Our Rights Will Live On
posted by BeerslingerIn an historic decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, they have upheld our INDIVIDUAL rights to keep and bear arms, stating that the Washington D.C. ban on firearms is unconstitutional.
This is one of the most important decisions of our lifetime. If not because it protects only our rights to bear arms, but it says that the Bill Of Rights shall not be infringed. The problem is that if one right, guaranteed by the constitution can be taken away from us, then other rights can be taken away also.
More to the point, the second amendment is the one that ensured all the rest. You see, in history, there has never been a population armed with rifles, intent to resist, that has been able to be suppresses by an oppressive government. This means that as long as we have the right to bear arms, we also have the right to resist injustice and stand up for those that cannot stand up for themselves; in other words ensure our liberty.
Freedom is not freedom if it is controlled by someone else. Freedom is only freedom if you grasp it with both hands, and refuse to let it go up to and including at the cost of your life.
If you still have your doubts, think of the worst despots, fascistic, dictators, and tyrants of the 20th century. Let me give you some examples: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Slobodan Milosevic, Augusto Pinochet, Ibi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, Enver Hoxa, Nicolae Ceausescu, Che Guevara. What do all of these men have in common? Upon assuming power, they all took dramatic steps to limit the ownership of firearms by the body politic. Many of them armed revolutionaries, but never have they armed civilians.
It only makes sense though. If you are planning to strip a group of people of their rights, property and liberty, who wants them in any kind of condition to resist?
In the coming months, we will see hundreds of smaller cases contesting our right to own different types of firearms, attempts to limit particular firearms in certain areas, and expansion of rights in the forms of fully automatic weapons and silencers. Don’t let these suits scare you. Whether or not they are enacted or turned down should be a state’s issue. However the greater right is ensured.
Please watch these events carefully. They will have far reaching repercussions. I truly believe that great amounts of good will come from this ruling.
I’m sure that many of you still have questions. Many of you may disagree with my opinions on this matter. I want to state openly that I respect the opinions of those that do not agree. So I am making this offer: If any of you have questions that you would like answers to, if you agree or disagree with the supreme courts ruling, or if you would like more information about my personal standpoint on firearms, write in. Please let us know what you think of this issue. However, if you write in on this matter, please expect that I will comment on your opinion, but I promise I will do it with intellectual thought and an attempt at kindness.
God Bless America.
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June 26th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
They actually had a british (now american) commentator on Fox news today talking with one of the handgun activist groups that work to ban hand guns in the US. The commentator stated first “this must be a big set back for your grou”
“Yes it is, but we will continue to work to stop the needless murders by handguns.”
The next thing I heard was brilliant. The british commentator says “I’m originally from the UK where handguns are banned, while none of us have that, we also have 5 times the property theft and breakin of the United States, what do you say to that?”
The activist says “Well you also have a lower death rate by hand guns.”
Fox News: “But we have a higher crime rate”
Activist: “We want to preserve life, if you get robbed, at least you’re alive.”
WTF!?!?!?! Seriously, I can’t believe we have these wack-jobs around that would rather you get robbed, beaten down and not have anyway to defend yourself….
June 30th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
You live in the Bush World…which you have no rights…because you are asleep and this is all his dream…..well wake up will ya.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Well the answer is not Barak Obama either. The answer is a Libertarian view of the Constitution. And that’s what you’ll get here more often than not.
But, I would apreciate it if you leave a comment like that you give a bit more information, because Bush was not in office when the ban on hand guns went into effect.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am
SamIAm, I welcome comments and opinions. However, with vague, paranoid jackassery like that, it is hard to have an intellectual conversation. If you would like to leave another comment, one that could actually be responded to, please feel free. I look forward to it.
Also, I have a great deal of respect for President Bush.