Validation for the Second Amendment
In a former blog post- "cruel and unusual"- I wrote that, "if the government were ever to become incorrigibly corrupt, guns would give the people the power to change it." The founders wrote the second amendment, giving the common man the right to bear arms, to protect against tyranny. In Edward Gibbons 1776 classic "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," he says:
"Stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince." (vol. 1:3, p. 41)
'Stubborn commons,' that's us. Us with guns keeps U.S. from tyranny. If common Chinese people were allowed to have guns, the massacre of Tiannamen square wouldn't have happened, and China might today be a democracy.
This book gives greater insight into western civilization than even the Bible, for our government is more likely to obey the laws of tyranny than the laws of God. I recommend it.
"Stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince." (vol. 1:3, p. 41)
'Stubborn commons,' that's us. Us with guns keeps U.S. from tyranny. If common Chinese people were allowed to have guns, the massacre of Tiannamen square wouldn't have happened, and China might today be a democracy.
This book gives greater insight into western civilization than even the Bible, for our government is more likely to obey the laws of tyranny than the laws of God. I recommend it.
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