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Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2022-04-12): President Joe Biden returned this week to his claim that the Second Amendment was originally understood and applied to ban the private ownership of cannons. It is not just an embarrassing repetition of a false claim but threatens to reduce his own gun control measures to little more than cannon fodder on a historical perspective. [...] It does sound bizarre because it is factually and legally untrue. I have received calls from media for years about this claim and it does not improve by repetition. Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2020-09-23): In October of 1824, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended a board meeting of the University of Virginia, which would open the following spring. Jefferson and Madison had spent not a little time thinking about individual liberties. But minutes from the meeting show that their new school would not extend the right to bear arms to its red-brick grounds. [...] Many quotes about the relationship of private firearm ownership and freedom — often deployed online by gun rights proponents — have been misattributed to Jefferson, or misconstrued. Jefferson is widely credited with saying, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it," but archivists at Monticello have found no evidence he made this statement. He is on record has having written, "Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks" in a letter to his nephew. But historian Saul Cornell thinks Jefferson was most likely contemplating slave rebellion, not the need for self defense from criminals.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2023-12-23): - Occasionally this quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson is given with the following citation: Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950). The publication exists, but the quote does not. And the editor's correct name is Julian P. Boyd, not C.J. Boyd. In other cases, this quote is added to the end of a proven Jefferson quote "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms..." Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776, Jefferson Papers 344. What he actually said, in context of the Virginia Constitution drafts is: [...] Other quotes [edit]- I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom. [...] - Falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson; first attributed in The Southern Partisan (1992), p. 3. Not found prior to 1992; debunked in D. J. Mulloy, American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement (2004), p. 115.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2010-10-14): Comments: We currently have no evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it" or any of its listed variations.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2012-05-01): A letter in today’s Financial Times draws attention to a shopworn "quote" that’s often attributed to Thomas Jefferson (right) and used to buttress arguments for a broad application of the right to bear arms (or brandish automatic weapons). The letter-writer (Dennis Oveis of Tampa, Fla.) takes a previous letter-writer to task for invoking what that previous letter-writer called a "timeless quote from Thomas Jefferson." The alleged statement is: [...] We currently have no evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote ‘The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it’ or any of its listed variations. Wikipedia’s entry on the Second Amendment says the quotation is one of many misattributed to Jefferson. It says the quote can’t be found before 2007, the year it surfaced in a book by Matt Carson, On A Hill They Call Capital: A Revolution Is Coming.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2013-02-25): "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." — George Washington "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." — Thomas Jefferson "As a result of the war, corporations have become enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its rule by preying upon the prejudice of the people, until all wealth is concentrated in a few hands, and the republic destroyed. " — Abraham Lincoln [...] The Jefferson quote about the Second Amendment has been trotted out frequently in recent months in the gun control debate. Like many spurious quotes in circulation it sounds legitimate, and in this case it pretty accurately reflects Jefferson’s thinking. But as Monticello.org, the website of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, points out it’s not found anywhere in Jefferson’s voluminous papers. In fact, it didn’t surface until 1989.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2013-03-03): America’s gun lobby says private ownership of firearms prevents tyranny. That’s why the Founding Fathers guaranteed the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment. The first part of that argument makes little sense and is easily put aside. I think the second part is wrong too. The Second Amendment wasn’t meant to guarantee the right to bear arms (however it’s used today). But understanding why requires a bit of history and a bit of thought. [...] Today, however, a bunch of average Joe’s with guns might, at best, form a scattered guerrilla movement, not a "well regulated militia." So the portion of gun owners falling outside the Second Amendment’s protection has soared from almost none to almost all. In other words, the landscape has changed, and the Second Amendment, by its own terms, should offer almost no protection to modern gun ownership.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2013-01-04): (CNN) -- Thomas Jefferson may not have penned the Second Amendment, but the paradoxical Founding Father comes galloping into the present whenever there's a gun debate. Quotes attributed to him and tied to the right to bear arms litter the social sphere. But how did a man 200-plus years past his prime become today's gun-debate darling? [...] For the gun rights advocates who love this line, the good news is that Jefferson did quote it from someone else. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation's website, Monticello.org, has an entire section featuring "spurious" quotations attributed to Jefferson, including this one. It's a passage from Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria's "Essay on Crimes and Punishments." [...] In the meantime, let's get these gun laws settled right quick. This quote by Thomas Jefferson is the best. #Seriously pic.twitter.com/PLL6OqAOaJ — Kristy Lynn (@HeartSpring17) April 15, 2013 "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2023-09-29): —Thomas Jefferson, 1788 "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but inform their discretion."
