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I Was a Victim of Violent Crime: Immigrant Behind Viral Testimony Explains Why He’s Pro-Gun

Jan. 31, 2013 2:35pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Who Is Henson Ong? Legal Immigrant Says He Was Victim of Violent Crime in the Phillipines

Henson Ong, who testified this week in defense of the Second Amendment, told TheBlaze his pro-gun ownership views came from a violent attack he and his family suffered in their native Philippines. (Image source: YouTube)

Henson Ong, the Connecticut resident and legal immigrant whose passionate defense of the Second Amendment drew applause at a legislative hearing this week, said his pro-gun ownership views were cemented after he and his family were the victims of violent crime in their native land.

Ong, of Waterbury, Conn., said he and his family immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines 13 years ago. He declined to provide many personal details, including his age, but told TheBlaze in a telephone interview it was that crime that prompted their move to the U.S.

“As a personal victim of violent crime, I can say that appeasement to criminals and disarming the innocent is not the solution,” Ong told TheBlaze. “If a violent criminal were to attack you and your family, the only answer, the only logical answer, is to defend oneself and eliminate the threat. That doesn’t necessarily mean killing, but it means stop the threat as quickly as possible.”

He added, “I do not want those rights, and the freedoms that come with the rights, eroded in my adopted country.”

Ong said he felt compelled to testify at the hearing amid nationwide calls for more gun control following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school massacre last month.

“What is the point of gun control? The common factor of all violence in society is the violent individual,” Ong said. “If the violent individual was not there you could have an arsenal and the arsenal would have harmed nobody.”

He said the Newtown tragedy has been hijacked by people driven by an agenda to restrict gun ownership.

“I believe much of this overreaction is illogical and irrational,” Ong said. “It is all emotion-based, and it is fanned by people who have an agenda, who have been waiting for an opportunity such as this.”

Ong said the enthusiastic response he got from the audience was an “encouraging” sign that “there is more support for freedom against the statist agenda of the current administration.”

“A disarmed population is subject to being victimized by their own government, and by those criminal elements who unfortunately as time goes on becomes part of the government, either directly or indirectly,” he said, referring to government corruption.

“If the population is disarmed, we are helpless. And if the Second Amendment rights are taken away, how long before the First Amendment rights are taken away? How do you enforce the taking away for the Second Amendment without violating the Fourth Amendment?” he asked. “This is a stand that must not fall.”

You can watch his initial statement that went viral here.

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Comments (59)

thevamprn
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 1:12pm
Here is another one of Congressional testimony from a woman who escaped the Texas Lubby’s shooting. Could you immagine being in such a helpless possition? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis

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another pucker
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:47pm
This is the kind if immigrants I love and want more of! It takes someone who has fled hell on earth to remind those of us who take our wonderful constitution for granite just how lucky we are.

I would also like to start putting this out there and will be calling my representatives. “If this “illegal” immigration crap goes forward we must insist that anyone, young or old who came here or was brought here and spent 1 minute or more in this country illegally you should never be able to acquire the right to vote in any election. Not city, county, state, or country! You have already shown your inability to care about the laws of this country. It would be vote’s bought by politicians of both sides. And not one should be able to receive Entitlements (ex. snap, wic, housing vouchers, obama phones etc.)
Let’s all by the DVD “They come to America” and pass it around to all our uninformed friends and family!
http://www.theycometoamerica.com/

XOXOXO

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breiten
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:56pm
Why you need guns for protection – Obama and UN joint agreement.

Thousands of poor Brazilian families are living in wretched conditions at make-shift refugee camps after being evicted from their homes at gunpoint by federal forces, some of whom were sporting United Nations logos, according to sources.
The massive operation, which left an estimated 7,500 or more people, including thousands of children, homeless was justified by authorities under the guise of creating an Indian reservation.
Towns literally have been wiped off the map, and no compensation was offered to the victims. About 400,000 acres of land were expropriated in the latest operation.
Residents in the Siua-Missu area in the state of Mato Grosso battled heavily armed federal police and military forces for weeks using sticks, rocks, Molotov cocktails and other crude weapons.
In the end, however, the powerful national government forces were overwhelming.

A little-known U.N. agreement dubbed the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People,” approved by the global body’s General Assembly in 2007, has been cited as a justification for expropriating the land.
While the U.S. originally rejected the controversial U.N. scheme, which purports to require the surrender of lands “traditionally” occupied by natives, President Obama signed on to it in late 2010.

http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/humans/refugees/news.php?q=1359552248

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Colorado7972
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:16pm
The LEGAL immigrants, much like our prior legal families to America, Know full well what happens when you are defenseless and tyranny and corruption run rampant. Why do you think so many LEGAL immigrants, heck even the illegal ones, are trying to get into America, not out of it. It’s because their countries of origin are so Liberal, corrupt , totalitarian, you name it….and with these always comes NO GUNS and NO RIGHTS!!!

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hades3
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:58pm
Those who oppose his views, will search his family history. If members of his family, including relatives have not crossed every “t” and dotted every “I” they could be subject too deportation.
Marxists live by Lenin’s motto. “You don’t debate an opponent, you destroy him.”
Ask the Chicago Obama Gangsters how well this works. They have been practicing it for years.

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