Wil Wirtanen

The Reminder for Today.

How Scrapping The Second Amendment Would Jeopardize The Entire Bill Of Rights

From the article:
"The Bill of Rights is not a wish list or an enshrinement of what society thinks is most important. Rights are not requests to the government for things that we want or even need. On the contrary, rights handcuff the government. They protect us from government intrusion on our freedom.

The founders recognized that it was immoral for those who work in government to wield certain powers over their equals, so they included these protections in the Constitution. Rights are based on the objective moral truth that all humans are equal, which is why the founders referred to our rights as "inalienable” and "God-given.”

So, why did the founders feel the need to specify the right to bear arms in the constitution? After all, wouldn’t it be just as wrong for the government to take away any other possession? Why add a specific amendment about guns? The answer is that the founders understood the important role guns play in establishing and preserving a free society. They found this out firsthand.

As Chinese dictator Mao Zedong said, "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.”

End excerpt.

This from Wil:

The difference between Law and Liberty is:

Liberty is something people are willing to die for;

Law is something the government is willing to kill for.

A NOTE FROM TIM:

Rights are not merely to "handcuff" the government, and they are not just what society thinks are most important. They are God given, meeaning they transcend human will or should. For the nonbeliever that means they are the children of Natural Law, something that you already have, or should, and will retain unless someone tries to take that away from you. When another individual does it we call that person a criminal, but when the state does it we call it a law.

But in the end it's all the same thing. Rights are expressions of Nature and Nature's God, not of human will or priorities. That must never, ever be forgotten.

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