Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

The Second Amendment, "The American Disease"


Tim Lambert, my often sparring partner and proprietor of the blog Deltoid, has a fascinating quote from Australia's Prime Minister John Howard up in a recent post of his:
(W)e will find any means we can to further restrict them because I hate guns. I don’t think people should have guns unless they're police or in the military or in the security industry. There is no earthly reason for people to have … ordinary citizens should not have weapons. We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.
And this is precisely why the Second Amendment was included to codify the right to arms in our Constitution - so that our so-called "civil servants" could never, in fact, become our civil masters. It's not about "sport," it's about control, and the Founders understood that to their bones.

I personally don't give a shit if John Howard or Diane Feinstein or Chucky Schumer or anybody else in high office in any country or any organization around the world "hates guns." I'm a sovereign citizen of the United States of America. You AREN'T GETTING MINE unless you want the projectiles first, and in this country attempting to take them puts you in material violation of the fundamental law of the land.

I've drawn my line - this far, no further.

At least here we have (for the moment) put the gun-grabbers on the defensive for a change.

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