The Second Amendment is not to arm you less than it is to arm the government…. [T]he purpose of the Second Amendment was you have got to be able to defend yourself, your rights, period against anybody and that sometimes means it may be your government coming after you. So if the government has got AR-15s, guess what? The people can have AR-15s … Whatever the government’s got, you’ve got to be able to defend yourself against. So there was no limitation on what you could or couldn’t do with the Second Amendment; it was a self-defense amendment and if everybody is coming at you AR-15s, you don’t defend yourself with BB guns, you get AR-15s.
In the debate over gun control and the role of guns in American society, there are few things I find more maddening than people so married to their absolutist interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that there’s no room for, or possibility of, compromise. These are the “You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers” crowd, gun nuts who believe that the 2nd Amendment is immutable, unalterable, and sacrosanct and that THEY AND ONLY THEY are the true keepers of the flame. It’s difficult to imagine that 26 words could be interpreted so narrowly and absolutely, but these are not rational people open to a reasoned discussion.
There really are those, like David Barton, who is to Christianity what Lance Armstrong is to cycling (hint: it involves lying) so inflexible and intellectually dishonest as to seriously believe that there should be no limits on the 2nd Amendment. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Yep, if the government is allowed to have a 155-mm howitzer, there’s no reason why an American citizen shouldn’t be allowed to have one in their front yard. Hey, you never know when you’re going to have to defend yourself from a tyrannical government, right?
That would explain the Patriot missile battery in my backyard. Sure, it uses a TON of electricity, but peace through strength requires sacrifices, no? And if I can manage to convince the neighbors to chop down some of their trees, I’ll be able to clear landing space for that UH-60 Cobra attack helicopter I’ve had my eye on for the past few months. It can lay waste to an area the size of a football field in the blink of an eye…and what Homo sapien in full possession of his man card wouldn’t want that??
Ain’t no way that commie Librul government in Washington is going to outgun me, knowhutimean??
Seriously, y’all; these folks and their paranoid need to compensate for their diminished manhood is pathetic. The 2nd Amendment is neither sacrosanct nor immutable, and those who argue otherwise are simply looking to perpetuate a system that aids and abets the slaughter of children and innocent civilians.
It’s time to stand up to the bullies and make America a safer and saner place. While we’re at it, how about we lose the paranoia about the need to defend ourselves from the jack-booted thugs of a tyrannical government? Not being allowed to do whatever you deem necessary and appropriate is not evidence of a tyrannical government; it’s evidence that the interests of the collective outweigh your individual “rights.” Get over yourself, already. Your belief in and desire for something doesn’t make that impulse primary, and it certainly shouldn’t overrule perpetuating a system to makes the slaughter of children possible.
It’s time to end the insanity and the slaughter, regardless of the impotent protestations of the gun nuts. WE DESERVE BETTER.
