There may
be many reasons for the 2nd amendment. Let us examine the most important.
This blog is in response to Dr. Jeffery Fiske's opinion as found in the Williamsburg Gazette. Dr. Fiske had written about the reasons why the 2nd amendment should be altered or removed.
Being of the thought every opinion published requires respect of
our fair and most honorable local Gazette, I would like to offer discourse to
Dr. Jeffery Fiske at el. I will provide my dissertation in the same length of
writing as Dr. Jeffery Fiske as this topic does not bear witness to 250 words
or less. Within these writings, we will attempt to offer an argument for the
2nd Amendment concerning all.
To proceed let us start with the words of the Declaration of
Independence (DOI) and end with natures first right to self-defense. My dear
fellow citizens bear witness to the following words found in the (DOI).
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of 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.”
Layman’s Terms:
It is the right of the people to alter or to abolish government,
and institute a new government. We might do so if our safety and happiness were
to be subjected to authoritarian rule. Examples of authoritarian rule:
Socialist Democracy, communism, and tyranny.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn, that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed.”
Layman’s Terms:
A long-established government in these United States of America is
a republic form of governance. Our forefathers warned us not to change for
light and transient causes. What this means is, a cause originating or having
an effect outside an entity. When a group of people within our government
decides to promote socialist democracy in place of a republic, we should have
cause for concern for our happiness and safety.
But 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.
Layman’s terms:
Despotism can be defined as the exercise of absolute power,
especially in a cruel and oppressive way. Usurpation can be described as a
means of taking someone’s power or property by force. If this were to happen to
our republic or I believe if we the people were to witness abuses, usurpations,
and despotism then we the people have the right to throw off such government
and or attempted takeover of our republic. Examples of an attempted takeover of
power and an attempt to take one’s property by force.
1. ACA healthcare, free
college tuition, all of the carrots they now dangle before you, will take
ownership from citizens by force to give to others without the permission of
the owner.
2. The New Green Deal: If
implemented by socialist democrats will force you to a standard of living
without your consent. Will take from you, your property and power to pursue
happiness and safety within the dictates of your own reason.
“–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies, and such
is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of
Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let
Facts be submitted to a candid world.” Let us here offer our facts of Tyranny,
if Socialist Democrats take power. In the interest of space, I will provide
four.
1. The New Green Deal: If
implemented by socialist democrats will force you to a standard of living
without your consent. Will take from you, your property and power to pursue
happiness and safety within the dictates of your own reason.
2. Abolishing of the
Electoral college. This right and protection afforded, we the people, should be
held close and safe to our bosom. For if we allow a socialist type of
government to take from us this right, we have the right to make back this
ethical and proper principal by force and as needed.
3. Reparations for the
Black community. Socialist Democrats have now offered another carrot for
consumption albeit empty of calories. This is another example of the use of
tyrannist like authority to take from one without permission and give another,
undeservingly mind you, for nothing more than the premise of the vote. In other
words, the socialist democrat is trying to buy an election with citizen
achievements.
4. The disposition of the
2nd Amendment. If the citizen right to natures first law of self-defense is in
some manner, abolished, severely restricted or mandatory gun confiscation, we
the people have every right to throw the government off.
It is, in fact, our right per the (DOI) to determine the
individual's fate and pursuit of happiness. It is our right to expect
reasonable safety. It is the citizens right to protect our republic and to
protect the Constitution of these United States and its Amendments. It is our
duty per the (DOI) to cast off those who wantonly will take from us without our
permission. We must provide guards for the security of our republic, our
pursuit of happiness and our safety. We the people have the right to cast off
by force and as needed a socialist, communist or tyrannical form of government.
Dr. Fiske writes,“with the advent of professional law enforcement,
the need for the 2nd Amendment is no longer needed. This is a false statement.
Dr. Fiske writes the second amendment was written for citizens who live remote.
This too is a misconception. The police
can never be there to protect you at all times, and it does not matter if you
live in a city or are remote. Every citizen has the right to natures first
right of self-defense and the second amendment gives you that right. In,
District of Columbia vs. Heller, the Supreme court ruled, that a federal
handgun ban violates the Second Amendment. In McDonald v. Chicago, the justices
held that state and local governments also could not prohibit handguns. These
decisions debunk the ideas of remote only.
I offer the following for consideration: The 2nd amendment and why
it is so essential to our pursuit of happiness and safety. Our forefathers
wrote the Declaration of Independence and listed the reasons why and grievances
against, the King of England. During the revolutionary war, ordinary citizens
took up arms against a tyrannical government. Lives were lost, and freedoms
were won. We were an armed citizenry willing to fight for our beliefs. Without
weapons, we would have had no recourse but to be subjected to King rule. When our forefathers wrote the second
amendment, they kept in mind the first law, natures right to self-defense. I
think we are again at this critical moment in history, where we may have to
decide to fight a tyrannical government should socialist democrat’s take
control of our government and enforce the listed grievances at el.
