Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2021 23:45:27 GMT
Guns Do Not Have Rights, People Do. Legitimate Self Defense is One of Them
In an age of sound bites and agenda driven news reports, the architects of a new cultural order have slipped one more phrase into the lexicon of the current cultural struggle, one which we adopt at our own peril.
That phrase is "Gun Rights."
Guns have no rights. People do. Rights are goods of human persons. Human Rights come not from civil government but from God.
Let me be clear. I have nothing against gun ownership. I do not a gun - yet.
I do believe gun ownership is protected by the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. I may choose to own one in the future - if the trends which have been unleashed in the Nation continue.
Trends which I fear threaten the Right to Life, ordered liberty and limited government.
However, I think many of my friends are falling prey to another media short hand verbal engineering tactic when they use the phrase "Gun Rights".
Guns have no rights, only people do.
Yes, one of them is the Right to Self Defense - and the Right to defend your neighbor. You may ask, "Is this simply a matter of semantics?" I insist it is not!
What we must protect is the Right to Self Defense. One of the means we may use to exercise this right is the ownership of guns.
However, the Right to Self Defense is vested in us - not in those objects we use, if and when necessary.
