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The 2nd Amendment: A Plan for Arming Citizens--By Guest Columnist Michael Turnbull

3/24/2013

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The Constitution of the United States had been in place for only a short time before the Framers saw the need for some fine tuning, and so they created the Bill of Rights.

As valid today as when written, the 2nd Amendment reads:

“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.”

This “well regulated militia” referred not to career soldiers, but to all U.S. citizens. How do we know this?  Examine the wording.  Making their intentions clear, the Founders twice affirmed, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.  Note two things:  First, for soldiers, it is an obligation and requirement to bear arms, not a “right”—so the statement applied to society as a whole.  Second, “of the people” certainly didn’t mean “of the military alone.”

The concept is simple enough.  An armed society provided a ready supply of volunteers for a “well regulated militia,” while making that society capable of protecting itself from Government hostility.

Having just seceded from England, the Constitution’s Framers saw unarmed citizens as easy prey for tyrannical rulers.  They were right.  Throughout history, dictators have disarmed their citizens—“for their own good,” of course—in order to impose their will.  Two of the more recent examples were Hitler and Stalin. But when tyrants like Hitler turned their sights on America, they saw an armed citizenry, not helpless peasants, so it was little wonder the U.S. mainland suffered no attacks by Japan or Germany in WWII.  Isoroku Yamamoto stated, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

Not surprisingly, countries passing strict gun-control laws have seen their crime and homicide rates rocket sky high, as defenseless targets tend to be, well, targeted.  But it is unnecessary to look outside our borders to witness the failures of attempting gun-control.  Liberal cities such as New York City, Washington D.C. and Chicago have both the strictest gun laws and the highest per capita homicide rates in the nation. “Gun Free Zones” have not and never will be deterrents for criminals hell-bent on destruction.  Shockingly—at least to misguided big city mayors—the bad guys have no trouble procuring firepower regardless of what gun laws are in place.

Ensuring an immediate solution to this problem is the armed citizen, so violent criminals agree, gun control makes their job much easier! These persons are cowards and always prefer “soft target” where they encounter no resistance.

Depriving Law-Abiding citizens the right to protect themselves is DENIAL of our Constitutional rights, and endangers everyone in our society. NRA statistics show that persons who legally carry concealed firearms are involved in .01% of crimes committed involving a gun. The concealed carry community is held to a higher standard, and performs admirably! Volumes of success stories exist where American Patriots exercising their right to “keep and bear” firearms are the number one line of defense in critical situations. Unfortunately, such success isn’t allowed in “Gun Free Zones”—witness very avoidable killing sprees like the Virginia Tech school shooting and the Movie Massacre in Aurora, Co.  While these tragedies could not have been avoided altogether, their outcomes could certainly have been altered and the carnage reduced—had just one legally armed citizen been there!

An Armed Society is a Polite Society. 

Violent crime runs rampant in Australia and Great Britain—where firearm ownership is illegal—and Canada has finally abandoned ineffective gun legislation after wasting billions of dollars with minimal results. This is some of the same legislation that anti-gunners in America want to put in place now!

The Constitution’s Framers were geniuses with vision, and they knew the heart of man. Though they never saw the old west or contemporary Chicago, our Founding Fathers could easily have predicted Chicago to be the more dangerous of the two, as today’s Windy City inhabitants would trade anything for the relative safety of old Dodge City.

Once more, look at the 2nd 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.”

Well armed citizens who can protect themselves or supply a militia with ready recruits?  Sounds like safety to me.  Sounds like freedom.  Sounds like the Constitution’s Framers knew what they were doing.

Maybe we should listen.

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Arguing With a Calculator

3/17/2013

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Over the past year, I’ve had times when I was angry with people on the Right.  A few examples are:
 
·    Chris Christie’s support for Obama’s hurricane relief efforts nauseated me (though as a Christian, I was
happy to see Christie embrace some form of worship).  Later, Christie’s dissing of the NRA upset me as well.

 ·    I was furious when Todd Akin stayed in the Missouri race.  Ditto for Richard Mourdock’s fiasco.

 ·     I fumed when John McCain belittled Rand Paul’s filibuster.
 
Have other Republicans frustrated me?  Of course. My beloved Tea Party?  You bet.  My Christian Right brethren?  Absolutely.  And while my views often skew Libertarian, that group is hardly innocent.
 
