Getting to the bottom of the ongoing debate about the 2nd Amendment is fairly straightforward and easy once you realize it has little to do with handguns and other firearms. The conflict boils down (and most times over) to one question that truly isn’t about gunpowder and bullets. The politics surrounding this particular amendment to the United States Constitution comes down to the most basic, innate of human rights.
Do you believe we have inalienable rights, God given rights? Or do you believe that your rights are really permissions granted to you by the government? Does the Constitution give you rights or does the Constitution protect hereditary, native rights? Are your rights yours, or lent to you by decree? Are they birth rights or borrowed rights?
Protected or Granted? YOU make the call!
In the recent 5-4 Supreme Court Decision, the debate came down to the above questions. Is it possible that the four dissenting Justices believe in Government given, not God given rights?
It is laughable that some use the “dangerous nature” of firearms to support the restriction of our 2nd Amendment, inalienable right to “keep and and bear arms” fully ignoring that the right to free religious thought, speech, press and assembly protected by the 1st Amendment can also produce dangerous situations and circumstances as well. Rhetoric can be as dangerous as a loaded revolver at times.
How many wars were triggered over words? The first volley fired is most times verbal, is it not?
Will we next surrender the right to free speech, an unencumbered press or religious assembly because law makers and Justices think our society would be safer if we did so? Should we allow legislation to take our cars, motor cycles, airplanes and the like? We would all be much “safer” if we did. If we gave up Christianity we would be safer from Al-Qaeda attacks. If we gave up democracy then maybe China and Russia would stop trying to bring us down. That sounds like a safer world, no super powers threatening to annihilate each other?
Trading inalienable rights for the promise of safety is a dangerous, slippery slope.
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