tall_tree wrote:
Hey Chris,
I really enjoyed reading your article.
Do you have anything related to McDonald vs. Chicago and State sovereignty?
Do you believe that the McDonald case is approaching Chicago's handgun law from the right direction?
Do you think that incorporation will encumber Constitutional Carry states?
Those questions right there are what we need to overcome. The federal government, the state government, and the local counties have NO authority to disarm their citizenry. Every amendment is in fact incorporated and applies to all levels of government.
Our founding fathers observed inalienable rights that were endowed by our creator/mother nature. These inalienable rights are your right to life, liberty, and what ever property you've gathered from those two given the absence of fraud and coercion. Whether you're athiest (mother nature) or god (creator) natural law still applies because life was not given to us by any government, it was granted by a supreme entity. Therefore the right to defend one's self is a right to the individual alone.
We as a society have a golden rule which is enjoy your life, liberty, and property as long as it does not affect mine. We do have reasonable limitations on these such as punishment for yelling fire as a joke in a crowded building causing others harm, we may also have punishment for violent gun bearing offenders to disarm them for a period of time until they can prove they will not deprive another of their liberty.
The status quo has effectively lead us to believe that government somehow has a right to simply deny liberty when a person has never violated another's liberty with a self defense tool.
Our supreme court, legislatures, and executives believe that somehow they can bend and twist the meaning of the Constitution, which they have done. That is why the Founding Fathers, upon Declaring Independence, spoke of inalenable rights, and the right of the people to alter or abolish the government as they see fit.
The Constitution is a contract granted to those who would participate as civil servants in government to protect natural rights and nothing more. The supreme power in the land is WE THE PEOPLE. That is why the Constitution begins with We the People NOT he the president, they the congress, or they the supreme court.
Therefore going back to the main point. Remaining armed FORCES the government to use jurisprudence in conducing their affairs as said by the Father of the Constitution James Madison:
But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it.
Please whatever anyone does... do not give into evil, and proceed ever more boldly against it. (Mises Institute motto) We are experiencing a REVOLUTION OF IDEAs and we will win because ideas are bulletproof even in a police state.
Thanks!
Chris