Ah, anger.  It consumes us all.  In such moments, it’s tempting to shout, “Whoever disagrees with me, get out!”  I sometimes feel everything would go fine if our movement was purified—as in, totally agreeing with me.  It’s
true. In my anger, I grab my  rhetorical gun and join the circular firing squad.  For a small donation, I’m even allowed to call out, “Ready!” and “Aim!” It’s thrilling.
 
During these times, I think I’m arguing against “wrong” Conservatives—those ingrates who deviate from my brilliance.  I say, “I’ll win on my own!  I’ll show them all!”  Thankfully, God neutralizes my arrogance with a handy device called, “Wife.”  I recommend everyone get one, though the straight women out there will have to settle for the bargain basement equivalent, “Husband.”
 
(Ladies, virtually every model is on sale at your nearest Health Club.  Some are even pinned beneath heavy bars, so you don’t have to pursue. Just wrap a tag on their toe—it’s a real time saver)
 
Where was I?  Oh yes—my argument against all those “wrong” Conservatives.
 
The sobering reality is that my greatest argument isn’t against other Conservatives; it’s against a calculator.  You see, were I ever proclaimed to be God (no, not just by me, as I often do when Wife isn’t around), then I might use my power to remove those dreaded wrong people from Conservatism.  Casting them out, I’d leave too few Conservatives to win elections.  Oh sure, Conservatism would be “pure” by my standards, but unless the Democratic Party would agree to a similar cleansing (yeah, right), my remaining faction would never match their numbers.  Never.
 
What does the calculator say?  It says, “There are this many Democrats, and they are very united.  So, any splintering of Conservatism—no matter how noble it feels—only ensures Democrat victories.
 
Don’t like it?  Hey don’t tell me; tell the calculator.  Here are its heartless facts:
 
·       The Moderates and Christian Right feud, but neither has the numbers to win alone.
 
·       The Tea Party and “Establishment” feud, but neither can win alone.
 
·       The Libertarians and Defense Hawks feud, but neither can win alone.
 
We can whine about it.  We can cry about it.  Shaking our fists at the calculator, we can vow to “never again vote for the lesser evil”—but this only guarantees governance by the greater evil.  Such protests carry the same impact as protesting against Daylight Savings Time.  The calculator just doesn’t care.
 
So what’s the alternative?  Usually, when debating the calculator, our circular firing squad members point at each other, yelling, “The calculator is forcing me to be like them!”  It’s hilarious.  Presented with simple math regarding the need for unity, we all claim to be facing exaggerated demands:  
 
“Oh sure!  You want us to water down our message and abandon our principles!”
“No!  You want us all to become Christians!”
“No!  You want us all to stop being Christians!”
“No!  You want us to legalize all drugs and prostitutes while bringing back 60’s music!”
“No!  You…you…you don’t love Ron Paul!!!”
 
So much rage—all aimed at a poor calculator.
 
It comes to this, folks:  We must unify, but we can’t unify around total agreement.  So what can unite us?  A common vision.  We must stop demonizing each other and discover what we have in common.
 
Want to know how?  Simple: Just ask all Conservatives the question, “Why aren’t you a Democrat?”
 
The answers will be plentiful, but in the end, they’ll all revolve around not wanting to be controlled by a central government.  We want to keep our money, our beliefs, our liberties, and even our right to whine endlessly within a circular firing squad.  To all of us, the Democrats represent control.
 
And what is the opposite of government control?  Individual liberty—or put more simply, choice.  Yes, my big word.  While Democrats love controlling the choices of Americans, Conservatives avoid this unless necessary.  And while we disagree on when control is necessary, we all share the goal of choice.
 
Not happy with the truth?  Then yell at the calculator.  Talk to the hand.  Cower before Wife.  Scream all you want, but understand that we can no longer win separately.  We either reach out to each other and listen, or condemn America to an oblivion borne of our own bitterness.
 
Sorry my friends, but that’s the honest math.
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The Battle Against Locusts

3/11/2013

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Have you noticed how many people are fleeing places like Detroit and California?  Some evacuees are  Conservatives, who bolt from failed experiments where success is punished.  But many are Liberals.  And with reliably Democrat votes, these Leftists swarm like locusts into neighboring states.
 
Conservatives often wonder, “If they run from failure, can’t they reject it?  Don’t they see the wreckage left by their policies?  Why don’t they learn?”
 
Here’s the answer:  Locusts don’t learn.
 
Think about it.  If your core goal is to take from producers, then why learn?   If you love higher costs on job creators, why sympathize when they move away?  Doesn’t blaming them feel better?  If voting yourself other people’s money excites you, why change?
 
