There is a classic battle raging in the United States, and it could change the trajectory of the country for years to come. It has to do with states rights vs federal government rights, and it was brought about by the raw political ambition of President Obama seeking to tilt the balance of power to the Democrat party, no matter the harm that it would do to the nation in general.
Until the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia, it was fairly certain which way the court would decide on the immigration issue. Obama had seized power over immigration law that was not his to take. Most conservatives and states rights advocates were confident that the issue would ultimately be resolved by the Supreme Court, with a decision that would affirm the authority of Congress to determine immigration policy. That outcome is now no longer a certainty.
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As the Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the Chicago, IL, Gun Ban, this man offered you another stellar example of a letter (written by a Marine), that places the proper perspective on what a gun means to a civilized society. Interesting take and one you don’t hear much.
Read this eloquent and profound letter and pay close attention to the last paragraph of the letter…
“Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat — it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.
People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…
And that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.”
By Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)
So, the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced. Unarmed & helpless is evil’s best friend
What control? Obama took total control 7 years ago!
This leftist kind of decision by SCOTUS could seriously undermine our constitution and cause an upheaval in this country, the likes of which could make the American Revolution pale in comparison. But maybe that’s the whole point. Either way our country could be destroyed!
If the courts keep subverting this country, there is going to be an uprising that will turn very nasty.
No
OK CONGRESS THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT TIME TO ARREST THIS TREASONOUS$#%&!@*TRAITOR
Are you Angry? Are you mad at the Liberals, their media, and the fools trying to run our Country? Does is p**s you off seeing our Country being sold to the highest bidder, (Arab countries) who donate to a woman who sold us out and don’t give a$#%&!@*about what you have to say or think? Does the fact that muslims want to install “their law” into our Country and force it down our throats with the help of the muslim fool in office and the rest of the democrats? You need to ask yourself, ‘how do I change this and keep if from happening’? Well you need to put a man in office who is not afraid to make changes that might just p**s off some people and countries! VOTE TRUMP
If the Republican party does not do what the voice of the people wants, then it’s time to make changes there too!! Or destroy the party completely! VOTE TRUMP!!
They cry for more “gun control” but the let in more terrorists everyday to kill Americans!! The demorats want to kill America and take our guns and rights and destroy the Constitution. So if your voting for the demorats then you have no right to complain about the terrorists killing Americans. Oh one more thing if you like the$#%&!@*in office then you have your head up his$#%&!@* and killary is shoving it up yours!!
Its pretty clear that Obama has had plans to turn us over to the UN, this guy is evil and democrap on top of it….if the democrats weren’t such a cancer they wouldn’t have to have special security just to protect those liars and thieves
Cause them assholes in congress let hom