Self Defense is a Human Right

General Discussion
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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.

Probably one of the most misunderstood and controversial amendments of the US Constitution, the Second Amendment has been under attack since its very inception by those who would limit its rights because of their own personal biases, and/or that of institutional expediency under the guise of Public Safety!

One of the most glaring affronts to the rights of the Second Amendment is that it has no limitations on it, NONE! Even the Founding Fathers writings on this issue plainly spelled out that it was not the government’s duty, right, or responsibility, to limit any portion of the US Constitution, especially the First and Second Amendments!

Yet we have local, state, and federal authorities and legislators doing everything in their power to limit the citizens’ ability to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment and until recently the Supreme Court has abrogated its responsibility in enforcing the exact tenants of the US Constitution, especially the Second Amendment!

Probably the most glaring clause and which causes much consternation among those in political power who would seek to keep their power by any means necessary no matter how illegal or fraudulent, refuse to recognize the very first clause in the constitution being. “A well regulated militia”, which is not the National Guard or any Armed Force of the US government! A citizens’ militia is a private-armed force put in place to maintain the second part of that clause, which is, “being necessary to the security of a FREE State”! Which means living in a “state of freedom” not within any political entity or within a political boundary, it literally means being in a “state of freedom”, but many people misunderstand this, and they need to be admonished and corrected whenever that erroneous mindset rears its ugly head!

The third part of the Second Amendment is the one which has now been verified by the Supreme Court in the recent Bruen decision, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms”! Notice that there are two very important words in this clause, that of “keep” which means to have hold or possess and “bear”, which means to carry on your person at all times, anywhere, any place, no restrictions! Yet the present Communist Progressive Liberal Criminals (aka Democrats) would have us believe that that is not true, but the Founders plainly spell this out again in all their writings! In fact, after the US Constitution was written, John Adams was asked if we could have a canon? His response was, “of course you can” and what many people refuse to acknowledge, is that many private citizens and entities had their own armed ships with cannons to protect themselves from piracy! Nowadays, we must be fully armed to protect ourselves from the piracy of the same criminals and many government agencies acting like criminals, (See ATF, IRS, EPA, FBI, etc.) Also take note that the word Arms is capitalized, this is to infer that this means any type of arms whether it be firearms a knife a handgun or any sort of weapon that can be used for either offense or protection from a criminal or tyrannical force, there is no distinction what type of arms are to be allowed! The current complete nonsense about “weapons of war” is just that complete and utter nonsense as it was “weapons of war” that brought this country to its independence, just because those weapons have changed over the years does not abrogate the ability of a citizen to have any weapon they choose to maintain a free state or a state of freedom from criminality and government tyranny!

The fourth part of the Second Amendment states clearly and plainly, “shall not be infringed”! The founders made special pains to make sure that the US Constitution was written in plain simple language that anyone could understand without any lawyerly or scholarly interpretation to get a plain and simple meaning yet the Communist Progressive Liberal Criminals currently trying to overthrow parts of the US Constitution including particularly the Second Amendment, try to infer and inject meanings and principles which have no bearing on the plain and simple language!

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yeah, I pretty much have no argument against what you say.

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The main problems that I see is for one are the people that have to “interpret the meaning” of the 2nd to attempt to tell you what you can and cannot have or do. But I never see any reference to the Federalist Papers that were published to actually explain what the intent for the Bill of Rights and the Amendments were, from what I understand. I could be wrong, for l have been wanting to read through a copy that hasn’t been edited, modified, condensed, or altered from original context.

WARNING! INNER GEEKDOM EMERGING! WARNING!

This may get me shunned, but back in the day I used to play Magic the Gathering, a trading card game. A lot. Most of the cards had a description on them of how that partcular card affected gameplay. Such as damage, regeneration, cause/effect, target, remove from game, abilities, and so forth. And much more that can’t really be explained in a post. But one of the main rules (and this is the important part) is that you followed that text EXACTLY as it was written. There was no need for interpretation, and there was no room for deviation. There was no debate because all the information was right there. So because of this game, I utilize that one simple rule quite often. And I do believe it applies here. If all the required information is present (which it is) for the cause/effect to resolve (which it does) in its simplest form, there is no valid argument otherwise, no far-fetched attempt to twist the meaning, or no lawyer-driven interpretation. It is all there in black and white, plain as day, as our forefathers intended.

Or I am completely wrong, should shut up, and be ignored. But I don’t believe so.

And remember, the 2nd Amendment does not grant any right. It reinforces rights you already possess. It only restricts the government. Any form of government.

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As far as I’m concerned it isn’t a right being granted to the people that can be recinded whenever the government likes. It’s an order to the government that the rights of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED… EVER.

