Enemies Within ; Enemies Without

Threats to our safety come from two sources: exthernal and internal - those outside the nation and those within. People who clamor for gun registration and cry that we should deny gun owndership have naively ignored the internal thread - that which comes from a government run amok. They have failed to see that those we trust sometimes betray us. Gun restrictions invite our civitimization by internal forces.

 

How unwise! Surely this is like protecting your property from mountain lions while ignoring the wolves in the front yard.

 

Follwing are exceprts on the threat from internal forces from Promises of the Constitution: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, pp. 232-33

 

Every successful, prosperous nation must defend itself against enemies, including those within the governemtn. A major part of our protection comes from the Second Amendment, which reads: Because a well-regulated state militia is necessary for the security of a free people, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed by the federal government."

 

The Senate subcommitte on the Constitution, in its 1982 report entitled The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, investigated and reported the intent of the Founding Fathers on this topic. The subcommittee states: "The conclusion is thus inedscapable that the . . . Second Amendment . . . indicates that . . . [the] inidividual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner" is our constitutional right.

 

If the government takes weapons from peaceable citizens, it leaves them at the mercy of criminals and despots. History demonstrates that a nation sliding into despotism typically forces gun registration, then provokes an incident that "requires" the confiscation of weapons. George Masion, [a] drafter of the [Constitution and the] Virginia Bill of Rights, accused the British of having plotted "to disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way to enslave them."

 

History begs us to not forget that we bear arms to protect ourselves from enemies without, and within, the government.

 

Citizens, beware!

 

- Pam