2nd Amendment Suicide Pact
The late Italian author and journalist Arrianna Filacci once said the "nations aren't murdered, they commit suicide". It seems that our nation is on course to do just that. If it isn't the divisive race, class politics of the left, its the alarming frequency of mass murders by deranged lone gunmen. In July 20 year James Holmes walked into a movie theater heavily armed killing 12 and wounding 58. Just this week 22 year old Jacob Tyler Roberts shot 3 people in an Oregon mall, killing 2. However the today's carnage will surly go down as one of America's darkest days. A single gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown Connecticut and killed 26, 20 of them were children.
Each and every one of these incidents rehashes the old political debates about gun control. As a conservative I have always has difficulty with the loose interpretation on the 2nd amendment. The Constitution states 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. The operative words in that phrase are well regulated militia. The rationale behind the amendment is to provide protections against a tyrannical government, repelling invasion, and facilitating a natural right of self defense. Are we to believe that the founders intended for every citizen on every block to be armed? If the intention was to protect to people against government tyranny, who's going to protect us against the tyranny from our fellow citizens?
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