When we last counted in 2017, there were 393 million civilian-owned guns in America. That’s about 1.2 guns for every man, woman, and child in the United States, and 3 years later, I’m sure that ratio has only grown.
We need to do better.
By that I mean- we need more guns. A lot more guns. More powerful ones too. Full automatics, miniguns, rocket launchers, tanks, and drones capable of carrying missiles. Civilians should be able to own them all. Call me an extremist.
Why our second amendment exists
The 2nd amendment reads as follows:
“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.”
Centuries of judicial rulings have confirmed that this is an individual right to bear arms, but few people seem to fully understand what the second amendment is for. It’s not there so you can bag a deer during hunting season, or shoot beer cans in your backyard. It’s not meant to protect recreation or gun culture. It’s not even there for self-defense, although I’m all for concealed carry and self-defense.
No, the 2nd amendment was written to protect us from a tyrannical government.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” – Declaration of Independence, 1776
The founders, whose states were being oppressed under the rule of King George, knew there was only one way to throw off a tyrannical government, and that is with a fully armed, free citizenry.
Our government is arming up
This year, we are set to spend $738 billion to arm up the military. They are building F-35 Fighter Jets, AH-64E Attack Helicopters, Boeing Super Hornets, B21 Stealth Bombers, Navy Destroyers, Predator Drones, Abrams Tanks, and attack submarines, to name just a few. We are tripling the firepower of what was already the greatest military force the world has ever seen. What happens when we elect leaders willing to use that vast firepower against their own citizens?
Dad’s break-action shotgun won’t stand a chance.
Call me crazy or paranoid, but it’s not as much of a stretch as you may think. In 2011, Obama approved the drone killing of a Denver born, 16-year-old American citizen named Abdulrahman, along with his 17-year-old cousin and several innocent teenagers in Yemen. This kind of extrajudicial killing didn’t end with Obama. In 2017, Trump ordered another strike in Yemen that among others, killed Abdulrahman’s 8-year-old little sister.
On our own shores, we now see local police with armored assault vehicles. We saw our government’s willingness to use military force against ranchers in Oregon for daring to let their cattle graze on Federal land. Recently in Virginia, state rep Donald McEachin suggested calling out the National Guard to enforce new gun control legislation.
The blood of patriots and tyrants
I’m thankful for our great military. I respect our incredible police officers. I don’t want to be an alarmist, but history and the law of thermodynamics tell us that all governments naturally tend toward tyranny. It may seem unthinkable to us now, but the time will come when our government “evinces a design to reduce us under absolute Despotism.” It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.
When that time comes, the tree of freedom will once again need to be refreshed, as Thomas Jefferson said, “with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It’s an awful and almost unthinkable thought from where we sit, in our safe, prosperous time, but the time will come. Hopefully far in the future.
Until then, I advocate for responsible, well-regulated communities arming up. I want to see a tricked out tank in every garage and a predator drone with a sick paint job in every backyard. I want one of those vaporizing alien guns from District 9. Elon Musk, get on that.
Ok, I’m exaggerating a little, but hopefully you get my point. I believe that citizens and states should be allowed to own whatever firepower will defend them from the Federal Government’s firepower. That’s the point of the 2nd amendment.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go ask my wife to let me buy another gun.
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