Hard cases make bad law,
which is why they are reserved for the Constitution.
It is time the gun grabbers
put up and repeal the Second Amendment or shut up about violating it because
their efforts to disarm and short-arm Americans not only violate the U.S.
Constitution in Merriam Webster’s first sense of the term – to “disregard” it –
but they also violate the Constitution in every other sense the term: to
“break,” “rape,” “profane” and “interrupt.”
Hard cases make bad law,
which is why they are reserved for the Constitution, not left to the caprice of
legislatures, the sophistry and casuistry of judges or the despotic rule making
of the chief executive and his bureaucracy. And make no mistake, guns pose one
of the hardest cases a free people confronts in the 21st century, a test of
whether that people cherishes liberty above tyranny, values individual
sovereignty above dependency on the state and whether they dare any longer to
live free.
A people cannot
simultaneously live free and be bound to any human master or man-made
institution, especially to politicians, judges, bureaucrats and faceless
government agencies. The Second Amendment along with the other nine amendments
of the Bill of Rights was designed to prevent individuals’ enslavement to
government, not just to guarantee people the right to hunt squirrels or sport
shoot at targets, nor was it included in the Bill of Rights just to guarantee
individuals the right to defend themselves against robbers, rapers and lunatics
or to make sure the states could raise a militia quick, on the cheap to defend
against a foreign invader or domestic unrest.
The Second Amendment was
designed to ensure that individuals retained the right and means to defend
themselves against any illegitimate attempt to do them harm, be it an attempt by
a private outlaw or government agents violating their trust under the color of
law. The Second Amendment was meant to guarantee individuals the right to
protect themselves against government as much as against private bad guys and
gangs.
That is why the gun
grabbers’ assault on firearms is not only, not even primarily an attack merely
on the means of self-defense but more fundamentally, the gun grabbers are
engaged in a blatant attack on the very legitimacy of self-defense itself. It’s
not really about the guns; it is about the government’s ability to demand
submission of the people. Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing
collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with
dependence upon and allegiance to the state.
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