The Transplanted Texan

How many times do we have to revisit this? READ the Second 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.”

Who’s carrying this momentous decision?
The Washington Post (With their liberal spin, of course…)
Fox News (I guess the Saudi Prince doesn’t mind this story.)
The New York Times (OH, this is good. They think the right to keep and bear arms was granted to freed slaves so they could defend themselves. Their statistical data on deaths and injuries, and on the saved lives, is pure fiction.)
CBS News (Everybody wins here!)
The San Francisco Chronicle (This is interesting. They think that abortion is a Constitutional right. Which Amendment is that???)
The Boston Globe (They think that the Supreme Court just extended the reach of the Constitutional right to bear arms. Extended???)

Dissenting Justice Stevens opined that the historical reasons for the existence of the 2nd Amendment do not apply to today’s standards:
“The reasons that motivated the framers to protect the ability of militiamen to keep muskets available for military use when our nation was in its infancy, or that motivated the Reconstruction Congress to extend full citizenship to freed men in the wake of the Civil War, have only a limited bearing on the question that confronts the homeowner in a crime-infested metropolis today.”

He goes on further to state that “…firearms have a fundamentally ambivalent relationship to liberty.”

I think he has taken the same drugs that Moron McCartney has. We retain what LITTLE liberties we have left because of firearms. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t exist. We would have been invaded and destroyed or, we’d resemble something like Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The only thing stopping our government from total communist control is our weapons. They know it is our duty and our right as citizens to rise up and abolish any form of government that becomes destructive:

Declaration of Independence…
“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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security…”

Folks, we are almost there.