(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.)
“Firearms stand next to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence… The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” (Often spuriously attributed to George Washington).
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership report that Tyrannical governments always disarm their victim citizens. Disarmament happened in Turkey, the Soviet Union, in the German Weimar Republic, in Communist China, in Uganda, in Cambodia and in too many other lands. Genocide so often followed disarmament during the 20th century that generalization can be made that confiscation of firearms is a prelude to genocide. The Afghan Penal Code of 1976 had only one provision against ownership of firearms, and that was by criminals. Other than this one law, Afghan ownership of firearms was unrestricted. An indomitable will to resist coupled with ownership of firearms permitted this people to withstand the armed might of the Soviet Union, and I remark tongue in cheek, also of these United States of America.
Our Declaration of Independence contains these proud words:
“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” Furthermore, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”Continue reading“Our Trying Modern Times – Part 2, by Steve Vandiver”