Gun Ownership a Civil Right and a Moral Duty

guardianlv.com ^ | 17 September, 2013 | Graham Noble

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If American citizens did not own firearms, the United States would not have been born in 1776. Likely, it would have eventually become an independent nation, but not for many more years – perhaps not for another hundred or more years. This fact is at the heart of the debate over whether or not private citizens have the right to own firearms: All governments eventually become uneasy with the idea that armed citizens have the power to control their own destiny. It need not even be a majority of the populace; only a small fraction of the population of the American colonies actually took up arms against British rule. The question of gun ownership, however, goes beyond this and even beyond the Second Amendment; gun ownership is a civil right. In a society that has no way to completely eliminate the possibility of those who wish to do harm from obtaining firearms, it is also a moral duty.

More than any other ethnic group, the black community should understand that the right to keep and bear arms is a civil right; segregation would not have been enforceable for as long as it was had blacks not been forbidden from going armed. The persecution they suffered would not have persisted; The Ku Klux Klan would have quickly melted away if faced with armed opposition, for example. The fact that, today, relatively few black Americans legally own guns demonstrates that – as a community – they have abdicated their free will and independence to the political Left; the very people who attempted to preserve slavery, then founded the Klan after slavery was abolished; the very people who, today, call them Uncle Tom’s

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Politically incorrect, but expressing what a great many Americans believe.