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2024-06-15): In June 2024, Snopes received an email from a reader asking about a quote purportedly originating from Founding Father and third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson. The reader's email displayed a quote meme posted on X by @SunIslandMusic in November 2023 claiming Jefferson once said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." The meme displayed a watermark for an online user with the handle @ChristiChat. [...] On Oct. 14, 2010, Anna Berkes, a manager for public services and collections development with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, published a page about the quote on the foundation's website, Monticello.org. Berkes wrote, "We currently have no evidence that Thomas Jefferson said or wrote, 'The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it' or any of its listed variations." The only variation of the quote Berkes mentioned on the page read, "The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late." We located other similar variations in several sources but none of them credibly linked the quote to Jefferson.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2012-12-21): The Constitution of the United States was amended to protect the individual rights of citizens to bear arms for security. There is no language in the constitution referring to "hunting" or a "sporting purpose." The reason for the right to keep and bear arms is to protect individual liberty from both foreign and domestic threats; and perhaps most importantly, against a tyrannical government. In a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." [...] But the right guaranteed by the Second Amendment carries with it certain responsibilities, and there are commonsense steps we can take right now to protect our children and keep our communities safe. For instance, we can close the loopholes in the background check system that make it too easy for criminals and other dangerous people to buy guns — an idea that has the support of 90 percent of people in the United States, by the way.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2013-01-11): The most popular comment on a recent story about gun control featured a purported quotation from Thomas Jefferson. More than 2,000 votes pushed it to the top. [...] The Jefferson quotation’s emphasis on battling the government caught the attention of reader David McSwain, a gun owner and Second Amendment supporter from Charlotte, North Carolina. "I don’t think the sentiment is out of line with Jefferson’s thinking in view of his other verifiable statements such as ‘a little rebellion now and then is a good thing,’ etc.," he said. "Yet I think Jefferson would reject the ultraright modern day belief that armed rebellion will be needed in the near future against a socialist, unconstitutional federal government."
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2014-04-13): Many of the "quotes" frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the third president of the U.S. — are total nonsense. [...] There is no evidence that Jefferson ever said this. Frederick Douglass, James Buchanan, and William Henry Harrison all did say it, though. [...] Yeah, no, Jefferson probably never said this. It was a tertiary anecdote from the Reverend Ethan Allen, essentially the email forwards of the 19th century. Its authenticity is highly questionable.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it." (Viral Quote, 2019-10-16)
Evidence (2016-05-06): In October of 1824, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended a board meeting of the University of Virginia, which would open the following spring. Jefferson and Madison had spent not a little time thinking about individual liberties. But minutes from the meeting show that their new school would not extend the right to bear arms to its red-brick grounds. [...] Many quotes about the relationship of private firearm ownership and freedom—often deployed online by gun rights proponents—have been misattributed to Jefferson, or misconstrued. Jefferson is widely credited with saying, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it," but archivists at Monticello have found no evidence he made this statement. He is on record has having written, "Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks" in a letter to his nephew. But historian Saul Cornell thinks Jefferson was most likely contemplating slave rebellion, not the need for self defense from criminals.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-07-29): The man in the video is Marou Amadou, Niger’s former Minister of Justice, according to Misbar. The original video featuring Amadou was published on Facebook in December 2021, making it predate the recent coup in Niger.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-03): FACT CHECK: Viral Video Purporting To Show Niger’s Minister Of Finance Crying Is Misleading A video shared on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, purports to show Niger’s Minister of Finance Ahmat Jidoud crying after being told he has 48 hours to explain the country’s missing finances and stolen money or face execution by firing squad. [...] "The Niger minister of finance has been given 48hrs by the military, after a coup overthrow, to explain the country’s missing finances, the country’s finances and stolen money or face execution by firing squad," the X video’s caption purports. The video has been viewed over four million times as of writing.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-11): Did the leaders of the coup d'etat in Niger threaten to shoot the Finance Minister if he didn't account for the missing money his government wasted - and was he shown crying in a video? No, that's not true; this video is an old recording from two years ago of a different Nigerian official and has nothing to do with the coup the country is currently witnessing. [...] "This is Niger's Finance Minister, he was given 48 hours to account for the money lost or face execution by shooting" [...] The junta, which took power in Niger on July 26, did not ask Finance Minister Ahmat Jidoud to account for the wasted money or face death by shooting. The video used in the post is of the former Justice minister Marou Amadou published on Facebook on Dec. 27, 2021, showing the outgoing Justice Minister crying as he thanks President Mahamadou Issoufou for trusting him with the post after the country elected a new president, and a new government was being formed.