How important is gun rights and the ability to
defend oneself from predators and an abusive government? Listen to an American citizen who escaped
from communist China and you’ll get an idea.
Lily Tang Williams immigrated to the United States
at age 24. She testified before the Colorado
State Legislature on the necessity of an armed citizenry. Here is an excerpt:
Why do you limit our fire arms only
have 15 round magazines? Do the criminals limit theirs? Does the government
limit theirs? If we use our guns primarily for self defense, I need as many
magazines as needed to defend my family and myself because I am a bad shot. It
seems not fair at all to limit law abiding citizens’ ability for self defense.
What if the shop owners only could fire 15 times during the famous LA riot?
What if the home owners ran out of the bullets during the looting after the
Hurricane Katrina? What happens to the ranchers near the border have to face a
big group of drug cartels who threat them? How about the famous cases of our
government gone wild: Ruby Ridge, Waco Texas, Athens Tennessee – a small town
in the U.S.A at the end of the World War Two, where the local dictators wanted
to highjack the election results with their guns, local residents organized and
armed themselves to take their town back.
I came to
the U.S. for freedom, including the freedom granted by the 2nd amendment: the
right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. When I held my own gun for
the first time in my life in this country, I felt empowered and for the first
time, I felt free.
Here is the full transcript:
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