let's keep the discussion simple, so that even a simpleton can comprehend it.
the 2nd amendment to the constitution of the united states is not about protecting "hunting rifles." it is about resisting tyranny, and the oppression, violence and carnage wreaked upon a people by their government.
it was the framers intent that an armed people could resist such oppression, could fight against governmental murder.
think for just a moment, if you are capable. (this addressed to democrats, liberals and leftists of all stripes.)
do you think that pol phot could have slaughtered his people in the killing fields, that hitler could have enforced the holocaust, that mao could have loosed his red brigades upon millions, or that lenin, stalin, and a whole host of red successors could have instituted and administered the gulag killing and labor camps, ... , that any of them could have unleashed death and mayhem as they did against an armed and jealous people, determined to protect their lives and liberty?
do you really?
i don't.
and, friends, when you evaluate what is at stake in the right to own, possess and bear arms in your defense against the depredations of government, understand fully that barack hussein obama does not think so either.
can you bring yourselves to comprehend his motives in seeking "gun control," in seeking the confiscation of the very weapons necessary to contend with his armed minions, on an equal footing.
john jay @ 12.26.2012
Well and concisely put. I will share with friends.
Posted by: Jeff Smith | December 28, 2012 at 06:41 AM
The government -- any government -- will be no more successful in removing guns from our streets and homes than they have been in removing drugs therefrom, even with an increased level of tyranny.
What I am more concerned about is our will, our will to resist.
Solzhenitzyn, speaking at Harvard, wondered why the citizens of Leningrad cowered in their homes while they were arrested one by one, why no one set up an ambush with hammers and axes.
How many of us will have the will to resist when push comes to shove?
Posted by: The Old Guy | December 28, 2012 at 08:18 AM
old guy:
you raise good points.
none of us are defenseless, even if no firearms are at hand.
i keep a model 98 mauser bayonet at the door. in my kitchen drawers i have meat cleavers, rolling pins, and the like. on my kitchen counter is a holder for chicago cutlery, with two butcher knives and two chef's knives.
on my shelves, (because i am a child of the 60's i am doing pretty good not to have several lancer's rose crocks with candles on them, laughing), i have several empty wine bottles.
yes, we are all armed to the teeth, whether we know it or not. and, we all have the capacity to resist, as long as we have teeth, fists and finger nails.
it is, as solzhenitzyn said and you note, all a matter of will.
john jay
Posted by: john jay | December 28, 2012 at 11:34 AM