USA a “Shining City on a Hill” with Second Amendment

AmmoLand ^ | January 11, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

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The United States Constitution and the Second Amendment are shining examples of freedom and limitation on government power over much of the world.  The Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms are envied by millions of people in the rest of the world, very plausibly by hundreds of millions. They are particularly envied when the governments are known to be corrupt and common people are disrespected, intimidated, and lorded over. Cuba and Venezuela come to mind. An incident in Panama from 1989 is illuminating.

In 1989, this correspondent was working for the U.S. Army. Through a series of fortuitous events, I was assigned one of the posh residences on Ancon Hill, near Gorgas Army Hospital. As the U.S. economic embargo against the Noriega regime tightened the economic screws, the poorest people were suffering. Ancon Hill is next to the border of the old Panama Canal Zone. A couple of beggars managed to make it up to the residences to ask for work and food.

My policy was to require a little work and to give them a dollar or two and a couple of cans of food. One of them spoke pretty good English, and we were able to converse a bit about the state of affairs. He was an educated man, about 50, who was not happy with El Presidente Noriega. He opined the same situation could never happen in the United States.

“¿Por qué?” I asked, in my very bad Spanish.

“Because”, He said, “In the United States, everyone has guns. The Rifle Association will not let them take the guns.”

I was amazed. There was a poor Panamanian man who knew more than many Americans about the purposes of the Second Amendment. We had a good conversation.

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