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Stars and bars July 4 2018 American Flag
Stars and bars July 4 2018 American Flag

For Independence Day, let us not forget.

The most basic of rights is freedom of expression. The freedom to say what you feel, think, and believe. This is a right of the individual and of any body of people. There is no protection of this right without the right of people to bear arms in its defense - as individuals or otherwise.

It is this understanding that lead our country’s forefathers to pen these as the First and Second amendments to our constitution - in that order order, and on purpose.

Without the Second, the First is easily ignored (as are the others). It is not the arms themselves that defend the First, but the fact that we have the right to them, should we need to take them up, individually or en masse. This is why the Second amendment ends with “shall not be infringed.”

Those who do not believe that this is the intent of the Second Amendment, are being either purposefully ignorant, illogical or both – unless it is their intent to infringe this right, in which case they are being disengenuous. Of them I would ask “after losing the Second, what’s to stop us from losing the rest?”

Gandhi, and Martin Luther King agreed with our forefathers. The Dalai Lama believes in this right as well. It would be very difficult for anyone to convince me that they, themselves are somehow more enlightened than this body of visionaries.

I would love to believe that we as a society are evolved and enlightened enough that no individual or body of people would seek power over others, and infringe the freedom of others for their own gain. But I don’t believe we’re there yet. I don’t believe anyone capable of critical thought actually does - no matter how much we wish it were true.

To those who decry this interpretation of the Second Amendment, and either imply that it is ambiguous, or that it only grants a well regulated militia the right to bear arms, or that it is outdated, I say this – The Supreme Court and multitudes of professors, linguists, and historians consistently tell us that “you are wrong.”

And, though you are wrong, you have the right to continue being wrong for as long, and as loud, as you like, largely because of the Second Amendment.

Democrats for gun ownership

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Taken on: July 5, 2006
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