It is said that the 2nd Amendment follows hard upon the 1st
so as to serve as its bodyguard — providing the added incentive of
coercive force by a wary citizenry to guarantee that those initial
cherished liberties, expounded by our Founders, did not go the way of
the 10th Amendment. The 2nd Amendment, interpreted as the right to bear
arms by a free people, has not escaped that yawning chasm that has
opened up between the political Right and Left, and the rationale behind
this stratification falls along the same familiar tensions of
individual vs. collective. The nature of men, having proved insufficient
in wisdom for the eradication of evil, must then paradoxically utilize
the equalization of deadly force to not only suppress the jaundiced
glint in our neighbor’s eye but the tyranny that arises when men esteem
the chimera of ordered equality over liberty.
Of all laws that are deemed to have their origin in nature, the Law of Self-Preservation is indeed the most fundamental. Each person, ceteris paribus, has been deemed to have an a priori right to guard the sanctity and value of their life through any means necessary, assuming their attitude is one of general peace with men and not of the character of brigands. The friction arises with the inherent inequality of humanity, evidenced in their disparate size, strength, and stature. Now, while defensively brandishing a knife or cudgel poses a strong inducement in mounting one’s stout defense of life or property, the use of a firearm has irrevocably changed the dynamic relationship between both predator and victim. Since criminals, from the dullest to the most sophisticated, are deeply concerned with maintaining both their own freedom and their “skin,” more than a passing thoughtful consideration is generally weighed within a criminal’s nefarious equation when deciding whom he shall next fall upon.
Cont Reading: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/sam_colt_and_the_law_of_self-preservation.html
Of all laws that are deemed to have their origin in nature, the Law of Self-Preservation is indeed the most fundamental. Each person, ceteris paribus, has been deemed to have an a priori right to guard the sanctity and value of their life through any means necessary, assuming their attitude is one of general peace with men and not of the character of brigands. The friction arises with the inherent inequality of humanity, evidenced in their disparate size, strength, and stature. Now, while defensively brandishing a knife or cudgel poses a strong inducement in mounting one’s stout defense of life or property, the use of a firearm has irrevocably changed the dynamic relationship between both predator and victim. Since criminals, from the dullest to the most sophisticated, are deeply concerned with maintaining both their own freedom and their “skin,” more than a passing thoughtful consideration is generally weighed within a criminal’s nefarious equation when deciding whom he shall next fall upon.
Cont Reading: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/sam_colt_and_the_law_of_self-preservation.html
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