"The greatest
tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." -- Thomas Paine
Ban Guns – Lose
Your Freedom
Opinion Editorialist for
Posted November 13, 2017
Since the tragic murder of 59
peaceful concertgoers in Las Vegas, I’ve heard well-intentioned but ignorant
Americans from all political corners echoing heartbroken and tempting refrains
such as:
Ban Guns – Lose
Your Freedom
By de Andréa
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted November 13, 2017
Do you know the reason why the Framers wrote and included the
Second Amendment in Constitutional law? No! It wasn’t for the purpose of
hunting as president Clinton told you. He lied!
Read it for yourself:
“A well-regulated
Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
First,
the Militia referred to, who were then, and are now, citizens,
not military or police. Second, as you can clearly see, the Second
Amendment is
necessary to secure a Free State, because without it, as the title
of this article suggests, we lose our freedom. Third, the people, that’s you
and me my friend, have a right to keep and bear arms. Fourth that right can
never be legally infringed upon. That’s why every so-called law restricting
this right is Illegal.
"The strongest
reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last
resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. No free man shall ever
be debarred the use of arms." Thomas Jefferson
Meaning if men are debarred the use of arms they are no
longer free! Every time another gun
regulation becomes an illegal law we lose a little part of our freedom. When
guns are gone from the hands of law abiding citizens your entire freedom is
gone. It’s is really as simple as that.
America
has remained the only truly free nation on the planet, because of the
protection/threat of the Second Amendment.
The
following is where America is headed if we continue to allow our State and Federal
governments to violate the law and disarm its citizens.
Since the tragic murder of 59
peaceful concertgoers in Las Vegas, I’ve heard well-intentioned but ignorant
Americans from all political corners echoing heartbroken and tempting refrains
such as:
Why
can’t we just ban guns?
Surely
we can all get together on the rocket launchers.
Things
like this would happen less often if there were no guns.
We
have enough military and police to protect us.
While victims were still in surgery, some took to television and social media
to criticize the so-called “outdated” and “dangerous” Second Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. They have lived so long in a safe, stable society that they
falsely believe armed citizens are a threat to life and liberty for everyone.
When just the opposite is actually true.
Catalonia clearly shows the danger of disarming its citizens.
Those who claim to see no necessity or benefits of
individual gun ownership need only look to the rolling hills of Catalonia,
where a live social experiment is currently unfolding right before your eyes.
Disarmed Patriots
Just hours before a lone deranged man opened fire from the Nevada Mandalay
Bay casino, the citizens of a small region surrounding Barcelona, Spain, attempted
to cast a vote for their regional independence. Catalonia’s citizens who have a unique different
language, culture, and history, and consider Spain as a neighboring power, not
their rightful rulers. So just as America’s Continental Congress heroically did
(and as Texans and Californians occasionally threaten to do) Catalonia wished
to declare independence from Espania and secede.
Spain has enacted the
kind of restrictions un-American gun control advocates only dream of.
Polling stations and voters in Catalonia were
attacked by heavily armed agents of the state of Spain with riot gear and
pointed rifles. Spanish National Police fired the very guns that the Catalonia
taxpayer bought for them, they unleashed tear gas canisters on voters, broke
down polling center doors, disrupted the vote, and destroyed enough ballots to
throw results into serious doubt.
Unfortunately almost none of those
would-be Catalonia patriots were armed and as a result they has lost all of
their freedom.
In Spain, firearm ownership is not a protected individual right. Civilian
firearms licenses are restricted to “cases of extreme necessity” and the
government decides what a “genuine reason is.” Background checks, medical
exams, and license restrictions further restrict access. Licenses are granted
individually by caliber and model, with semi-automatic weapons strictly
forbidden to civilians. Police can demand a citizen produce a firearm at any
time for inspection or confiscation. Spain has enacted, the kind of restrictions
American gun-control advocates crave.
But of course, that doesn’t mean that Spanish citizens don’t buy guns. In
fact, Spanish taxpayers maintain an enormous arsenal of weapons, however they
are all in the hands “armed police forces within the
administration of the state, who are the persons in charge of providing security to the population.”
