Mike Vanderboegh has written an open letter in reply to a sheltered professor's ill-reasoned rant.
My Dear Jeffery,
You really ought not extrapolate from your own cowardice and impute your own weeniehood to the self-reliant citizens you seek to disarm. If you truly believe the 2nd Amendment is obsolete, then I suggest you and your friends abolish it and watch what happens. And do it quickly please, while I'm still young enough to fight in the civil war you start.
Just because you would cave to any government diktat does not mean we would. Indeed, I can just about guarantee that at least 10% of us gunowners are "cold dead hands" types, which means you'll have to kill upwards of 8.5 million of us to accomplish your goal. Remember, we're the ones with the guns, and we will not go gently into that good collectivist night.
Aren't you the least bit concerned that folks who are willing to die for their country might be willing to kill for it too? Certainly we would intend to sell ourselves as dearly as possible. And do you think that we would fail to include the people who urged the policy upon such an oppressive government? There are no free lunches, Jeffery. So please, be careful what you wish for, you may get it. But hey, if you feel lucky, go ahead and abolish the 2nd Amendment. You'll find out just how "obsolete" the Founders' concept of the citizen militia really is.
Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
Disclaimer: No weenie college professors were actually harmed in the creation of this email.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
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4 comments:
The second amendment prevents politicians from making an error that will get them all hanged from lamp posts.
I for one am a "Cold dead hands" member. I'm sure most of us also have enough ammo on hand to hold off a small army, or swat team.
Ivory Tower Idiotarian to the bone! In cases like these, I like to quote Alan Dershowitz:
"Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming that it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like."
This is from a guy who is certainly not a conservative...
I'm in agreement with the Mad Hatter. What troubles me are the efforts freedom loving liberals will go through to abolish the second most important ammendment in the Bill of Rights. They hem and haw about comma placement and usage of the word milita, but don't take a moment to think about how outraged they'd get when someone does the same thing to our other Constitutionally protected liberties. It's like they expect freedom comes without cost. Hell, the whole reason we even have a Bill of Rights is because the founding fathers didn't trust the gubment enough to not outlaw inherent freedoms.
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