NRA tactics erode post-Newtown support for gun-control measures
8:37 AM EDT
The oldest of humans rights is the right of self defense, and only slightly younger are the rights of self determination and the right of rebellion that Englightenment thinkers traced back to the earliest religious texts.
The Second Amendment was written to ensure that Americans could never be enslaved by their governments the way that other governments enslaved their people. It was their express desire that every law-abiding American citizen be armed "with the sword and every terrible weapon of war," including the most advanced military rifles, pistols, bayonets, grenades and cannon of their day (and yes, they even knew of early machine guns like the Puckle gun and rapid-fire assualt rifles like the Ferguson that fired 10-times faster than the common musket).
They knew--as our current generation of legislators on both sides of the aisle are proving--that the government cannot be trusted with liberty. They always weaken it and pervert it, attempting to subvert it for their benefit. Governments that last long enough invarably stop serving the people, and attempt to force the people to serve the government. We are living in a time where the government is attempting that usurpation, and it will be our distinct privildge and honor to go to war against that tyranny and restore the liberties won for us by our forefathers, restoring this nation to First Principles without the curse of exism and racism that haunted previous generations.
Civil war is a horrible thing, but not the most horrible of things. This time, perhaps, we will get it right.
I will not fire until fired upon, but if the enemies of Liberty mean to have battle, let it be on my watch, and let it begin here.
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