{"id":65325,"date":"2021-02-28T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T08:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=65325"},"modified":"2021-02-28T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T08:22:58","slug":"a-short-primer-on-the-importance-of-our-second-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=65325","title":{"rendered":"A short primer on the importance of our Second Amendment rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a_short_primer_on_the_importance_of_our_second_amendment_rights.html#.YDnBvU1jMmo.twitter\">A short primer on the importance of our Second Amendment rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden&#8217;s had a lot on his plate. First, he erased America&#8217;s immigration laws by order government employees not to enforce them. Then he destroyed the economy by attacking the oil and gas that are essential for modern life. After that, he sowed some racial discord. Next, he insulted our only ally in the Middle East while sucking up to &#8220;Death to America&#8221; Iran. And that&#8217;s just the shortlist. But the people in charge haven&#8217;t forgotten one of their most important missions: to destroy the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the New York Times bent its efforts to the task via a Gail Collins column that starts to &#8220;nag&#8221; Biden about gun control:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You may be wondering how we\u2019re doing on gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden promised to tackle it on \u201cmy first day in office,\u201d which he didn\u2019t. You can appreciate that he\u2019s rather distracted. But absolutely no reason we shouldn\u2019t start to nag.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SaHJ2kQtLJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/SaHJ2kQtLJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gail Collins (@gailcollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gailcollins\/status\/1364925890560458752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not cute. It&#8217;s scary.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, here&#8217;s a very short primer explaining why Americans cannot allow the federal government to seize their guns, to set up the framework for seizing their guns at some time in the future, or to otherwise limit their existing Second Amendment rights:<\/p>\n<p><strong>One:<\/strong>\u00a0Without the Second Amendment, there is no Bill of Rights.\u00a0\u00a0As we&#8217;re learning, the Bill of Rights is a leash on the government and has meaning only if the government accepts that leash.\u00a0\u00a0If it throws off the leash and flexes its police power, the only recourse is to yield or fight \u2014 and you can&#8217;t fight without weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, let me be clear: we have not reached the physical fighting point.\u00a0\u00a0Thankfully, we are still a civil society with multiple civil, legal, and non-violent means for asserting our rights.\u00a0\u00a0Resisting now through these lawful mechanisms will ensure continued peace in America.\u00a0\u00a0Still, an armed society is a society respected by its own government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two:<\/strong>\u00a0There is no greater killer in the world than the government.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disastercenter.com\/crime\/uscrime.htm\">the last 59 years<\/a>, using a variety of weapons, Americans managed to kill around 1 million of each other, with the annual average from 2015 to 2019 being roughly 16,600.\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile, Americans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/data-visualizations\/firearms\/defensive-gun-uses-in-the-us\/\">defend themselves with guns<\/a>\u00a0between 500,000 and 3 million times a year.<\/p>\n<p>If a million murders in 59 years seems like a lot,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/SOD.CHAP1.HTM\">consider these numbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In 1915 alone, the Turks slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviets murdered around 7 million Ukrainian farmers who resisted socialism, as well as killing another 7 to 20 million people in their various purges.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, with its Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, China is estimated to have killed 23 to 50 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Over 12 years, the Nazis killed 6 million Jews, 250,000 gypsies, 220,000 homosexuals, and up to 10 million Slavic people.\u00a0\u00a0Those deaths were just a small part of a world war that is estimated to have led to the deaths of somewhere between 70 million and 85 million people.<\/p>\n<p>In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot killed 1.2 to 2.2 million people out of a population of 8 million.\u00a0\u00a0In America, that would have been equivalent to our government killing 66 to 85 million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three:\u00a0<\/strong>The only recourse people have against a rampaging government is arms.\u00a0\u00a0The Founders, who had waged a successful revolution against the most powerful military in the world, fully understood this.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, the spark that lit the revolution was the British\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mariomurilloministries.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/06\/the-american-revolution-was-against-british-gun-control\/\">attempt to disarm<\/a>\u00a0the colonists.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s why governments that are planning to rampage seize their citizens&#8217; weapons.\u00a0\u00a0(See, e.g.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.org\/guncontrol\/\">the Nazis<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four:\u00a0<\/strong>Gun control is insanely racist.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s true that the most likely people to be killed by guns are young black males, almost always\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2019\/12\/22\/the-need-to-discuss-black-on-black-crime\/\">at the hands of<\/a>\u00a0other young black males.\u00a0\u00a0That makes it sound as if seizing guns will benefit blacks.\u00a0\u00a0The contrary is true: when law-abiding citizens can defend themselves,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnrlott.tripod.com\/op-eds\/FoxNewsSupremeCourtGunBan.html\">the bad guys slink away<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The same\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jordanlewisring.com\/2018\/02\/26\/israel-gun-laws-protect\/#:~:text=When%20the%20knife%20intifada%20erupted%20in%20September%202015%2C,the%20number%20of%20armed%20civilians%20on%20the%20streets.\">happened in Israel<\/a>, incidentally, when the government loosened gun control laws during the knife intifada, which stopped it immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Five:<\/strong>\u00a0Crime goes up when governments ban guns.\u00a0\u00a0If you doubt that, just look at England: once it banned guns,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/1440764.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it became a country with violent crime<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johnrlott.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/so-did-piers-morgan-and-christiane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder rates consistent with South Africa&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and that&#8217;s not something any civilized country wants to boast about.\u00a0\u00a0(Here&#8217;s some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2013\/02\/13\/what-id-like-to-write-to-my-childs-teacher-about-his-gun-control-advocacy-in-class\/\">slightly outdated<\/a>, but still generally accurate, info on that point.)\u00a0\u00a0Additionally, when deprived of guns, criminals will find other ways to kill.\u00a0\u00a0Currently,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/knife-control-laws-in-london-where-does-it-end\/\">in London<\/a>, you&#8217;re not allowed to carry even dinner knives.\u00a0\u00a0Women, especially, are more vulnerable when denied guns, because they are no match physically for men.<\/p>\n<p>I promised to be brief, so I&#8217;ll stop now.\u00a0\u00a0Just remember that when Gail Collins starts to &#8220;nag&#8221; about gun control, the rights that keep you safe \u2014 safe to speak, assemble, and worship freely; safe from government death squads; and safe from bad people \u2014 are in the crosshairs.\u00a0\u00a0If you don&#8217;t speak up, you will lose the one right that makes all the others possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short primer on the importance of our Second Amendment rights Joe Biden&#8217;s had a lot on his plate. 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