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The Second Amendment
By JBC | April 18, 2007
Amendment II
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.
For anybody out there having problems with an American citizen’s right to bear arms, please read the above. For any political hack, currently holding office, please observe the above. Governmental ttempts to deny civil liberties and individual freedoms is the primary reason the above was included, at the insistance of a majority of the states, in the United States Constitution. It was not included, as many less-informed people, like Nancy Pelosi or Diane Feinstein state, for the sole purpose of arming the Republic against invasion by or submission to a FOREIGN power. At that time, Americans still had a healthy fear of centralized power, and fully realized that their own government could well turn against them one day…thus, the term “security of a free State” was put to paper.
If you have doubts about the truth of this, please read the Right Honorable Thomas Jefferson’s words, “As revolutionary instruments (when nothing but revolution will cure the evils of the State) are necessary and indispensable, and the right to use them is inalienable by the people.” For a people to have the inalienable right to to revolt, sufficient tools to carry out the action must be available. Also, and more to the point, he said this, “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
I’ll leave you with the following:
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. …And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
TJ
Overzealous legislators, over-protective nanny-state supporters, and over-reactive knee-jerks should understand the history of world governments and personal liberty, and the role of the Second Amendment within our own struggle to maximize individual freedoms and to minimize governmental encroachment upon these.
JBC
PS - I am not advocating a bloody revolt. But, our government should be aware that its citizens have the means, and duty, to revolt if necessary. We should maintain our right to bear arms, if only to whisper, as the slave to Caesar, “Remember Mr. President and Ms. Congressman, you are only human.”
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