The Second Amendment

The Second Amendment

“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.”

The Second Amendment is a single sentence and a simple one at that. So, why are so many people and politicians unclear on what it says? A lot of politicians would rather you didn’t know and their useful idiot supporters are all too eager to spout off all kinds of nonsense to muddy the water. Perhaps some people really don’t know though so, here is a brief word by word breakdown of what the Second Amendment says and means.

Well Regulated: predictable, working, practiced, equipped, ready

Militia: volunteer unpaid civilians 18 year or older who equip and train themselves (not military, that is different and separately covered under article 1)

Necessary: required, something that you must have

Security: to guard, to keep safe from harm and to be ready to do so, to possess a state of being

Free State: a people not governed by force but by their own personal responsibility that is an integral part of liberty, not a police state

“,” : Very important! A comma in a sentence distinguishes two separate thoughts that are a part of a whole. In this case the comma separates the reason for the right from the declaration of the right and the protection provided for it.

Right: pre-existing condition bestowed by God

The People: everybody, not limited to police, or military, or even just the volunteer militia,

To Keep: to permanently posses, to own

Bear: to carry, to have with you on your person, to have in hand

Arms: any means of defense, Examples include but are not limited to guns, knives, swords, clubs, bows, spears, axes, etc.

Shall Not: legal imperative phrase commanding that no action be taken

Infringed: to impose upon, to violate boundary, to impair, or make difficult

Paraphrased right: Because we do not live in a police state but each have the personal responsibility to maintain our own liberty and care for ourselves and others independently, no-one is allowed to prevent us from owning, possessing, and carrying on our person any means necessary to remain alive and free.

The Second Amendment is not about hunting or any kind of sport or collectors hobby.  It is the lifeblood of liberty. Exercise your right today and keep freedom alive for tomorrow.

Self Governance

Self Governance

A little over two centuries ago, the founding fathers of the Unites States of America championed an ideal that founded the greatest nation on Earth. They dared to declare themselves not only independent from a king in a distant land, but to insist that the people would govern for themselves. The total corruption of all three branches of our government, it’s recent abandonment of our constitution, and complete lack of integrity our nation’s highest court have called that ideal back into question for some.

People absolutely are capable of self governance... within the framework of a constitutional republic which is rule by law and by a people who adhere to basic moral standards. John Adams, second president of the United States, was asked what kind of constitution we had. His reply was that, “the Constitution for the United States was written for a moral and upright people and is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other”. That is what makes self governance work. As a constitutional republic of “moral and upright people”, the United States was the world's most successful self governing nation for a couple of centuries. We managed to remain free, save large portions of the rest of the world from tyranny, achieve the highest standard of living in the world, the highest levels of technology, and we were the world’s lone economic and military superpower.

Anyone upset about the use of past tense in that last paragraph needs to stop and take a candid look around you. We are not the moral nation we once were and we are paying the price for abandoning our founding principles. The lie of democracy has taken root in the immorality of hedonism. “If it feels good do it” has translated into “if you want it vote for it” no matter whether it is wrong or unconstitutional or violates the very founding principles of our nation. That is the difference between a functioning constitutional republic and the free-for-all lawlessness of a democracy.

Under the lawlessness that is the mob mentality of a democracy, nothing long will stand. This ultimately immoral system of rule by influenced popular whims has now led to an oligarchy here. The imposing authorities push the buttons of useful idiots to sway popular opinions and thus gain excuse to impose any tyranny that the latest “crisis” is manufactured to obtain.

Economically, this has resulted in limitless government spending asked for and or allowed by a public that has traded its self sufficient heritage for dependent expectation on a government that simply isn’t capable of meeting its needs. We have witnessed an exponential explosion of debt that is 16 trillion and climbing. That is more than the annual GDP of the entire United States. Additionally, the strain to comply with the unconstitutional reach of government regulations in private business has resulted in an economic climate that is openly hostile to new businesses which are the life blood of our economy.

On the moral front, this means nothing less than the loss of our most cherished freedoms. Chaplains in the military are being barred from public prayer in violation of the first amendment’s protection against any such prohibition. Groups of people must gain approval and even pay for permission to exercise their first amendment right to “peaceably assemble to petition their government for a redress of grievances” in the nation’s capitol. Gun owners are vilified by the attorney general and his boss the Marxist in chief who both swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend not just the second amendment, but the entire Constitution for the United States. The TSA and DHS, America’s version of the Nazi Gestapo and SS, violate people’s fourth amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure and that without a warrant on a daily basis. The latest National Defense Authorization act contains a provision that violates rights to legal counsel, trial by jury, and excessive bail. Now, the government that used to be “of the people” is employing military grade drones to spy on us from the sky.

Freedom has quietly died.

To be self governing you first have to have and adhere to moral and upright principles. Sadly, most people just don’t have those any more. It isn’t the practice of self governance that has failed. It is the abandonment of the principles of that system that has failed.

Go back and read the history of how kings, dictators, and tyrants have subjugated whole nations of people and killed millions. Maybe you weren’t taught that kind of vitally important history in school. The government has stripped so much of what we once were from our education system. Do it on your own. No one else can learn it for you. Read again about the United States own humble beginnings, our Declaration of Independence based on the firm reliance on the divine providence of our Creator God, the Constitution for the United States, and the Bill of Rights. Read the Bible. Grow a spine and stand for what is right. It is the only way self governance works.