Posted on 01/13/2006 9:24:06 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
The Second Amendment...
America's Only Homeland Security!
Be Ever Vigilant!
When the NRA speaks about 2nd Amendment rights, they're speaking specifically about rights that we Americans enjoy exclusively.
That's simply wrong.
Jefferson didn't write "that all Americans ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
Not every individual in the world is in a position in which he can freely exercise these rights. But he has the rights, regardless. That these rights are subject to frequent infringement by government doesn't mean that he doesn't have these rights. It just means that there are a lot of illegitimate govermnents in the world.
And that's precisely why the UN is so opposed to civilian ownership of firearms.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
The nations of Turkey, Russia, France, Spain, and all other despotic kingdoms, in the world, have an inherent right, when ever they please, to shake off the yoke of servitude, (though sanctified by the immemorial usage of their ancestors;) and to model their government, upon the principles of civil liberty.
- Alexander Hamilton
The great Thomas Jefferson could really only speak for American citizens with any true authority. It is very nice that he felt that everyone in the world deserved certain God-given rights...but those were really just words.
Our national sovereignty is the same reason we don't respect some crackpot, gun-grabbing, America-hating leader in the Middle East sandbox who has bad things to say about our precious RKBA...
~ Blue Jays ~
Rights aren't laws. They aren't legal constructs. They're meta-legal constructs. Part of the moral framework that motivates the law, or opposition to it.
Every man, woman, and child, everywhere, has the right to be free.
Regardless of what sort of thugocracy they happen to be living under at the moment.
Ask the people in San Francisco what is at the bottom of the "slippery slope".
5.56mm
Thanks, NRA.
Since the major cause of violent death on this planet during the 20th century was caused by governments, it is infinitely safer to have individuals armed against government, than to have governments armed against defenseless individuals.
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