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Attacking The 2nd Amendment |
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A Report On New Attempts At US Gun Control |
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I am in mourning. It feels as though I've been betrayed by a longtime acquaintance. It's a hollow feeling when someone you used to trust implicitly does an "about face" and suddenly says something completely contrary to your normal expectations of that person. A progressive icon whom I have admired for many years said, in one extremely ignorant moment, something so egregiously wrong that it has now dashed the previous high esteem that I once held for her. I'm referring to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, previously of Air America fame, which is where I stumbled across her years ago. Maddow is smart and politically savvy. She earned a political science doctorate from Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, as well as a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University. Again, she is extremely bright, well educated and very articulate, which is the foundation for my concern. Please hear me out. Maddow was commenting on the tragic shootings in Tuscon, Arizona, before launching an attack on Republican Congressmen Ron Paul and Paul Brown, not to mention activist talk-radio host Alex Jones. What Maddow said literally left me with my mouth agape and my jaw banging my shoe-tops. Maddow attacked all three men for their belief that the 2nd amendment guarantees "we the people" the right to bear arms, and to keep militias in order to rise up against oppressive government. Maddow would have you believe that this is not the case at all. She is sorely mistaken. The second amendment says very plainly and clearly... "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." -2nd Amendment, Bill of Rights Maddow attempted to feebly explain that this is a "misunderstood" portion of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Sadly enough, she is not alone in trying to spin the intentions of our forefathers, taking extreme liberty with the interpretation of the amendment. Maddow, like others of her misguided belief, clearly fails to recognize the purpose and intent because they fail to recall the environment that our Constitution was drafted under. Our forefathers had just fought a war for freedom with an overly oppressive government. They put the second amendment into our Bill of Rights with very good reason and historical hindsight. They knew that governments can become corrupt, and for that reason they gave "we the people" (the lawful Constitution-appointed authority of our government) the right to bear arms and form militias, in the event we should ever be oppressed by government again. How anyone can possibly misinterpret the actual text is beyond sane reason. Those trying to propagate this un-American ideal are clearly overlooking a key passage, in the second paragraph of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. ... So much for our forefathers not making their intentions any clearer. It is quite obvious that they undeniably allowed us the legal right to protect ourselves from tyrannical leaders and an oppressive government. It was so important to them, they put it in the second paragraph of the document. That ought to tell you how serious our forefathers were about the matter. This ludicrous challenge by gun control advocates over a fundamental American right, has no basis in Constitutional fact. The push to unarm Americans has become a concerted effort from the wealthy elite who are directly responsible for the takeover of our monetary system and the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913. They are the only group with an interest in taking away our guns. Their hope is for a nefarious New World Order of total control, ruled by them, but they cannot achieve that treasonous plan without first taking our guns away. "We the people," and our guns, are the largest obstacle to the dissolution of nationalities and the establishment of a one world government. They want our guns because then we cannot defend ourselves when they attempt to topple our Republic for their New World Order of total control. So the war on our gun rights continues, but it does so with a former champion for democracy now in the fold. For someone as well educated and intelligent as Maddow is, to fail to grasp the obvious in our Constitution, it all just leaves me greatly shocked and with much remorse. After years as a faithful listener and viewer, I used to trust her insight, but no more. Not after she shot her mouth off on gun control. No matter who tells you that guns are bad, please don't believe the lie. Guns don't kill people. Bad people will always find a way to hurt us, and taking our guns away does not remove that threat. It only diminishes our ability to protect ourselves when a threat does arise. The fact that our government has armed itself to the teeth against us, with highly effective non-lethal weaponry, including sonic cannons, skin-burning microwave emitters, and blinding lasers, to go along with their already standard compliment of rubber bullets, tasers, tear gas and percussion grenades, etc, is all highly disturbing. These are not weapons of war. They are tools for the suppression of public protests. Developed with our own taxpayer money, our government has already rolled out these weapons against us, many times, and whenever they can; from political conventions (2008 RNC, St. Paul / 2008 DNC, Denver) to guarding meetings from heads of state (G-20 summit, Pittsburgh). These weapons are directed against a civilian population, to curb unrest, or curtail civilian protest. These weapons are always used to protect the elite. What would we have to protect ourselves from the controlling elite, if we should ever give up our guns? Think about it. These new directed energy weapons are not to protect us, they are to deter us. After all, we do have our owns guns, not to mention a pretty formidable military for our defense. So ask yourself why our government felt it necessary to develop these new psychotronic weapons. We're still killing 'em dead in Afghanistan and Iraq with standard munitions, so the non-lethal combat use has been negligible. Instead, we deploy these weapons here, in the US. Why? Past deployments of these space-age weapons show that they are not using them to protect us, they're using them to protect themselves, from us. And they want us to give up our guns? Our founding fathers were very wise when they designed the greatest Republic to ever stand. They gave us the ability to defend our one of a kind government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." The day we give up our guns is the day we give up on the Constitution and our remaining American freedoms. We've managed to survive with guns for over 200 plus years now. We'll continue to survive another 200, if we just remember the vision of our forefathers and maintain our ability to protect ourselves and stand against oppression.
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