Posted on 03/21/2002 5:19:13 AM PST by sinclair
Right to bear arms should be defended.
by Sabrina Kahn
March 19, 2002
In the spirit of Sarah Brady, Hillary Clinton, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin (if he is still in the country), and Rosie O’Donnell, let’s state the liberal mantra and get it out of the way! The Second Amendment only refers to state’s rights to maintain militias. Guns don’t protect law-abiding citizens. Societies with strict gun control have decreased murder rates. Reality paints a different picture.
The founding fathers wanted to protect individual personal freedom from a powerful national government, thus creating the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment is considered a personal and inalienable right. The “militia” referred to is drawn from the whole body of people. It was dependent on the individual right to keep and bear arms to even exist. Each time the word “people” is used throughout the Bill of Rights it refers to individuals. Each individual (or one of the people) is entitled to the rights expressed in these amendments.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a constitutional scholar and professor at the University of Tennessee, states, “The Second Amendment protects the same sort of individual right that other parts of the Bill of Rights provide.” No individual has the right to restrict other individuals personal freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Previously, Ms O’Donnell was receiving death threats. She must have bought a can of mace or a pocketknife to keep in the spirit of her anti-gun philosophy. On the contrary, she hired armed, male security guards to protect her. She’s a multi-millionaire; she can hire her own personal self-defense team at her leisure.
Ms O’Donnell’s interview with Tom Selleck also demonstrates her hypocrisy. She publicly chastised Selleck’s NRA membership taking full advantage of her right to freedom of speech. She stated repeatedly that Selleck is responsible for every action committed by the NRA because he agreed to do an ad on the NRA’s behalf.
However, Ms O’Donnell has no problem promoting and acting in commercials for K-Mart, where a person may purchase a rifle. Historically, gun control has been detrimental. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938. From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and other ethnic groups, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and annihilated. In 1938 Adolph Hitler stated, “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”
These numbers should interest groups concerned with peace, tranquility, and liberty.
Ireland and Scotland have very strict gun restrictions; subsequently, have higher murder rates than countries with fewer restrictions. Scotland Yard is in desperate need of more criminal detectives due to violent crime thriving on the streets of London. In the spirit of Charlton Heston, Tom Selleck, James Woods, and Wayne La Pierre, lets express the conservative perspective.
Criminals prefer unarmed victims. Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my gun. Race, gender, and gun control are the tools of the liberal to divide us. The freedoms embedded within the Bill of Rights gives inalienable rights to each individual American and should be defended at all costs.
More newspapers should print such op/eds, aye?
Great line!!
Then raise this question in every public forum you can - and get the overwhelming majority of Americans who are middle-class and neither black nor Hispanic - thinking:
"When was the last time anyone on your street was shot to death?
Because, if you're like me, nobody's ever been shot to death on your street in the entire 26 years you lived there! I'm 41 and middle-class - and nobody on any street I've lived on has been shot. And putting the real "risk" in perspective that way among the nonminority middle class is what HCI fears most! Believe me, this issue drives antigun nuts up a wall when it is raised.
So raise this issue on talk shows and in letters to the editor - and in back-fence conversations.
Scandals of antigun politicians - from Kalifornia to Manhattan!
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