Posted on 01/11/2013 5:22:21 AM PST by Bull Man
The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an extension of the natural right to self-defense and a hallmark of personal sovereignty. It is specifically insulated from governmental interference by the Constitution and has historically been the linchpin of resistance to tyranny. Yet the progressives in both political parties stand ready to use the coercive power of the government to interfere with the exercise of that right by law-abiding persons because of the gross abuse of that right by some crazies in our midst.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, he was marrying the nation at its birth to the ancient principles of the natural law that have animated the Judeo-Christian tradition in the West. Those principles have operated as a brake on all governments that recognize them by enunciating the concept of natural rights.
As we have been created in the image and likeness of God the Father, we are perfectly free just as He is. Thus, the natural law teaches that our freedoms are pre-political and come from our humanity and not from the government. As our humanity is ultimately divine in origin, the government, even by majority vote, cannot morally take natural rights away from us. A natural right is an area of individual human behavior — like thought, speech, worship, travel, self-defense, privacy, ownership and use of property, consensual personal intimacy — immune from government interference and for the exercise of which we don’t need the government’s permission.
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If we don’t continually “remind” these progressives what our liberties are, they will take every one of them away. That nasty old constitution is a real hindrance to them.
The judge make to only statement that should be made about the 2nd amendment.
We should stay out of the weeds and stick to the main point.
The left refuse to acknowledge the reason for the 2nd.
They do, because they are the tyrants that the framers were talking about.
By the way, you notice when you make this argument with one of them, it is like holding garlic in front of vampires.
exactly
HERE COME DA JUDGE!
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When the backed Harry Reid I canceled my membership.
IMHO Wayne LaPierre needs to step aside. When he goes to the lame stream media he comes across nervous and rattled and it comes out all wrong.
The NRA IMHO is in desperate need of a orator with amazing skills that is unflappable.
Alan West for the Head of the NRA, or at least their main Press Spokesman.
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm
Federalist Papers # 10
The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (continued)
Daily Advertiser
Thursday, November 22, 1787
[James Madison]
Alan West for the Head of the NRA, or at least their main Press Spokesman.
That would make heads explode.
I’d even open my wallet to the NRA again if they did that.
I wish Andrew didn’t have the same last name as that witch Janet, because the title throws me off.
The principal reason the colonists won the American Revolution is that they possessed weapons equivalent in power and precision to those of the British government. If the colonists had been limited to crossbows that they had registered with the king’s government in London, while the British troops used gunpowder when they fought us here, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have been captured and hanged.We also defeated the king’s soldiers because they didn’t know who among us was armed, because there was no requirement of a permission slip from the government in order to exercise the right to self-defense. (Imagine the howls of protest if permission were required as a precondition to exercising the freedom of speech.) Today, the limitations on the power and precision of the guns we can lawfully own not only violate our natural right to self-defense and our personal sovereignties, they assure that a tyrant can more easily disarm and overcome us.
The historical reality of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms is not that it protects the right to shoot deer. It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and it protects the right to shoot at them effectively, with the same instruments they would use upon us. If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had had the firepower and ammunition that the Nazis had, some of Poland might have stayed free and more persons would have survived the Holocaust.
Most people in government reject natural rights and personal sovereignty. Most people in government believe that the exercise of everyone’s rights is subject to the will of those in the government. Most people in government believe that they can write any law and regulate any behavior, not subject to the natural law, not subject to the sovereignty
If Washington and Jefferson had been limited to bows and arrows and had to register even those, Napolitano is correct, the Revolution would never have been won.
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I thought the Obama Administration outlawed that term in his last administration??
Obama has that effect on people AFTER their little visit to the White Hut.
Have you been to oathkeepers.org, bro (or sis)? In any event, there are a lot of us who agree with you.
Rather intriguing that the modern Democrat party has adopted the same methods as Louis XIV to suppress dissent and resistance ~ they've got ObamaKKKare ~ it's so expensive they demand full control of your wallet, even the pitiful change purses of the poor, and they want to tell you when and how to get a proctocological exam!
Talk about intrusive!~
The second amendment advises each and every one of us that we are, in this country, nobility ~ with all the rights and privileges any nobleman ever had ~ to sit on a jury, to sue in court for personal damages, to vote, to attend meetings of government officials, or kings, to pass on laws in designated bodies, to tend to our own business, to own, to buy, to sell, to breath the air ~ BTW, this stuff isn't just late 1700s English common law ~ this goes all the way back to ancient Sumer where the rich man may not use the authority of the government to force the poor man to sell him his land nor his vines. Our current USSC violated that one in the CT case ~ they continue to punt when they find the intrusive ObamaKKKare to be merely a tax!
We all have a right to self-defense ~ and it is getting near the time when the oppressors will need to be deposed ~ and dealt with like the criminal trasy they really are.
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