Reagan on Guns
This fellow sure was wise beyond his age.
There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism—government. Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it.
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A couple of overlooked points: the founding fathers listed the freedoms in the Bill of Rights in a descending order of importance: speech and religion are listed first as they are crucial to free people, to defend one's self is second. If the right to bear arms is a "collective" right why then do the founders use the phrase, "the right of the people" in the 2nd Amendment as they used it in the 1st & 4th to indicate a personal right?
Posted by: Jeff at April 25, 2007 01:50 AM (2nDll)
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An excellent point that the left simply explains away as something they don't like. Very clearly and obviously; it was meant as a personal right. But that disagrees with the agenda of the left, so they claim not to see that.
Posted by: Ogre at April 25, 2007 10:59 AM (oifEm)
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Posted by: gow at February 12, 2013 08:48 AM (Rlq5Z)
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