Guns and Tyranny
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
“That’ll never happen here,” is the response I hear whenever I discuss the potential of tyranny in America. To suggest that life in these United States could possibly deteriorate into something profoundly different from the America we currently live in is just not possible to most people.
I was talking to a gentleman who moved to the United States from Venezuela, recently. He was a business owner in the wealthy South American country. “We were the gem of South America,” he told me, “so when we voted in a socialist twenty years ago, and some people warned at what socialism could do to our country, we said to each other, ‘Not here. In other countries, maybe, but tyranny could never come to our modern society.’”
Today, Venezuela is among the poorest countries in the world, and suffering under the iron fist of tyranny.
I am sure there were those, before the succession of tyrannical Caesars in Rome, who said, “Tyranny can never come here. We are too sophisticated to allow tyranny to rise in our Republic.”
One wonders what they were saying in Greece before Alexander the Great, or in Germany before the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II or the rise of Adolph Hitler.
Anson Kaye, writing for U.S. News and World Report in an article January 24, 2013, Guns and the Tyranny of Extreme Rhetoric, wrote what I believe to be what most gun control advocates think. “The argument that assault rifles are necessary to protect against tyranny is a lunatic idea,” is the sub-headline. In the article Kaye calls the potential for tyranny in America an “invisible elephant” in the room that does not exist.
- 1: Well regulated Militia – A militia that is in good order.
- 2: Militia – George Mason said the militia “consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.” Having a distrust of those who gain position and power, and realizing that often it is those people who become a part of the rising tyranny, he added, “But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but they may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people.” That said, the militia is essentially all who are willing to take up arms against tyranny, should it rise up in America. The rich and powerful, or at least a large portion of them, will probably be at the other end of the rifle.
- 3: Security of a free State – To keep the States free from invaders and foreign despots the federal government has a military in place. So, the security of a free State, in the language of the Second Amendment, is not necessary against foreign invaders. Then who, pray tell, was the Founding Fathers referring to? If you read the Preamble to the Bill of Rights, it explains that the purpose of the Bill of Rights was to add “declaratory and restrictive clauses” to the Constitution for the purpose of “prevent[ing] misconstruction or abuse of its [federal government's] powers.” Therefore, what the Second Amendment is saying is that our right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed because it is necessary to secure the freedom of each of the States against the potential tyranny (misconstruction and abuse of powers) by the federal government.
- A. Liberty never goes out of style.
- B. Tyranny never changes its stripes.
- C. Socialism is actually an older idea than our relatively young Constitution. The concept of self-governance through a constitutional republic with checks and balances against tyranny is an idea that had never been tried before, and is barely older than 230 years. Socialism (collectivism, communalism, communatarianism, progressivism, utopianism) has been tried over and over and over throughout history, and it has failed every time, leaving in its wake starvation, misery and death. There is nothing progressive about progressivism. It is simply trying to use the same old round blocks, and trying to shove them into the same old square holes. It has never worked, and it can never work. It is a failed idea that is much more ancient than the principles of liberty found in the U.S. Constitution.
– Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Source: http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2020/04/guns-and-tyranny.html
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It should be obvious to us all.
BAN the Demoncrap party. They support sodomy. Two top, top, Demoncrap party members were WAPIST. To other top Demoncrap members were into interracial sodomy and were BUSTED recently. They support mass immigration of country-destroying TURD world immigrants.
Many seem to be involved in espionage and treason with the enemy but have never been investigated or arrested if you can believe that? One party member was even made your “President” twice despite not having qualified in a key constitutional requirement. He was also too a SODOMITE and one NOT of your tribe. We suffered greatly under him.
We simply have been too nice to them and enough is enough of their dangerous high TREASON which is dangerous and should be obvious to you by now, but instead is oblivious.
MASS HANGINGS required or they’ll soon hang you all. It always comes down to either you or them and it is always THEY that FARCE your hand and why the forefathers were wise enough to keep you ARMED but those in power never kept you ready as required through deception.
Again, America. I ask you, where is your WELL-REGULATED MILITIA? On that’s right. Nobody Reads Amendments thanks to the uhh, NRA.
Guess what boyz. The NRA, Gun Owners of America and other gun rights groups ARE well regulated militias. These well regulated militias are what keeps people like Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff and other socialist and anti constitutionals at bay. They accuse Trump of wanting to be a dictator. If this is true would he be a protector of the second amendment????? The Democrats speak of these pro second amendment gun rights groups as a sinister single entity but in truth they are a collective paying membership of millions of United States citizen protectors of the constitution.
Are they 100+ mlliion plus strong, Pierre?
Poor attempt to convince us and so REFUND my $49 subscription. Reading a mag and receiving an NRA bag is NOT a well-regulated militia.