Sirota on Guns

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/22/sirota_guns/print.html

While the First Amendment doesn't ensure credibility or significance, it is supposed to guarantee freedom from fear -- a freedom that is now under siege. Citing the Second Amendment and the increasingly maniacal rhetoric of conservative media firebrands, a small handful of violence-threatening protesters aims to make the rest of us -- whether pro- or anti-health-reform -- afraid to speak out.

Let me begin by saying that David Sirota is an idiot. I can go on and make a passioned defense of the Second Amendment, but that would take all day and reinvent the wheel. So, is democracy and freedom threatened by an armed citizenry? That is the question.

The biggest gun is the one held by the government to our heads. The government exercises its right to bear arms. But this government was established by people who defied their government and exercised their right to bear arms. This right was reinforced by the Second Amendment, and its intent was all too clear. Those people could foresee a day when the present government might get out of hand, and the revolution would have to be fought all over again.

Sirota is right in seeing gun owners as a threat, but the threat is not to democracy. The threat is to tyranny. Sirota is concerned because he fears the loss of government power which is currently on the side of the leftards. Secession and revolution irks these people because they cannot abide a rowdy citizenry rising up against their socialist tyranny. Claiming to fear for his own safety is a bit of a stretch.

The problem with statists is they believe they have the right to take away other people's rights, and they always justify it for some greater good that doesn't actually exist. The reality is that they want to rule over other people. They can't leave other people alone and mind their own goddamn fucking business. But when we see a gun on a man's hip, suddenly, we get the message. This guy wants to be left alone. He wants to keep the money he earned, and he wants to live his life according to his own choices. He wants freedom. Fucktard busybodies like Sirota should get the message. But they don't.

Leftards are apologists for a criminal class of people known as politicians who essentially steal from the people and give the loot to their friends. The American people are tired of this, and you will see more of these guns as people get more and more pissed off. It behooves politicians to simply stop stealing and stop interfering in the freedom of the American people. The writers of the Second Amendment knew what they were doing. They were ensuring liberty.

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