A gun rights bill is getting the typical treatment from Republicans on Capitol Hill ... if you can't make your argument with well reasoned logic ... lie. Story out of Washington:
A gun-rights bill introduced at the Capitol on Friday includes six quotes from America’s Founding Fathers about the importance of guns to democracy.
The problem is, half of those quotes are fake.
The measure, sponsored by state Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, would create penalties for public officials who block people from owning or buying guns. About one page of the four-page bill is dedicated to quotes from the Founding Fathers on gun ownership.
But at least three of the quotes – attributed to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton – aren’t real.
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty, teeth, and keystone under independence,” is one quote that House Bill 2975 attributes to George Washington.
Nope, say researchers at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate.
Also included in the bill’s long introductory section is a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson: “Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.”
Wrong again.
A quote the bill attributes to Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers also appears to be something Hamilton didn’t really exactly say. Both left-leaning sources (Gawker) and more conservative ones (The Federalist Papers Project) say Hamilton didn’t say, “The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” Cont.
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