First, I must make the necessary caveat. I own weapons, and have since I was
twelve years old when I received my first .22 rifle, a Mossberg, tubular feed,
bolt action. I rarely go hunting
any more, mainly because the Nevada Wildlife people have allowed the herds and
flocks to decline radically. My
wife, Patty and I love to shoot black powder, have participated in many
rendezvous, and will continue to do so.
My dad was a life member of the National Rifle Association, I grew up
with the NRA safety rules bounced off my head regularly but have never joined
the group. Their safety training
is the best in the world.
All of that said, the current arguments to limit or do away
with the Second Amendment have little credence. If every law in the books today were acted on by the
agencies responsible, there would still be violence, from guns, from knives,
from hammers, from anything that could be considered a weapon. When a person is robbed late at night
in an awkward part of town, and dies from the inflicted knife wound, there is a
mention in the paper. When a
person shoots his neighbor, in a nicer neighborhood there is a front page
headline.
An argument was offered recently that is seriously
naïve. The argument was that any
nation with bombers, fighter aircraft, nuclear weapons, or other weapons of
mass destruction could attack the United States and all the weapons in private
hands would have no effect.
Nonsense. The argument was
probably written by someone who has never seen military service.
Atomic bombs, other bombs, other weapons have never won a
war or battle. It still takes an
invading force, and any fool that thinks the many millions of weapons in the
private hands of American citizens aren’t a deterrent, isn’t thinking. That is the primary purpose of the
Second Amendment. Its secondary
purpose is to keep the government in power in check, and if you don’t believe
that you haven’t read your history.
History does tell us that the Second World War was won through
the use of the atomic bomb. But,
it was the government of Japan that would not accept the fact they were whipped
until two of those monsters had to be dropped. It kept us from having to invade, and it’s the invasion and
subsequent win that would determine the victory should some despot be foolish.
There was no standing United States army in 1776, only bands
of revolutionaries willing to take out the government in power at the
time. Those revolutionaries became
Washington’s army, and even then most were considered private militia. The constitution and Bill of Rights
made it clear that we will be a free nation because of a well armed militia.
The current administration, from day one of the first term,
has made it clear they plan to make serious changes in the Bill of Rights and
the Constitution. Naming Eric
Holder as Attorney General should have sent red flags screaming up flag poles
across the nation. The continued
arresting and holding of American citizens without charges, without benefit of
counsel, and the activity at Guantanamo and secret CIA sites where fingernails
can be ripped from someone or water dripped in forced open mouths, and the
drone attacks on countries on which we have not declared war are all
unconstitutional, yet adored by this administration.
Now, we have the man lovingly known to his far left
supporters as “Uncle Joe’, in reality, one that those of us who believe in the
constitution should be most frightened.
When Holder was outed, President Obama called in his other attack dog,
Vice President Biden.
This is not the time to sit back and hope the other guy gets
the job done. There is a full
frontal assault on our rights as citizens of this country, and it is time to
stand up and be counted, because if we don’t, there will come a knock on your
door, probably about three a.m., and men with black hoods and big rifles will
take you and your rightfully owned weapons into custody, and your neighbors
will not know where you went, nor will they see you again.
Have a great day and read good books.
