Actually I don't believe the thought behind the title of this post. It's actually a response to a blog post on the Chicago Tribune's Blog site, entitled "Repeal The 2nd Amendment".
It has always amazed me how the MSM wax so eloquently when it comes to their cherished right found in the 1st amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Very little is ever said by them of how great ANY other part of the constitution is except these 10 words in red above. Don't mess with their rights. Those rights belong to them.
Yet, when it comes to any other part of the Constitution, those 10 words seem to give them the right to edit the rest of the Constitution's text. How we elect presidents, according to Article Two of the Constitution, has been a press editor's dream to rewrite for at least the past 8 years. Another favorite of the press, to rewrite, has been the 2nd amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If the rest of the Constitution is so great, what's so scary about this little text? In a law abiding citizen's hands, a gun is no more dangerous than an automobile. Yet both can be deadly in a criminal's hand.
These founding fathers knew what they were doing. Two weapons in the hands of a country's citizens will keep tyrants at bay. Those two weapons? A free press to get the news out to citizens on the tyrant's ways, and a gun in a citizen's hand to protect and defend themselves from the same tyrant.
Lose either and we're that much closer to losing the rest of the freedoms we have.
So, repeal the 2nd amendment? Might as well repeal the 1st as well. Neither are worth much without the other.
-Colonel Steve
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