The demagogic efforts of the Liberal/Progressive political regime of Barack Hussein Obama to find some mechanism to attenuate or eliminate the Second Amendment right "of the people to bear" arms, without allowing a vote "by the people" on whether to amend the Constitution pursuant to the procedures provided by the Founding Fathers, raise many questions, including:
Would modern Liberal/Progressives who are so
willing to strip this generation of Americans of our Second Amendment rights,
tell Henry Ward Beecher's sister,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, that she really should not have a
Constitutional Second Amendment right to have a gun in the house while she was
writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin," or after its publication?
Would they take away the arms of the
anti-slavery Americans who risked their lives to save the lives of escaping
slaves through the "underground railroad?"
What about anti-slavery Americans in the South
-- should they have had their Second Amendment rights taken from them to bear
arms to defend themselves in the years before, during, and after the
Civil War when they were at great risk of harm?
What about John Brown? If anybody gave evidence of being mad as a hatter, an utter
fanatic loosed from reason, it was John Brown. But would modern-day
Liberal/Progressives say that America would be a better place if "strict
gun laws" had been enforced and prevented John Brown from having guns when
he raided the Harper's Ferry Arsenal to get guns to fight slavery?
It would be difficult if not impossible to find such a
Liberal/Progressive. Yet, today, the same Liberal/Progressives who celebrate
John Brown as a hero who stood against the tyranny of slavery, gun in hand,
bellow, pound their breasts, weep tears, demagogue, that we must
attenuate or limit the right to bear arms guaranteed to all Americans in
the Second Amendment.
As is their wont,
Liberal/Progressives lament that we must limit the Second Amendment Right
to bear arms to "protect the children." How many black children of
slaves were "protected" without guns? How many of their parents were
freed from the tyranny of slavery without arms?
If Liberal/progressives of
today would not strip the Second Amendment right of Americans to bear arms of
that era who opposed the tyranny of government as expressed in slavery -- and,
remember, slavery was government policy North and South, after all, even upheld
by the high priests of the judiciary up to an including the lawyers on the
Supreme Court, e.g., Dred Scott Decision-- then those
Liberal/Progressives should not attenuate or strip away the Second Amendment
right to bear ams of Americans of this era who are willing to defend
the nation against the slavery of political totalitarianism.
Every American veteran has
sworn to "defend the Constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic." Every American veteran knows when the
obligations of that oath end -- never. Every American ought to live that
same oath if we are not to submit Americans of this and future generations to
the slavery of political totalitarianism.
One of America's greatest
military heroes, General Norman Schwarzkopf, who lead our forces against
the tyranny of Sadaam Hussein and who died most recently,
succinctly stated an enduring truth:
"Some things are worth living for. Some things are worth dying for. One of those things is freedom."
Freedom. That is what the Founding Fathers
created for us and bequeathed to us by force of arms against a tyrant abusing
his office and power, King George III of England. The Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment right "of
the people to bear arms" knowing how fragile freedom is, and how awful
tyranny is.
The Founding Fathers
enshrined that right of the people to bear arms not as "an executive
order," not as a law," not as anything which could be taken away as
temporary political winds might blow this way or that depending on who held
governmental power through the ages. Rather, the Founding Fathers made the
Second Amendment Right of the people to bear arms an enduring right inuring to
all future generations of Americans, as long as the nation existed or the
Constitution itself was not amended to eliminate or attenuate the Second
Amendment as the Founding Fathers provided -- that is, only by a vote of the
people in three-fourths of the States to ratify any amendment.
Now, Liberal/Progressives,
from Barack Hussein Obama down through
Joe Biden to Harry Reid in the Senate and
Nancy Pelosi in the House, want to diminish, attenuate, limit,
weaken, and render impotent if possible, the Second Amendment right to
bear arms, by "executive order," or "statute" or other
means, without a vote of the people themselves on the question of whether to
amend the Constitution.
Simply stated:If Americans of this
generation should allow the right to bear arms to be diminished or destroyed
without following the amendment process provided by the Founding Fathers, they
will be allowing themselves and future generations to become
"subjects" rather than "citizens," no longer
free Americans under a government existing by the "consent of the
governed" but, rather, subject people existing by the consent of the
government.
It is a truism, proved true by history itself,
that those who create freedom arm the
people to protect the people from the government; for example, the American
Founding Fathers. Those who create totalitarianism disarm the
people in order to protect the government from the people; for example, Hitler,
Stalin, Mao, the Saudi Islamic Wahabists and
all Islamist governments
under Shari'ia Law, Sadaam Hussein,
and Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid,
Nancy Pelosi and the modern Liberal/Progressive Democrat Party
politicians and members who would disarm the American people they would
govern.
Gen. Schwarzkopf was
right: "Some things are worth fighting for. Some things are worth dying
for. One of those things is freedom." Slaves, whether literal or political
under totalitarian all-intrusive governments, do not have guns -- or freedom.
Thank God and the Founding
Fathers that Americans still have arms, and freedom--and will as long as they
have the courage to fight for them, and die for them, if necessary.
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