{"id":72683,"date":"2021-09-29T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72683"},"modified":"2021-09-29T04:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:54:23","slug":"72683","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72683","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court dealt with this in Heller. <\/em>That the gun grabbers still try to roll it out merely indicates they have nothing left but BS.<\/p>\n

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UNDOING THE MUSKET ARGUMENT<\/a><\/p>\n

While Virginia gun owners are trying to take back their state this month from the radical far-left that pushed through most of Ralph Northam\u2019s extremist gun control agenda in 2020, elsewhere around the country anti-gunners will once again fall back on their favorite boilerplate arguments to do the same in your state.<\/p>\n

You can have some fun with these people, while teaching them a lesson and making the extremists look really foolish.
\nGood for the goose \u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lost count of the occasions when someone has tossed up the argument that at the time the Second Amendment was written, there weren\u2019t modern firearms. The Amendment, they argue, should only apply to muskets and flintlock rifles.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how I\u2019ve responded to the premise: \u201cLook, if you want to roll back the clock and calendar, I\u2019m game. But remember, if that\u2019s where you want to take this debate, there are a few things to consider.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 When the Bill of Rights \u2014 for which the Second Amendment is the cornerstone \u2014 was adopted, we didn\u2019t have television or radio, no cable channels, no web offset presses for mass-producing newspapers or the Internet and social media. So, under your suggestion, they wouldn\u2019t be protected by the First Amendment, right?<\/p>\n

\u2022 We didn\u2019t have organized police departments, and if criminals came to your home, you were expected to deal with the problem, not call 9-1-1 for help because they didn\u2019t have telephones, either.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nobody needed a license or permit to carry a firearm. There were no background checks. It was not unusual to encounter armed citizens doing business in towns and villages, and no one raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n

Naturally, they\u2019ll try to ridicule these remarks but the Bill of Rights is an all-or-nothing proposition. It\u2019s not a legal buffet from which you can pick and choose those rights you like while discarding those you don\u2019t. The Bill of Rights is a 10-course banquet and it\u2019s still today\u2019s menu, not yesterday\u2019s blue plate special.<\/p>\n

This would be a good time to remind your opponent the U.S. Supreme Court could be taking on more Second Amendment cases to further define the parameters of the right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has made a habit of contending the Second Amendment is \u201cnot absolute.\u201d Five months ago, when he announced his \u201cComprehensive Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gun Crime and Ensure Public Safety,\u201d he told a gaggle of reporters, \u201cThe Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn\u2019t buy a cannon.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is demonstrably false. Mississippi River keel boats were frequently armed with swivel guns; small cannons used to fend off river pirates or raiding war parties. Some on the frontier owned cannons to defend their stockades. Privateers sailed with cannons.
\nLast year, when quizzed about Biden\u2019s campaign assertion regarding cannon ownership, a fact checker consulted David Kopel, research director and Second Amendment project director at the Colorado-based Independence Institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not aware of a ban on any arm in colonial America,\u201d Kopel said at the time. \u201cThere were controls on people or locations, but not bans on types of arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2020, when the Biden campaign was questioned about his cannon allegation, a fact checker wrote in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, \u201cthe campaign was unable to come up with an example of a law banning private ownership of cannons, and historians of the period doubt that any existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where Humor Stops<\/span><\/p>\n

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The musket and cannon debate is admittedly prone to silliness but opinions such as Biden\u2019s suggest a horribly shallow knowledge of history and no willingness to learn the facts, either among the public or the establishment media. They allow gun prohibitionists, including the president, to get away with such nonsense without challenge.<\/p>\n

This is where grassroots Second Amendment activists step in. This column has encouraged readers to write letters to the editor, or be so bold as to write an Op-Ed for the local newspaper. We\u2019re heading into late autumn and soon it will be winter. Of course hunting seasons are under way, but set aside a little time for gun rights research and get busy writing.<\/p>\n

There is ample material from which to draw for such a project. The National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation are excellent sources, and one can go on a search engine and simply look for information about \u201cGun Control\u201d or \u201cGun Rights\u201d and start studying.<\/p>\n

This is not for laughs. You\u2019re trying to educate people who haven\u2019t made up their minds and the most important thing is to explain how Rights are different from Privileges. When Joe Biden, or some other anti-gunner declares, \u201cNobody needs 100 rounds for deer hunting,\u201d remind them the Second Amendment is not about hunting, it\u2019s about prohibiting the government from stepping on your rights.<\/p>\n

Keep your writing terse and on topic; short sentences, proper spelling and punctuation. Put your name, address and telephone number on it. Do not plagiarize someone else\u2019s work. If you quote someone else, put it in quotation marks and provide attribution.<\/p>\n

Offer yourself as a source to local reporters. Be someone they will want to contact for the \u201cother side\u201d of any story on guns. Build your credibility by telling the truth, providing honest assessments of situations, understanding firearms and being able to explain the differences between military arms and modern sporting rifles.<\/p>\n

One year from this month, America will hold its mid-term elections. If you want things to change, you\u2019re going to have to vote and get everyone you know to vote. In 1994, frustrated citizens changed the face of Congress by throwing out more than 50 anti-gun politicians who voted for the Brady Law in 1993 and the Clinton Crime Bill with its 10-year ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d and original capacity magazines. Bill Clinton was effectively neutered for the rest of his time in office.<\/p>\n

The time has come to do it again. If you entertain, even for a heartbeat, any notion the party now in power doesn\u2019t want to turn your Second Amendment right into a heavily regulated privilege, you are woefully na\u00efve.<\/p>\n

The nomination of David Chipman earlier this year to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wasn\u2019t a signal; it was an open declaration of war on America\u2019s gun owners. Here we are five months later. Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court dealt with this in Heller. That the gun grabbers still try to roll it out merely indicates they have nothing left but BS. UNDOING THE MUSKET ARGUMENT While Virginia gun owners are trying to take back their state this month from the radical far-left that pushed through most of Ralph Northam\u2019s extremist … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72684,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683\/revisions\/72684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}