More Gun Control

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee, 1788

The United States seems to be engaged in multiple wars of late, ranging from the real thing in Iraq and Afghanistan to the so called “wars” on poverty, drugs, crime and what-have-you. Now we have the slop-over from Mexico’s drug war seriously affecting us as well. Granted that us “country hicks” in the northern tier haven’t seen much of that fuss yet, we may rest assured that before long the fun and games will soon start showing up here as well. In fact, some rural folks in the south-west are already involved, and some are dieing as a result. With the possible exception of Governor Rick Perry of Texas, no US public official will admit that the United States has a major threat developing on our southern border. Mexico’s drug war is developing into a serious threat to both the government of Mexico, and to the lives of American citizens. Mexico, with more than 28,000 murders so far, is being terrorized by the drug cartels, and the Mexican government is slipping into oblivion. Now, instead of illegals coming across our borders in search of jobs (and becoming a steady stream of recruits for the cartels), many refugees are now fleeing Mexico and Central America just to stay alive. However, if you thought that only some areas of Mexico were under the control of the cartels, an examination of the map shows that much of Mexico has been taken over by the cartels, and they are moving into the United States as well, with Florida, Alabama, Texas, Arizona, and California rapidly becoming part of the combat zone! And, despite the claims and wistful thinking of the liberal press, I don’t have a lot of hope for our law enforcement agencies to handle the situation either, considered that they’re seriously outnumbered, and heavily outgunned. The US armed forces could handle the problem quite easily, except for the fact that they’re rather busy defending our country… in the mid-east.

It’s a common Liberal strategy to create a crisis, and then present a utopian “emergency” solution. So, on the current subject, a perennial war is the ultimate crisis situation, and our government is handing us a loose-loose situation for America with the DREAM act. With our left wing government tied in knots, and the current regime in the White House bending over backwards appeasing all and sundry beyond our borders, it appears that we’re about to get into another fight, with Mexico once again! About the only thing we can hope for is that some General will finally mobilize the USMC for a live fire exercise… on our southern border! Baring that, I suspect it’s about time to rethink the hate mongering about militia organizations.

But now, things are getting even worse for Americans, if that’s possible!

“If you look at the values and the historical record, you will see that the Founding Fathers never intended guns to go unregulated”, says Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The author of the dissenting decision in the 2008 "D.C. v. Heller" case, Breyer said that James Madison was more concerned that the Constitution may not be ratified than he was about granting individuals the right to bear arms. Therefore Madison included the Second Amendment to appease the states. Since the Founding Fathers did not foresee how time would change individual behavior, government can impose regulations on guns, Breyer contends. "The difficult job in open cases where there is no clear answer is to take those values in this document, which all Americans hold, which do not change, and to apply them to a world that is ever changing," Breyer said.

He suggested that those values and intentions mean that the Second Amendment allows for restrictions on the individual, including an all-out ban on handguns. "We're acting as judges. If we're going to decide everything on the basis of history -- what is the scope of the right to keep and bear arms? Machine guns? Torpedoes? Handguns?" he asked. This from a Justice who probably doesn’t even know we're a Republic, and not a democracy! The founders went to painstaking trouble to detail the framework of the Constitution. They specifically ignored firearms limitations because they wanted “The People” to never lose the ability to oppose a tyrannical government. The founders well knew that they could not foresee what future weapons might become, and if they had wanted to place limits on guns, they would have limited us to flintlock muskets.

Breyer represents the interests of freedom hating socialist control freaks, and he, along with Sotomayor, Kagan, Stevens, Ginsberg, Souter – are all experts at “interpreting” our rights out of existence. His trying to reinterpret what he "thinks" Madison meant is like me trying to interpret a message from the Taliban! Now more than ever in our moralless society, thieves and liberals believe they can help themselves to whatever we own, so we need to be able to protect ourselves. If that day comes, I for one won’t have to wait for the "law" of Justice Breyer to save me, Judge Colt and I can take care of ourselves just fine.

The people should have the ability to purchase arms at least equal to those available to the US military. Sadly, the ammunition for the really nifty toys is so darn expensive...