"The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting"
Guns ·Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 23:19 EST (link)
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
That twit Eric Holder is sounding out a new "Assault" Weapons Ban. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his armpits.
"Assault weapon" is a political term, not a technical one. Laws about "assault" weapons describe cosmetic appearance (what we affectionately and somewhat satirically call the Evil Black Rifle (EBR)), not operating characteristics. It's meant to apply to a class of weapons that look scary, and is intended to confuse the public due to the similarity to the term assault rifle, a weapon capable of selective fire, that is, able to shoot multiple rounds at a time (think "machine gun"). It's a dirty trick. Not as big as the dirty trick of trying to take away arms from Americans and deprive them of their Second Amendment rights, but it's part of the whole Brady-and-pals dirty tricks arsenal. What's worse, depriving people of their right to self-defense does nothing to prevent crime:- these types of weapons are very rarely used to commit crimes
- if they were illegal, criminals would still have them
- if they weren't available, the crimes would still be committed
- guns of any kind in the hands of lawful owners reduce crime (see e.g. John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime).
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting… and I know I'm not going to make many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to protect ourselves from you all of guys up there.
—Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
The quote is from a video testimony that Dr. Gratia-Hupp gave before congress. She and her parents were in a store when a gunman shot up the place: no robbery motivation, just killing. According to her: it doesn't matter how many bullets fit in a magazine (something politicians love to make laws about)—"It takes one second to switch out a clip, and it's not enough time to rush a man." She usually kept a gun in her purse, but it was in her car because there were places where it was a felony offense to carry it. Her parents were both killed. "I'm not mad at the guy that did this… and I'm certainly not mad at the guns… I'm mad at my legislators for legislating me out of the right to protect myself and my family… I would much rather be sitting in jail with a felony charge on my head and have my parents alive."
The Second Amendment is about the ability to defend ourselves. From government. From thugs and from looters, and from the chaos that may well ensue if this recession becomes a depression. If necessary, it will allow an armed populace to stop a government bent on destruction of the American way of life, bent on overthrowing rule of law and free markets and the rights of free people. So if the army has tanks, then the people should have parity. If the army has helicopters and jets, anyone that can afford them should be able to buy them to defend themselves from tyranny of government, from the disaster that is Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their merry band of socialists that want to rob productive citizens and remake the nation in their twisted image.
In the end, the Second Amendment is the right that ensures all of the others.