Those agents of the state weren’t “providing security to the population”
of Catalonia on Sunday — they were pointing guns at would-be founding patriots
who had challenged the rule of their oppressors.
The consequences of a government using force to control those it is sworn
to protect are high. But when citizens are armed, the consequences for tyranny
rise and its likelihood falls.
Armed Tyrants in
America
If you think this
can’t happen in the U.S. then you are naive my friend. Read on. Americans
have grown too trustful of the State, too ready to assume bureaucrats have only
our best interests at heart. The United
States Constitution was designed to create the smallest government in the
history of the world, with no standing army, and little right to intrude in the
private activities of its citizens. Instead, we have allowed our government to
ignore the very law that governs them and become the most powerful and
intrusive government in human history, with 800 permanent military bases in 70
countries, unfathomable firepower, and staggering surveillance capabilities.
Unchecked abuses of power are routine and tolerated.
67 unconstitutional federal agencies, including the IRS and the FDA, have
military weapons, according to the OpenTheBooks Oversight Report The
Militarization of America. Among the most intrusive programs, including
the Tyrannical Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Safety
Authority, keep their weapons budget a secret.
Try telling the truth to yourself for a change, instead of saying
Americans shouldn’t be allowed to buy guns, when the real truth is “citizens
should only be allowed to buy guns for their rulers.”
The number of American armed government
officials with arrest and firearm authority has doubled since 1996 when the crime rate has
gone down by half. The US now has more armed federal officers (200,000+)
than US Marines at (182,000). The IRS spends millions of taxpayer dollars
annually on pump-action military shotguns, AR-15 rifles, riot gear, and Special
Forces contractors to train thousands of “special agents” in targeting American
citizens. In our all-volunteer army, new recruits take an oath that includes
“if ordered I will shoot to kill American citizens.”
Local police, sheriffs, and state troopers have also been armed to wage
war against American citizens. Battlefield weapons are being given to state and
local police, allegedly to combat drug trafficking (I find it interesting that the
drug use has quadrupled since the “War on drugs” began) and to fight
terrorist threats at local pumpkin festivals. Military SWAT-style raids are
used to serve bogus search
warrants given out by corrupt federal judges, but not
hostage situations.
Relatives and neighbors of alleged criminals have had government agents
hold guns to their children’s
heads. Violations of civil rights, including
illegal searches and the seizure of money and property without evidence of any
crime, are commonplace. Moreover this will only escalate my friend. It’s not
going away unless you act now not latter.
Law enforcement requests military equipment directly
from the Pentagon’s war-fighting machine: tanks, machine guns, rocket
launchers, tear gas, camouflage, shields, and gas masks. Military equipment is
often purchased with so-called civil asset
forfeiture and illegal slush funds
which many times amounts to outright theft, to bypass legislative
appropriations challenges.
The high percentage of civilian law enforcement who are military
veterans (one in five, by some estimates) sometimes
it compounds the cultural risks of treating average Americans like enemy
combatants.
Showdowns between civilians and heavily armed agents of the state in
Waco Texas, Ruby Ridge Idaho, Ferguson, Baltimore,
the Oregon Wildlife
Refuge, southern Nevada, and at various other
political protests across the country should remind us that gun control
advocates won’t be reducing the number of guns so much as shifting them all
into either federal or criminal hands.
THE
BOTTOM LINE: The senseless murder in Las Vegas is a frighteningly
familiar tragedy. But it wasn’t perpetrated by a gun it was done by a deranged
man. So don't say "Americans shouldn't be allowed to buy guns" when
what you really mean is "citizens should become helpless and only be
allowed to pay for the guns purchased by their rulers."
We
established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles The
constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the
people; that
they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves
competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and
deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is
involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; and that it is their right and duty
to be at all times armed. --Thomas
Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. Memorial Edition 16:45, Lipscomb
and Bergh, editors.
Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the
right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom.
- de Andréa
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