Gaining nothing by learning, locusts just devour what others produce.  Literal locusts do this by swarming fields, while human locusts swarm the ballot box.  They don’t care about right and wrong.  They care about more and less—as in, “They have more; I have less.  I want more of what they have, and I’ll support any politician who takes for me and tells me I’m entitled.”
 
Understand, not all locusts are lower income.  Look at green energy giants, labor unions, Hollywood moguls, and other Leftist cronies. Raking in billions from subsidies, they also gobble up Obamacare waivers, targeted tax breaks—anything they can get.  Locusts don’t care how much they already have; they just want more of
what you have. To get it, they don’t need to learn. They just need to win.
 
I repeat:  To get it, they don’t need to learn.  They just need to win.
 
And this gives them great focus.  I’m amazed when Republicans fail to see how we must outnumber the locusts to defeat them on Election Day.  While we attack each other over every difference, the Left unites.  They just want more votes; they don’t care how.  Will they turn tax-funded education into leftist recruiting? Gladly!  Program the kiddies!  Will they turn the entertainment industry into a one-sided blowhorn?  Sure!  Voter fraud? You bet!  Illegal Immigration?  Let ‘em vote!  My goodness, some even advocate breeding for political power!
 
Folks, locusts have no ethics.  Seriously, do we understand this?  Do we see what we’re fighting?  Whatever
brain power we devote toward measuring ethical behavior, locusts devote toward justifying unethical behavior.  Hey, the ends justify the means, right?  So while our brains are internal calculators, theirs are internal lawyers.  As a former Leftist, I promise this is the case.
 
Can we defeat the locusts? Absolutely, but we must understand how they create new locusts.  It’s really simple:  They convince people to embrace the worst part of themselves.  This is key, since most of us prefer not to be takers.  So how does the Left lure Americans into darkness? Just like in the movies, baby: Bitterness—Hate—Revenge. Just tap into the bad feelings we grip tightest—the ones we feel we deserve—and the transformation comes.  Think about those times when you’ve embraced such feelings:  Was your mind still an ethics calculator, or did it become an internal lawyer instead?  Be honest.  Can you see how the Left seduces
Americans toward their worst inclinations?
 
Then, they just show how amassing numbers brings revenge—sorry, “fairness”—and the swarm is born.  
  
This is why the Left props up endless enemies, from rich people to Christians to SUV’s to oil companies to the military to white men to gun owners to…who knows what’s next? Once rallied, the swarm feeds on cities and states, always seeking fresh prey.  Will they have regrets?  Puh-leeze! Regret hurts, and their inner lawyers have long since hardened them against the pain of conscience.

A few easy rules apply when battling locusts:

1.     Most locusts can be turned.  Not the radicals, since they’re benefiting politically—but the rest can be reached.  Remember, these aren’t actual locusts; they’re people, with hopes, dreams, and a desire to be good. 
The first step is always removing barriers they see between us and them (I explain how in my “Tearing Down the Wall”workshops), then showing them the benefits of unleashing liberty.  Trust me; many find these ideas to be fresh and compelling.

2.     As a movement, locusts are absolutely focused on winning, since that is their route to taking.  We must be equally focused on winning, since that is our only route to  freedom.  Division on our side is fatal against such a foe (I’ll discuss this further in my next article).

3.     Our debating and advertising must aim directly at the primary arguments of locusts.  By showing how Liberals call people to do bad things, we embarrass the Left.  No, we’re not preaching; just offering straight talk. Ultimately, we can’t convert or defeat locusts without showing why it’s wrong to be one—and by avoiding this, we empower the Left in countless ways.  Besides, targeting these arguments really undercuts our opponents.  It works.
 
The locusts have overrun Colorado, and most of America—but this is reversible. It really is!  Just don’t expect Americans to “wake up” when the locusts overreach unless we counter their overreach.  Pointing at California and Detroit isn’t enough (though please do). We must point at the worst in us that the Left calls forth.  Only then can we champion the best in us—the single mom working long hours for her kids, the unemployed guy wanting a paycheck instead of welfare,  any person who rejects racist overtures in favor of character and merit, the  wealthy job creator who stays here while competing against foreign competitors who enjoy cheaper costs—these are the good people we can be!
 
And more Americans will be these people when the locust’s call is exposed. Understand the locusts, reveal them, replace them with truth, and who  knows?  Maybe, rather than us fearing them coming from California and Detroit, they can fear us going there.  You know, I think I’d like that.

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