To rectify confusion over the 2nd amendment · 8:26pm Feb 19th, 2013
Normally, I would only post Pony-related things here. However, recent developments and a constant stream of deliberate misinformation have convinced me that, as I have endeavored to ceaselessly self-educate myself on all topics in existance, I am in a position to clarify the facts and offer an affront to the delusions fostered by certain elements of the government who seek to centralize all authority under themselves, under the auspices of it being 'for the greater good' (see Cass Sunstein's 2 awful books "The Republic" and "It's For Your Own Good" to fully comprehend their level of presumptive elitism and arrogance).
Seeing as how many people still do not understand the clear and obvious purpose to the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution (hint, it has nothing to do with killing a deer), I have found a concise and unambiguous explanation from none other than the framer himself:
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes….Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;…"
-Thomas Jefferson
And for those leftists who are still grumbling, may I point out that the so-called 'Arab Spring' your side cheered so greatly was enacted by armed citizens who threw off the yoke of a dictator (now, one can argue that they then simply replaced them with new dictators). Had those citizens been unarmed, they would have quickly been crushed. Such is the case in North Korea, where the unarmed people are strangled by a fanatical regime more interested in posturing and threatening than taking care of the helpless, starving, enslaved citizens. Such was also the case in Nazi Germany, the fledgling Soviet Union, and Maoist China: disarm the people, then have your way with them. All dictators throughout history have been cut from the same cloth, and the three greatest warning signs common to them all are quite easy to identify:
1. They seek to disarm the public, who will oppose them once their true nature is revealed.
2. They begin to seize the basic rights of the people, claiming it is for their own good.
3. They believe/claim that government will always know better than the people (forgetting that all governments are composed of flawed 'people').
Remember always this cautionary note: No government ever grants itself powers it does not intend to abuse.
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I hope this image depicts my feelings in the mature manner you've come to expect from me.
Finally, a fellow creative mind that doesn't have his head stuck in the clouds. No tyrant was overthrown by an unarmed populous. What I really find amusing (and ironic) is that the ad below your blog post was for asking people to vote for stricter gun control laws.
847048 It's especially hard to overthrow anything when does not have arms! I suppose one could use feet... sort of...
If only Australia had your constitution.
847316 No arms? Then I guess all you can do is kick ass.