Ultra-ultra crap-for-brains o’ the day<\/p>\n
Op-ed claims Founding Fathers would want gun control<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m a big believer in the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. It\u2019s why I\u2019m a Second Amendment advocate. The way I see it, our Founding Fathers put together a document that did a pretty good job of limiting the government and securing our rights.<\/p>\n Too bad it\u2019s ignored, such as the push for gun control.<\/p>\n But with frightening regularity, there comes someone who seems to act like they held a s\u00e9ance with the Founding Fathers and knows that their past words in support of the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms would go out the window.<\/p>\n People such as this<\/a>:<\/p>\n The tragic shootings in Nashville, with children and staff at the Covenant School being killed, demands action from Congress. But so many times we have seen Congress do nothing after gun violence.<\/p>\n If America\u2019s Founding Fathers could have traveled in time to today, they would be horrified to see these mass shootings in our schools and communities. They would also be shocked that the Congress has done so little to stop these tragedies.<\/p>\n The Founding Fathers, if they could have foreseen the terror of today, would surely have revised the Second Amendment. They would urge us to implement gun control today.<\/p>\n There must be some limitations on the right to bear arms of the Second Amendment. There must be gun control including banning assault weapons. As the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote \u201cLike most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n First, while I respect the late Justice Scalia, he wasn\u2019t a Founding Father. Injecting his comment, one often taken drastically out of context, isn\u2019t making the case.<\/p>\n The author here, like so many others, claims the Founding Fathers wouldn\u2019t have supported the right they literally fought and bled for if they could see the bad things happening today.<\/p>\n Yet they offer no evidence for such a claim. Nothing in their writings of the time suggested they were in favor of forfeiting the right to keep and bear arms simply because people could do bad things.<\/p>\n In fact, that claim flies directly in the face of something one of our Founding Fathers said explicitly. Thomas Jefferson said, \u201cI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.\u201d That tells me that yes, he\u2019d look at what we see today, and while he would mourn those lost lives, there\u2019s little reason to believe he\u2019d suddenly want to restrict people\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n The Buckeye Firearms Association has\u00a0a very handy list<\/a>\u00a0of other pro-gun quotes from our Founding Fathers, none of which suggest even a hint of support for the idea of gun control.<\/p>\n See, what the author has done is convince himself of a fiction, that the Founding Fathers are whatever he wants to believe them to be. Further, since so many of us look to them for guidance on matters of policy, he somehow hopes he\u2019ll suddenly be the one to trick us into supporting gun control.<\/p>\n That\u2019s really not how it works. You can\u2019t just say, \u201cThey\u2019d support me,\u201d then just expect people to shrug and accept it.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s also remember that in the time of the founding, private parties owned artillery and equipped their own private warships\u2013letters of marque were a thing, after all\u2013which could lay waste to people in numbers even the much vilified AR-15 couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n If they were willing to trust the American people with that, then just why would you assume they\u2019d suddenly support gun control? The fact that you just really, really want them to isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n Yet this is what passes for reasoning, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ultra-ultra crap-for-brains o’ the day Op-ed claims Founding Fathers would want gun control I\u2019m a big believer in the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. It\u2019s why I\u2019m a Second Amendment advocate. 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