The Usual Infringement of our Rights

The Usual Infringement of our Rights

I wrote a weighted letter last week to my local newspaper unfortunately because I felt inclined to do so about a topical subject I certainly would never have thought I would feel the necessity to defend, the right to keep and bear arms. The man claimed that our forefathers would not only have made modern firearm laws more authoritarian by making sales policy more strict but totally outlawing the sales or possession of firearms altogether, also making a slanderous statement stating the founders would have supported D.C.’s unconstitutional ban of handheld firearms. Well after first pointing out the author’s initial stupidity and sophomoric reading of our founding document I felt it necessary to make the point that D.C.’s ban on handheld firearms brought up crime especially violent crime substantially by all accounts. It seems the very same individuals that propose the absolute destruction of prohibition against illicit substances (which I am for) are the very same that are pressing for the Draconian abolition of our second amendment rights. The very same reasons apply to both subjects drugs and firearms are very jeopardous when used improperly but as we have seen multiple times the illegalization of a product floods black markets with the illegal product causing drug dealers or gun dealers to slay opposing providers of the product causing crime rates to skyrocket. The only people that would voluntarily give their guns to the government initiating the ban would be law-abiding citizens therefore the criminals keep their weapons of choice while the good citizens go unarmed and become victims of the inevitable crime wave.
This inalienable right should not only be protected but practiced without our second amendment right, all our other expectations from our government go; needless to say there would be no incentive for the government to allow us those other rights liberals tend to hold so dear. Without this right we fail to become citizens to the higher power we become nothing more the mindlessly obeying serfs. I make the argument that the only thing making our government hesitant to strip more our civil liberties away is the fact there are an estimated three hundred million guns in America. I guess I am backed into the corner and make the cliché quote “People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of its people.”
On the evening of October 4th, 2007 the elderly couple Ed and Elaine Brown were captured by the Federal Government and imprisoned because of their failure to pay the unconstitutional federal income tax. Ed and Elaine, both in their sixties were held in their property plentiful abode for months with nothing but vitaminless food and firearms. The elderly couples were rattling the cages of the growing power of the American empire because of their disobedience and unwavering patriotism, to protest something their forefathers would have been against. This was a sad but joyful occasion to me, on one hand an elderly couple were captured in their own home and incarcerated (and by many accounts tortured) for not paying a tax. This issue was brought to us and many millions more because of their bravery to not submit to a totalitarian unconstitutional Federal Income tax and all at the assistance of the firearms in their possession.

You’re Contrarian Author,
Charles Brown