Las Vegas, NV—I spent some quality time with an incredible
assortment of firearms of every type here at the SHOT Show. When that ended the very upscale Las Vegas Antique Arms
Show at the Rivera Convention Center was my next stop. Between the two shows there were nearly
100,000 people. There were no assaults,
accidents or even disturbances of any kind.
Crime takes a holiday in Las Vegas with all these gun-packing visitors.
The mood at the shows was angry and even confrontational
about suggestions that liberty and freedom be compromised away or surrendered
for the bogus promise of public safety.
Today's Americans are more educated than ever about gun rights and
why we have them in the first place. The
Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and carry firearms. It exists to fundamentally allow Americans to
use force and violence against anyone trying to violate those Constitutional
freedoms! That simply means politicians,
bureaucrats and their agents may lose their lives should they try and make an
end run around liberty or freedom.
There is a proper political method for taking liberty or
freedom by way of a Constitutional Amendment.
The process was designed to be very difficult to protect even Americans
with minority concerns.
Too many Americans are totally ignorant and believe that a
simple 51% majority is enough to restrict our hard won freedom. Of course Europeans that don’t like our gun
freedom don’t understand why changing our Constitution was designed to be so
difficult.
The consensus among those that don’t like our gun rights is
that the Second Amendment is somehow outdated.
The Constitution is the Law of the land and the emotional response,
whims or tyranny of our politicians cannot lawfully bring infringement on our
rights to possess and carry firearms. So-called, good intentions simply do not
justify or authorize violating American’s rights.
People and politicians love to compromise their way to
agreements. Over recent decades many Americans
have grown to accept blatant violations of the Civil Rights when is comes to
firearms. That however does not make the past infringements legal!
We did not create a right to keep and bear inferior or
ineffective arms. Our founding fathers
did not open the door for Gun Free Zones or a way to monitor and spy on gun
owners through bogus registration schemes.
Politicians have managed to lead so many Americans to
believe that possessing or carrying firearms is a tightly restricted privilege
rather than what it really is, constitutionally protected activity.
Restricting the ability of Americans to buy guns in their
state of residence, forcing them to pay fees or register themselves like sex
offenders or their guns like motor vehicles is simply government tyranny.
The U.S. Supreme Court decisions made in the recent Heller
and McDonald cases made it clear that Americans have the right to keep and
carry guns for defense of self, family, neighbors and country. States and local governments are absolutely
forbidden to infringe on gun rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Frankly the politician’s using the threat of force and
violence against Americans in efforts to infringe on their gun rights is
treason, tyranny and criminal. The
Second Amendment was created for just the state of siege Barack Obama is trying
to assemble.
The Americans I talked to attending the two huge firearms
shows made it clear that they have amassed more firearms and ammunition to violently
resist any additional infringements on their rights to keep and carry firearms.
These same people I talked with began efforts or have
organized in their own community to violently swarm any federal, state or local
agents raiding their fellow gun owners.
They have vowed to stop cold any raids like the ones we saw against
Randy Weaver or the Waco Branch Dravidians.
The law of the land does not allow for politicians to decide
what freedoms they can take from us. On
the contrary that law of the land allows us to resist their tyranny.
The Spartan King Lionidas said it all when the Persian king Xerxes ordered him to lay down his weapons. Lionidas said "Molon Labe", which translates as "come and take them". The current government in this country, who's leaders style themselves as kings of an imperial executive branch, need to hear the people say, you want our guns, well "Molon Labe".
ReplyDeleteThey think they can get away with banning guns, or forcing registration, or even requiring every free man to beg permission before he trades a piece of personal property. They have no idea how badly they have misjudged the resolve of the Free People of These United States. They have no idea how bad this will turn out for them. They have no foresight that the coming confrontation will bring about the collapse of their Grand Socialist experiment.
ReplyDeleteAs was said before Molon Labe! Or more appropriately, Jim Bowie's reply.
Sorry to be an ignorant foreigner , but I have to ask you what was Jim Bowie reply and to whom ?
ReplyDelete"The Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and carry firearms"
ReplyDeleteThe Second Amendment says ARMS,not firearms.That means grenades,their launchers,anti-tank weapons,mortars,artillery pieces,claymores,etc,etc.
This is why most are afraid to discuss the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.Its very clear what the founding fathers meant,lots of evidence to support it.
If we allow the courts and govt to dictate what we can have,we are not free.
Ok,no nukes,Sarin nerve agents or anthrax.But thats all the compromise I will give.
Thank Heaven for gun control.
ReplyDeleteIf governments always did things legally, logically, ethically, and in a consistent and sensible manner, how would people ever learn that the ruling class is scum?
As it is, government is not logical or ethical or sensible. It's consistently indulging in imperial overreach - thus teaching Americans again and again that the rulers are never to be trusted. Just as Proudhon put it many decades ago:
"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
Just a note on unalienable rights, of which the right to keep and bear arms is one.
ReplyDeleteIf the state, or the majority, were allowed to ammend the Constitution to do away with the Bill of Rights, then by definition the rights would not be unalienable.
The only method for taking rights is through deceit, and force. It is our responsibility to maintain a free state.