Miguel puts up a great post showing Ladd Everett quoting George Washington out of context.
Seems that old Gorgeous George would be yet another “Insurrectionist” “Guilty of Treason”.
Ladd likes malign people who note that an armed citizenry can fight back, and repel tyranny, but yet he’s quoting a British subject who rose up and commanded an army of British Subject to fight back a Tyrannical King. Ummm….
The most interesting thing is that he’s quoting a person he has nothing but contempt from. This also the same guy who constantly misquotes the Federalist papers.
You also see things like “Secular Humanists” quoting the bible out of context. What are they going for? I mean they hold utter contempt for the source, so if the source “Supports” them what do they gain?
I mean I could pour over sources I have contempt for and cherry pick out things they got right, where am I? I might have a smug “Gotcha Moment” (tho if I did some serious cherry-picking, I’m risking an embarrassing exposition), but what’s the value of a scoundrel, liar, or overall unreliable source that agrees with me?
Of course these are the people who also praise the Heller and McDonald case for “Taking Gun Bans” off the table…but still seek to ban guns, and argue that somehow the 2nd Amendment is the ONLY one that DOESN’T apply to the individual, and somehow a “Collective Right” exists.
I quote people I have open contempt for, because it shows how contemptuous they are.