The Second Amendment Doesn’t Shrink Beneath The Threat Of F-15s And Nuclear Weapons
By: Ian Haworth
Our President is a real jerk. That he thinks he can intimidate citizens who support the original intent of the 2nd amendment shows he knows nothing of patriotic Americans and our culture of individual rights, personal freedoms, and liberty.
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In his latest splurge of nonsensical gun control rhetoric, Joe Biden raised eyebrows on Wednesday when he repeated his claim that the Second Amendment always limited both who could own a weapon and the kinds of weapons available and then appeared to threaten the gun owners by alluding to the U.S. military’s overwhelming firepower.
“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” Biden said . “You couldn’t buy a cannon. [Those who] say the blood of the, the blood of patriots, you know, and all this stuff about how we’re going to have to move against the government.”
“Well, the tree of liberty is not [watered with] the blood of patriots, what’s happened is that there never been, if you want, if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons,” Biden continued. “The point is that there’s always been the ability to limit, rationally limit, the type of weapon that can be owned, and who can own it.”
While critics were quick to point out that Biden’s narrative was inconsistent with the overwrought claims by Democrats that the U.S. Capitol building riot was an unprecedented assault on democracy, there is something of far deeper concern which must be acknowledged: Joe Biden does not understand the Second Amendment.
The president misses the multiple examples in history when lesser military forces have emerged victorious. One obvious example is the American War of Independence, spurring the Babylon Bee to post a satirical op-ed by King George III titled, “You’ll Never Beat A Tyrannical Government With Just Guns.”
However, there is a subtle but crucial point which many miss when they discuss the Second Amendment, and one which has links to the fundamental difference between the Left and Right when it comes to equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome.
Biden, and the Left more broadly, judge the validity of ownership of weapons as a protection from tyranny in a binary manner. The U.S. military is more powerful in terms of weaponry than the American populace, and (assuming the use of F-15s and nuclear weapons against private citizens is somehow moral) any military action on a national scale would likely result in a victory for the federal government, and defeat for those who oppose them. Therefore, in the mind of the Left, why would you need such weapons when you would lose anyway?
The answer is that, like those who took up arms in the face of the world’s greatest military might and fought — win or lose — for American independence, the right to self-defense in the face of tyranny makes no qualms about the risks that accompany such action.
Those who stood up to tyranny under the rule of the British crown did not do so because victory was guaranteed. Indeed, victory was extraordinarily unlikely, with numerous pivotal events providing a razor-thin path to the final objective.
Like those patriots, those who advocate for our right to stand up against tyranny do so with a valid disregard for the consequences of standing up against immorality. We believe that the Second Amendment is a written expression of our inalienable right to self-defense — of life, property, and liberty. This inalienable right doesn’t fade into insignificance under the shadow of those looking to take our lives, property, or liberty just because they have a bigger stick than us.
For people like Joe Biden, the calculus of “equality of outcome” is applied to all, including our fundamental God-given rights.
That is why they will never understand those who fought and died to enshrine our right to keep and bear arms. That is why they will never understand us.
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Uh . . . nope. I keep reading it over and over and it doesn't cover that kind of ground.
Good God. Never underestimate this man's ability to say the most stupid thing possible. This is the wrong approach for a president.
He needs to be saying things like "It would never come to that. I want to listen to what people have to say. I respect their rights and our legal system. As long as I am president, it won't be necessary to take up arms against the federal government. I work for the people."
Instead, he talks like a schoolyard bully, flexing his superior strength. He sounds like a dictator - a military strongman we might see in the Third World.
Apparently he hasn't been paying attention to the wars we and others have fought and lost during his years in the Senate and as Vice President. Even as we are evacuating people who helped us in Afghanistan so they aren't killed after we leave much like Vietnam. We didn't win and they didn't have F-15's or Nukes and they couldn't interrupt our supply chains in any way. How do you think the government would fare against a majority supported revolution on US soil when their own soldiers have mixed feelings and the enemy (the guys who mow the lawns and clean the pools of the Senators and Congressmen) have been watching gorilla warfare training movies like Red Dawn and Fight Club all their lives. Biden is an Idiot ! I guess what he's really saying is he would drop nukes on US soil to maintain his grip on power.
That’s a good point. I wonder if Joe thinks we should have nuked Afghanistan.
Oh wait, that would be a terrible suggestion, right? And yet, it’s ok for him to talk of nuking Americans on American soil. Smmfh!
The second amendment does nothing to prevent a tyrannical government. If things get so far out of control that an autocrat is able to assume power then the moment when the second amendment MIGHT have been useful ha long since passed.
The second amendment will be one of the last rights to be curbed, and really those who have a huge boner for it will be the ones being used to strip everyone else of all the other (far more important) rights.