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-02): Many social media accounts have been sharing a video of a man crying in front of the cameras, claiming that it show Niger's finance minister after the junta gave him "48 hours" to explain "missing" money in the state budget. [...] A video published on July 29 and viewed more than 10 million times on Twitter shows a man crying in front of the cameras and holding his face in his hands. The person who shared the video claims it shows Niger's finance minister being ordered by the junta to explain what happened to the "missing money" from public funds. "The army has given him 48 hours [...] to explain the country's failing finances, otherwise he will face execution by a firing squad," reads the caption. [...] Therefore, this video does not show Niger’s finance minister crying because the junta threatened to kill him if he did not explain where the public money was. Instead, the video was taken in 2021 when the former justice minister paid tribute to Niger's former president.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2024-02-24): A video clip showing a man shedding tears while delivering a speech has surfaced online with a claim that it shows the ex-finance Minister of Niger Republic crying over failure to account for government’s spending. [...] Video shows Nigerien minister of Finance crying over failure to account for public spending. [...] The claim that the viral video shows Nigerien minister of Finance crying after being forced to account for public spending is FALSE; findings indicate that the video has been online since 2021 and is unrelated to the recent coup d’état in the country.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-02): FACT CHECK: Is Video of Niger’s Finance Minister Crying Over execution threat true? A video has been circulating on Facebook and YouTube claiming that the Nigerien Finance Minister was crying over money laundering allegation. He was said to have been arrested by the military in the country and threatened with execution if he failed to give an account of state finances. The video surfaced amid the coup plot […] A video has been circulating on Facebook and YouTube claiming that the Nigerien Finance Minister was crying over money laundering allegation.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-22): Niger’s Finance Minister Facing Firing Squad After Coup? Fact Emerges - Ahmat Jidoud, Niger’s ex-finance minister, is not the man shedding tears in a widely-circulated social media video - Social media users posting the video erroneously claimed it shows Jidoud weeping following the coup in Niger in July - The video, however, is old, and the individual crying is Marou Amadou, Niger’s former justice minister [...] "Finance Minister of Niger Republic weeps after being reportedly told by new military junta to account for all the stolen money of the country in the next 48 hours or face execution by firing squad." [...] But does it show Niger’s finance minister crying after he was given 48 hours to account for the country’s stolen money or face a firing squad? A fact-checking platform investigated the claim.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-09): A video shared on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, purports to show the French Embassy in Niger being attacked amid a recent coup. [...] "Things are getting out of hand in #Niger republic. The Embassy of #FRANCE in #NIGER REPUBLIC attacked by Niger people. The anger against France in this country and how they have impoverished Africans is something of great concern. Though this type of attack is uncalled for," the X video, viewed nearly 60,000 times, purports. A large building can be seen burning in the video. [...] Likewise, additional photos of the party’s headquarters shared to EPA Images show cars that had been torched by supporters of the recent coup parked outside the building. (RELATED: Viral Video Purporting To Show Niger’s Minister Of Finance Crying Is Misleading)
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-09): A viral post shared on Instagram purports Niger’s military said the U.S. should keep their aid and "give it to their millions of homeless people." [...] "The United States of America threatens to withhold aid to Niger due to the military takeover, coup d’etat. Niger Military says they should keep their aid and give it to their millions of Homeless people in the United States of America. Charity begins at home," the Instagram post, which has received over 20,000 likes, purports. The post includes side-by-side photos of Biden and Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani. [...] In addition, the White House has neither released statements responding to the claim via its website nor its verified social media accounts. Likewise, Biden has not publicly commented on the claim via his personal or government X accounts. (RELATED: Viral Video Purporting To Show Niger’s Minister Of Finance Crying Is Misleading)
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-03): A video circulating on Facebook claims that it shows the Niger Finance Minister crying for facing accusations of fraud after the coup. In the video, we can see a man crying on camera before speaking into a microphone. The posts sharing this video are captioned, "Niger Finance Minister Reportedly Burst Into Tears After Being Given 48 Hours By The Military Junta To Account For The Country's Wealth In His Care or Face Firing Squad." The video is also being widely shared across other social media platforms with similar narratives. [...] The same video was also posted on X (formerly Twitter) on December 29, 2021. The caption, in Arabic, reads, "The crying of the former Minister of Justice (2011-2021), Mr. Maro Amadou, during his praise of the former presidents of Niger, especially the former President of the Republic, Muhammadu Issoufou, with whom he worked for (10) years as Minister of Justice, is causing controversy on social media." [...] An old and unrelated video of former Nigerien Minister of Justice Marou Amadou from 2021 has been incorrectly shared as the current Nigerien Finance Minister crying after being asked "to account for lots of stolen money or face execution by firing squad" amid the recent military takeover. Therefore, we have marked the claim as false.
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-08): Two videos circulated on Chinese social media after the recent coup in Niger with claims that one shows Niger’s soldiers and the other the country’s finance minister crying on camera. [...] The second clip showing a crying man has gone viral all over the internet. It was shared with the claim that he is Niger’s finance minister facing possible execution. [...] Weeping man footage is old; it does not show Niger’s ex-finance minister
Claim: purports to show Niger's Minister of Finance crying (Video, 2023-07-29)
Evidence (2023-08-02): A video has been circulating on Facebook and YouTube claiming that the Nigerien Finance Minister was crying over money laundering allegation. [...] The video has been shared multiple times on Facebook with the caption "Niger Republic’s alleged finance minister, Ahmat Jiroud after being told by the military government to account for the country’s stolen funds or face execution in 48 hours." [...] Based on available data, we can confirm that the claim that the Nigerien Minister of Finance, Ahmat Jidoud has been arrested is misleading. The video in circulation is that of the former Minister of Justice, Marou Amadou.