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Amen :us_outlying_islands:
@Spider1

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Thank you for your supportive reply!
I think that was what I was alluding to John, was the Federalist Papers, as an explanation of what the Constitution means and for which it stands, although I didn’t call them out because too many people use that as a stick to beat over peoples heads, but I think that’s what I was saying, the Constitution is an admonishment against the government to stay the fµ¢k out of peoples way and out of their lives, in a nice way of saying~ :face_with_monocle:

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DITTO Jammo! :clap:t4: :+1:t3::smiling_face:

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DITTO Spider! :clap:t4: :+1:t3::smiling_face:

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Thank you for your supportive reply! :clap:t4: :+1:t3::smiling_face:

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I agree with what you said. I also believe all of the info is already present to back it up. There really shouldn’t be any opportunity for anybody to be able to change the meaning or interpret the intent. It is an absolute. Also, since there can be no law that supercedes a law above it, and the Constitution is the highest law of the land, any law passed that contradicts it is null and void. It is so simple to understand that people cannot comprehend it. Or choose to ignore it because it doesn’t fit their agenda. So if these people attempt to force you to accept their beliefs, how do you get them to understand the facts? Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean you can dismiss it. The facts speak for themselves.

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DITTO!
That is why these Communist Progressive Liberal Criminals and others, consistently go to the Supreme Court to try to twist the Constitution into their own interpretation of what suits that agenda you mention, which is slavery, drugs, and piracy the age-old business model of the Crown that we fought the Revolution to overthrow, which is now is in the guise of the Federal Reserve, the WEF, the IMF and all these other globalist agenda criminals!
Please visit Royce White’s “Please Call Me Crazy” YouTube channel and/or Professor Pen on YT for more on the subject!

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I open carry about 90% of the time. One would think that’d be enough to deter most folks, but it isn’t, at least not in my state, you can’t throw a rock without it glancing off thirty-six tweekers before falling to the ground. One would also think that Kansas of all places would be a safe-ish place compared to other, more populated locations, but it isn’t. Topeka, for example, carries a 1:18 risk of being the victim of violent crime, with a population less than 130,000. I’ve got a brother in law, in his late fifties that’s a dope fiend POS squatting in squalor in his mom’s basement. He pays no rent, has no job, he’s stolen her blind, and once even grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the ground… she’s 76 years old, 5’0", and about 80lbs if she’s lucky. He gets butthurt every time he sees me, because he’s effed up his own life so bad he can’t legally own a firearm. He got so pissy on mother’s day, he tried to pick a fight with me (while I’m open carrying) and threatened to take my firearm and use it against me. That didn’t work. Then he called the cops on me as if I’d been the aggressor, or had done something wrong. The reason I’m saying all this is because I too believe in self-defense as an absolute. However I’d always envisioned potential aggressors against my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to be complete strangers, who are happened upon in unexpected places at unexpected times. I never thought for a moment it may be necessary to defend against someone I know, or have familial ties to. Imagine the pariah I’d been had I fully acted within my rights that day… Mother’s Day. The rest of the family are constantly coddling this fool, excusing his actions, even when he’s hurt children, women, and his own elderly mother, and even so, in their eyes, I’d have been “in the wrong”.

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I hate to say this, but I and many others who carry all the time, think that open carry is a foolish mistake and that all you’re doing is waving your genitals around like you’re some kind of big bad boy when some low life criminal is going to run up behind you and pop you in the back of the head and take your weapon, that’s all you’re encouraging with that silliness!
You can take that anywhere you want, but that’s a fact sir, and maybe you need to change your attitude before that very scenario happens to you, and mark my words it will!
If the criminals will do that to a uniformed police officer, which happened right down the road from me here in Harris County Texas, you don’t think they’ll do it to you too, you better damn well believe they will!
I know my reply may be a little strong worded here, but I’m hoping that you and others who want to pursue this open carry nonsense will get the point! :face_with_monocle:

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I understand the risk. Open carry to me is like an unspoken contract with the public. I feel a great swell of sorrow for the family of any fool stupid enough to try. I’ve never been a hiding kind of guy. No reason to start hiding things now. --Edit-- I don’t view any of my constitutionally protected rights and the excercise of them (including constitutional open carry in my state) as silliness or nonsense.

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I’ll go even further and state that it is a natural right.

Humans are not the only species on earth that defend themselves from predators. Flora and fauna of many types use many forms of self defense, including spikes, venoms, and poisons that cause death or permanent damage to their predators.

It is a natural right granted to all things by God (or nature). If a cougar could mandate a porcupine not have quills (or limit its use thereof), it would.

To me, this is no different than government regulations on arms.

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very well said.

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Hornets, Scorpions, etc. - all typically “Open Carry”, and have no qualms about letting others know it…

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