Second Amendment Not Biggest Hurdle to Gun Control

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 26 May 2014 15:08:25 GMT  <== RKBA ==> 

Crystal Park at Voice of Russia - complains that the NRA makes it hard to implement gun control legislation in America. I commented: [@jpfo]

Only a lawyer could interpret "shall not be infringed" to mean that any restriction whatsoever is allowed on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, short of barring actual crime, meaning aggressive physical harm or theft.

The NRA is moderately useful as a guard against legisltative infringements, but they are primarily a firearms training organization, and they have a history of trading away our rights. For the REAL Second Amendment legislative bulwarks, see JPFO or GOA.

But the on-the-ground defense of our right to keep and bear arms is We, the American People. Deny our rights legislatively, and you still have to take away our guns. At least three percent of eighty million armed Americans will take great offense at that prospect, and three-quarters-of-a-million American police will have a bloody (literally) hard time disarming those three million freedom fighters. It will make the first American Civil War look like a picnic.

But then, that's what the Second Amendment is for. Yes, it provides for defense of self, family, community, and state. But primarily, it ensures that We the People are always able to eradicate our government, should that become necessary.

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