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.
And 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 inalienable
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 break 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, and 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. . . . . . . read the full article at Fox News.
"And I think there's a lot to be said for Republican Former Chief Justice Warren Burger's statement: "The Gun Lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies - the militia - would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires."
ReplyDelete- Chief Justice Warren E. Burger"
You can quote folks who hate guns all you want, The fact remains that the Supreme has ruled that the 2nd Amendment includes the private citizen. The real purpose of the 2nd amendment was to allow the citizenry to arm themselves against their own government, should that government decide to go "rogue."
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