Guns and The Power of Free People
With University shootings like Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, and various others, the issue of gun control will fire headlines as citizens demand solutions. Where will these solutions lead a Nation which is losing Liberty and Privacy almost daily with the passing of new Legislation and Presidential Executive Orders?
The fallacy of ‘gun free zones’
If you’ve driven through school campuses you’ve surely seen the signage ‘gun free zone’, perhaps with a notation about the referenced law. This has to be one of the most ignorant and dangerous laws ever to be written. There is no possible way to enforce this law! All that a ‘gun free zone’ law can do is disarm law abiding citizens. In what way can a metal sign prohibit someone from bringing a gun on campus and shooting anyone in their sites?
These laws are written to provide a false sense of security to students and faculty. The only way a ‘gun free zone’ would work would be to:
1) Create a prison atmosphere at all ‘gun free zones’ with chain link and razor wire.
2) Completely search every car as it entered the campus.
3) Have a metal detector and armed guard at the entranceway to each and every building.
Even these 3 simple steps would not prevent someone from bringing a firearm onto these properties if they so desired. Why write a law, which effectively prevents law abiding citizens from protecting their own life, which you can’t even enforce? Citizens should demand, in the very least, that ‘gun free zone’ laws either be completely enforced - or immediately repealed. Thanks to these liberal ‘let’s depend on the government - rather than ourselves‘ laws, students and faculty continue to remain sitting ducks. When will people realize that the best defense against armed crazies is the private individual citizen?
In regards to the Virginia Tech Massacre, Townhall.com reported that Last year Virginia legislators considered a bill that would have overridden policies at public universities that prohibit students and faculty members with concealed handgun permits from bringing their weapons onto campus. After the bill died in committee, The Roanoke Times reported, Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker welcomed its defeat, saying, “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
Yes - I’m sure they all ‘felt’ safer, my point exactly. Thanks Larry, I’m sure the people feel much safer with your ‘gun free zone’ - there’s nothing like East Coast University Mentality. It’s no surprise that Northern Illinois University was likewise a ‘gun free zone’.
Flaws of Democracy and Human Nature
The problem with Democracy is that a person’s vote affects not only themselves - but the lives of every other citizen. Because it is not the voter alone who suffers the consequences of his vote; because each vote touches and affects everyone in the entire community; because the people in the community have a right to demand some safeguards concerning the acts upon which their welfare and existence depend - Frederic Bastiat, The Law.
Flaws in Human Nature permit voters to relinquish reality for imposed realities. Rather than accepting that absolute security is impossible, instead my brothers encompass themselves with the cheerfulness of false realities. Those we create in our minds. Do you think that students feel safer at a campus with metal signs stating ‘gun free zone’ than students at Universities in Utah where permit holders are allowed to carry concealed weapons - not only protecting themselves but each other?
The solution is to restrict the law, safeguarding the rights we hold as Individuals. We live in a country whose government is supposedly of the people, by the people, and for the people. A Constitutional Republic based on elected Representatives that must govern according to existing Constitutional Law that limits the government’s power over citizens. In other words, voters within a democracy do not have the right to use the power of government to override individual rights - such as those provided in the Bill of Rights. And yet little by little, in the name of public safety and National Security, the Bill of Rights is being eroded.
Our Rights have been eroded in the name of an ever demanding restricive Government, which seeks strict power and control over the populace. For the sake of America, these laws should be rejected - and the proponents of such laws held accountable. The power of free men and women is guaranteed in a society where citizens are permitted to arm themselves. I’m willing to accept the tribulations of a free and armed populace - in exchange for our ability as a collective group of citizens to protect ourselves from Tyranny and the ever increasing powers of a Federal Government managed for the pleasure and whims of a handful of Elitists.
The 2nd Amendment
Amendment II
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.
In my College American History textbook “The American Pageant” authors Thomas Baily and David Kennedy decide to insert their own political agenda into the Bill of Rights by reprinting it as;
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. [i.e., for military purposes].
Thanks for clarifying what the Founders meant with your liberal spin. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to guarantee that self governed states would maintain the ability to protect themselves from Tyranny by having an armed citizenry. That by citizens having the right to keep and bear arms, government ‘authority’ would be kept in check, insuring that Individual Rights as well as States Rights would not be trampled upon.
Big Government and Big Brother should be shunned in favor of private companies and private citizens protecting themselves. The illusion of Government provided security measures should be rejected for one very important reason. The purpose of these laws is to remove the center of power away from our citizens and towards the?Government.
Currently America is divided on the issue of gun control. Americans want to maintain Individual Rights and the 2nd Amendment - but then also create false illusions of ‘gun free zones’ (micro-versions of a gun free America). The massacres we have witnessed at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, and other institutions are a result of the ongoing legal conflict surrounding the gun control issue. Until Citizens wake up to the impracticality of ‘gun free zones’, the killings will continue.
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