It never ceases to amaze me how knee-jerk, anti-Second Amendment liberals are flushed out of the bushes, calling for even more gun laws every time the last rational synapse of a psychotic madman (or woman) flames out and said psycho goes on a murderous spree. This country should not deny the constitutional rights of the people for the heinous actions of the crazed few.
A criminal, by definition, does not obey the law. The Washington D.C. area sniper is killing people in a region with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. How can that be? Disarming honest, lawful citizens with even more gun ownership restrictions is not the answer. When will anti-Second Amendment liberals learn that legislating to the masses, for the sins of the few, only dumbs down the populace? Aspiring to the lofty heights of society’s lowest common denominators is wrong. Come on, surely we can be more creative than that. As free people, we should never allow any of our rights to be chipped away, ever, because they are never to be returned.
The right of self-defense is an inalienable one, bestowed upon us by God. The means to defend one’s self is greatly enhanced with the constitutionally protected right of firearm ownership. Just ask the supposedly safe citizens of Australia and Great Britain. Since their wholesale surrendering of firearm possession, hence the right of self-defense, violent armed crime has risen dramatically.
Lawful citizens of this nation thwart 2.4 million attempted crimes by the use or possession of a firearm, and, yes, many of those are kept in the home.
The founding fathers had the wisdom to include the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights for a reason: self-protection against tyranny, be it from a government or a criminal. The right to self defense should never be a crime.
Everett
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