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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Importance of the Second Amendment

For millions of Americans the Second Amendment and its guarantee of the right of the individual to bear arms appears irrelevant and practically anachronistic. It seems a throwback to those earlier days of the Wild West, when many men, far from the law and order provided by the town sheriff and circuit judge, had to protect their families and land from cattle rustlers and outlaw bands. Such people are wrong. 

If in our contemporary world the law fails to do its job of seeing that the guilty pay for their crimes, we take solace in the fantasy of extralegal solutions. We imagine that somewhere there is a Clint Eastwood on a metropolitan police force who uses some "magnum force" to see to it that the perpetrator of a crime doesn't go unpunished. Or we want to think that there is a Charles Bronson occasionally roaming the streets of a large city at night fulfilling the "death wish" of the street criminal whom local law enforcement is not able to punish. 

The crime once having been committed, it is some breakdown in the judicial system that prevents justice from being served. If only the law didn't coddle the criminal or allow his defense attorney to use "loopholes" in the law, no criminal would ever escape his just deserts. 

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

that was an awesome read!

Bush'man said...

The 2nd amendment is our's, our children's, and our children's children insurance policy against tyranny. Plain and simple.

KBinLA said...

Here is a comment to the source article written by 45clive. Read it and digest it for it is as true as the truth can be.
"The Constitution may indeed be the shield, but we must wield the sword ourselves. The Constitution is an animator; it has no power to protect itself. If we are not animated by it, the Constitution is of no consequence. If we will not defend it against all enemies, especially domestic enemies, then we are no better than slaves in the field."

Anonymous said...

10:32... excellent! People this administration is dangerous. If they loose the Senate this fall, watch out for him. Note, it has just come to light that King Barry and King Barry alone, can wield the forces of the military against citizens if the US. He will do it.

Anonymous said...

Guns are dangerous. All these nuts is getting guns and going on rampages killing everyone. GET RID OF THE GUNS!

lmclain said...

Get rid of cars, too. THEY kill more people than guns EVERY YEAR.
Just think --- we could be (if we only got rid of guns), just like North Korea, China, Britain (yeah, Britain, were criminal VICTIMS go to prison for DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and a host of other countries where you WILL do as you're told and just a few elite get to do whatever they want. Why?
Because their leaders have NO fear of rebellion or resistance. THEY are the only ones with guns.
Just as Thomas Jefferson said, they MUST fear the people, or well, you end up like slaves.