Book of Luke Quotes
When a strong man armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace
Quote often cited by gun enthusiasts as a Biblical urging to be armed for self-protection and protection of the home. Likewise they argue that gun control is not only bad policy but against the will of God.
New Testament, Book of Luke, 22:36
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This article was published under the name of “A Lover Of Peace” but is generally attributed to Paine. He was publishing in Pennsylvania which had a large Quaker, pacifist population and Paine was urging them to consider being armed.
She told constituents that she would try and implement some gun control measures. She, later in her career explained to critics of Congressional inaction via gun control--see {640804}.
He was discussing the genetic atrocities, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the murdering of scientists that had been justified by governments for national security reasons especially the murder of Russian geneticists by Stalin in Russia.
Many American leaders wanted to comply with and enforce the Indian treaties, but the remoteness made it difficult. There were always those whites who did not want to be restricted by Indian treaties who took advantage of the situation when there was a leader like Clinton who wanted to enforce the treaties. However in many cases, the American leadership really did not want to enforce the treaties and in some cases, as with President Andrew Jackson, wanted to abrogate the treaties with the Indians.
Note that he would require a level of education for a citizen to possess weapons. In America it has been suggested that gun training be required as a condition, but the notion of general education is quite different. He was executed for rebellion at age 29. However, a number of his followers went on to leadership positions in the reforms that followed.
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.
The Gospel according to Luke (Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Λουκᾶν, romanized: Euangélion katà Loukân), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts; together they account for 27.5% of the New Testament.
