Great article "The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights"

[nynco]

The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights


http://www.thepolemicist.net/2013/01/the-rifle-on-wall-left-argument-for-gun.html?m=1


Has this article been linked on here at all? I apologize if it has been. My search turned up nothing. Regardless... this has to be one of the most well written articles on the subject of gun rights that I have read and its written by a liberal to liberals. I post it here so that others can use it to send to their anti-gun friends. I don't want to start a left right liberal conservative argument. I just think this is a great article for changing peoples minds.

[bchase75]

Great article...thanks for posting!

[Bailey Guns]

The very first sentence tells us much about the author's fundamental lack of understanding of the Constitution:

Let’s start with this: The citizen’s right to possess firearms is a fundamental political right.

After that, he continues on with the "political right" nonsense. Doesn't change my mind about liberals and the 2A at all. He obviously doesn't understand the concept of the Constitution limiting government's power and arguing that man has certain God-given rights as opposed to the granting of political rights.

How you can you take that seriously?

[nynco]

You did not read far enough in

[cstone]

An interesting read. Thank you for posting.

Sadly, many people are entrenched in whatever side they have chosen on this issue, and reading this or any article or participating in any well thought out discussion is not likely to sway many to either side.

This is trench warfare and it is being waged each and everyday in our government schools. If the progressive movement continues to control the ground in the government schools, the right to bear arms, along with many other fundamental rights outlined in the Constitution will be redefined in ways we can hardly imagine.

Continue the fights at the ballot box. Continue to raise your children to love and defend the rights they were born with. Encourage others in the shooting community. Do everything you can to take back the school boards from the teacher's unions.

Be safe.

[nynco]

CStone sadly that is true. But I can tell you honestly that I have changed peoples minds. You all may not like me but I go out into the left side trench all the time and battle them in terms that they understand and I do change minds. I have seen it with friends.

[Bailey Guns]

You did not read far enough in

Really?

No right is “god-given” or “natural” (although there are some that we, for good reason, treat in our socio-political discourse as if they were).

The Declaration of Independence seems to disagree with that:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[cstone]

CStone sadly that is true. But I can tell you honestly that I have changed peoples minds. You all may not like me but I go out into the left side trench all the time and battle them in terms that they understand and I do change minds. I have seen it with friends.

I hope you don't expect reciprocity

To me the RTKBA is a simple, fundamental, right instilled in all citizens by our Creator. It is one of many rights I believe i have at birth that just happens to be guaranteed by the Constitution. Progressives seem intent to replace my rights with government dependence. Their need seems to be driven by both their desire for control and a perverted sense of paternalism. I want neither and will accept neither.

[Bailey Guns]

And this self-professed liberal will continue to support liberal candidates, usually democrats, that will do everything within their power to diminish your rights and mine. Rationalize it however you want. This guy is not pro-gun.

[nynco]

Bailey... heres a dream for you. I dream of a time when there is no attack on gun rights from either side. How will that happen by working to make gun rights a non partisan issue. By keeping it as a partisan issue then we will always be at risk of losing our rights.