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The Ultimate Doomsday Provision: “Designed For Those Exceptionally Rare Circumstances Where All Other Rights Have Failed”
Though the following 2002 court case ended with the liberal Ninth Circuit ruling that, “the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution does not guarantee individuals the right to bear arms,” at least one judge stood in dissent.
In his dissent, Judge Alex Kozinski argued with the very reasoning our founding fathers used to include the right to bear arms in the U.S. Constitution to begin with.
It may be a decade since the Ninth Circuit attempted to rewrite our fundamental law of the land (a move that was eventually nullified by the U.S. Supreme Court), but Kozinski’s views on our right to bear arms ring as true to Americans today as they did over two hundred years ago when our founders argued the same.
But we shouldn’t take Kozinski’s views simply as opinion. His is a lesson of history, and one that the likes of Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Franklin knew well. It’s not often discussed in our pedagogic institutions, nor in the political playing field, because it is considered too controversial of a topic, especially in today’s hyper-sensitive anti-self defense pro-state culture:
All too many of the other great tragedies of history – Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few – were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history.
The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late.
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Judge Alex Kozinski dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003) (full text)
We may live in a relatively peaceful and open society, but it is our right to bear arms that has made it possible.
Take that away, and in due time, a dark cloud of tyranny will inevitably descend upon the land of the free.
The storm clouds are already on the horizon.
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 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”
Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
Hattip Watchman
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But wait, couldn’t the Conservative Supreme Court chose to listen to an appeal of the case and overruled? Please do not make blanket statements about liberals or conservatives, you only play into the delusion that those in power who call them selves democrats or republicans are really the same. These actions were placed into planning a long time ago, culminating into what we call the patriot act today. Both democrats (Clinton’s, Gore’s, Obama’s) and Republicans (Reagan, Bush Senior, and Bush Junior) all played a part into the planning. Start waking up and realize there are many many liberals who stand beside you on this issue, for I am one of them. We are all more alike than we are different, and if we focus on where we agree, they can not stop us!
Those who will give up their rights to bare arms are doomed. We who do bare armes are the last front of freedom worldwide. You have a choice now, but for how long? Stand with the tyrants or the people who care about life and liberty.
Folks, i’ve lived in a country, where the folks could not own guns. I was glad to come back to the land of the red, white, and blue! The right to self-preservation, overrides any bull-headed idea to make no one own a gun! Criminals always have, and always will, anywhere in the world, get a gun when and if they need one. When those elected, start telling us what is good for us, it’s time to elect them out of office. YOU are the last line of defense of YOU, not me, not your Congressman, not the cops.
All of the folks, and i hope that is NOT who are reading this, that scream for “government to take care of things”, are lazy, ignorant, and deserve all the “knee-time” that “government” is going to demand of them.
Not me! I did not have “government” help me get a job. I did not have “government” help me get a life! I will NOT allow “government” to tell me how to do, anything.
Me? Get rid of my guns? Only, in your midnight dreams!