Our Next Debate: Would America Be Safer Without the Second Amendment? [More]
There’s nothing to debate.
Remember what Mr. Paine said [link downloads Word doc]:
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves.
That balance of power must exist between government and governed or tyranny will prevail.
The Second Amendment does not authorize predatory abuse of arms any more than the First authorizes libel, fraud, and perjury. Since the right to arms is a preexisting one, amending the Constitution would not eliminate, the right, just the government’s recognition of it, and try changing that and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet in terms of body counts.
Dershowitz is an impotent old fool, what Aaron Zelman called a “bagel brained Jew,” serving here in the role of ideological kapo.
