by 90 percent of Americans including 80 percent of Republicans and the majority of hunters and gun owners. This was one of the rare instances where public opinion did not matter at all to the Congress, and while a majority of the Senators supported the legislation a significant minority was more in fear of the NRA and the Gun lobby than they were of the voters. To the Republican minority, the possibility of a mentally deranged, violent, convicted felon, should be allowed to buy a military style assault rifle or any other weapon at a gun show without anyone bothering to check his background was less desirable than requiring gun sellers to spend 3-5 minutes to check out the potential buyer.
Note that this was 4 years before the American Constitutional Convention and even longer before the American debate over the Bill of Rights and the 2nd Amendment. But, the importance of the right to bear arms was not an American invention. Van der Capellen was talking about it and writing about it before the Americans considered it. It is not known whether or not any of the Americans knew about van der Capellen and his view on citizen armament.
- Born: May 11, 1907
- Died: January 4, 1970
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- Profession: Attorney, Non-profit Organization Executive
Franklin Lewis Orth was Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 1959 until his death. In the 1960s, Orth was influential during debates on gun control in the United States. Orth also served as President of the United States Olympic Committee from April 1969 until his death.
