Here's a simple thought experiment regarding the 2nd Amendment. What do you think the U.S. would be like if we didn't have it? [More]I've been saying this for years: As being armed acts as a deterrent on individual aggressors, so too does that work on a societal scale.
I've seen some deride that, and point to the mess we're in as corroboration.
It could be worse.
[Via Mack H]
“I’ve seen some deride that, and point to the mess we're in as corroboration."
ReplyDeleteYeah, these people can and should be roundly derided in return. When I point out that the areas of the US that have the most violent crime AND even “gun crime” are the places with the strictest gun control, I don’t know how many progressive lackwits have exhibited the idiocy to reply to me that if that gun control weren’t present, the situation in these places “would be even worse." These are invariably the same people who scream that relaxed purchase/carry laws will result in “blood in the streets” etc. None of them learn from the actual history of results after ratcheting weapons laws up or down — they take a stance in accordance with their own subjective, faulty intuition, then insist on it as if it were a law of physics.
In the "Black Dwarf" published in 1817 Thomas Wooler argued that the real freedom of Englishmen lay in their power and their will to uphold their liberties, not through the Constitution which was simply the "recorded merits of our ancestors"; not by blind trust in the protection of a constitution but by deeds. He warned "the higher orders think the best mode is to destroy the Constitution altogether and then their cause can run no further risk."
ReplyDeleteStill relevant!
Ma Duce
Some argue that we have what we have despite the U.S. Constitution and the Constitutions of the various states:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.renewamerica.com/columns/huldah/170710