I was not born in this country. My mother tongue was Nazi. Yet I am, body and soul, American and if there were more parts to me, these would be American too. But for you to understand what it means to me to be American and how the Second Amendment has governed my life, I need to visit with you some of the more poignant moments of America’s history.This is an essay on what it is to be American, and on dangers to the American ideal.
On questions of gun control the author states:
Why, then, is ownership by governmental permission so horrid? To understand the full impact of this terror, look, for example, at your favorite single action frontier colt and realize that it is yours not by a decision you have made, but by permission of your government and that only until it decides that you should not be allowed to keep it any longer. Ownership by permission rather than personal volition is the most horrifying, the most debilitating, the most demeaning form of ownership. Realize this also that the most precious property you can own is not life, is not freedom, it is arms when derived from the unalienable right to keep and bear them. In proscribing arms, the most, government can proscribe the least. Your toilet paper, your forks and knives, your candlesticks, and your matchbooks. All these are now subject to censure.And on the decay of government, and our means to prevent that decay:
Government may never intrude this deeply into your privacy. No National Socialist ever saw the need for such intrusion. But not because of benevolence, no, only because it is too costly and too cumbersome. Government, when unconstrained will, in time, naturally gravitate to total brutality and unmitigated tyranny. The combination of power lust and crusader lust leaves it no other choice. For no politician, including Stalin and Hitler of the past, thinks of himself as evil. In a bizarre, twisted sort of way he sees himself as a savior, providing and procuring goodness for those he defines to be unable to fend for themselves. The founders of this nation knew this. That is why they encoded the Second Amendment into our Bill of Rights. For they knew that the RIGHT alone, provided it would remain revered, would always be enough to prevent conflict with a predacious and disobedient government by expunging, long before it would ever begin, any compulsion to dominate.Go read this essay that is posted on the "Armed Females of America" website.
3 comments:
You can't own ANYTHING without government. Who's going to enforce your mortgage contract? The government. Who going to enforce your business contract? If someone rips you off, in your view, you bring in the justice system...it's conservative to conserve law and order.
We need government, but the price is eternal vigilance.
As for armed females...do you really want ME to be armed? You guys know me by now. You know I'm the type to accidentally shoot myself, even with training. I'm no genius, and I'm a klutz. And I'm only just now, at this late age, getting my bad attitude under controll.
I am a liberal who has been mugged. I was walking to my car after work. It was evening, and a guy walked up to me, and pointed a gun right at my face, and said "I just got out of jail, give me your wallet!" So I pulled my wallet out of my purse. I had $40 dollars, and I said "This is my last 40 dollars, I'm in similar straights, can we at least split it?" He looked at me like I had two heads, and said "Your crazy!"
I said, "I'm just broke that's all." And he said, "Alright, just give me the f-ing 20, run up the street and don't turn around." I gave him the 20, and ran up the street - way passed where my car was, cuz I didn't want him to see my car, and when I was sure he was gone, I went back to my job, and called the cops/government (this was before cell phones, so that gives you an idea of how old I am.)
The government does not give you permission to purchase a house or enter into a business contract. But, the government in way too many places does feel that it has the right to give us "permission" to protect ourselves.
Nowhere in the essay is it mentioned that we do not need government.
The three paragraphs that I pulled were just a part of what was being said, and you should read the entire essay to appreciate what the author intends.
As to what I think about your being armed or not..
You are a free citizen of these United States. The decision to be armed or not should rely entirely on you. I have no say in your decision, just as you have no say in mine. It is interesting that the folks who feel that they can not be trusted with a firearm, or who feel that they can not handle a firearm safely, try to project those attributes onto the rest of us.
I do not seek to require that you carry a firearm to protect yourself. I do not even seek to require that you attempt to protect yourself in any manner whatsoever, even if I do think it is your responsibility, I would not require it of you.
No, the government enforces your contracts which allows you to enter into them in the first place. With guns, if nessesary. It's not about permission. It's about accountability.
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