Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

The Second Amendment Is NOT For "Peaceful, Law-Abiding Citizens" Quite the contrary... IN READING A PIECE ARGUING AGAINST newly proposed regulation of so-called "ghost guns" the other day, I found myself rolling my eyes upon encountering the phrase "peaceful, law-abiding citizens" as the purportedly intended beneficiaries of the Second Amendment. (That's the Amendment to the US Constitution which secures right of every American to keep and bear arms.) This might have been my five-hundredth such encounter over the years. The unthinking deployment of this "peaceful, law-abiding citizen" phrase by even those who imagine themselves passionate supporters of the right to keep and bear arms is obnoxiously, if thoughtlessly, routine. Realizing that the subject of the Amendment is once again being put into political play by Democrat snowflakes and statists on several fronts right now-- in regard to "ghost guns" and so-called "assault weapons", for instance-- I think this is a good time to set the record straight (once again) on the true character of those on whose behalf it exists. I speak of decidedly UN-peaceful and law-DEFYING citizens, and without intending so much as a speck of literary art in that description. THE SECOND AMENDMENT, in a nutshell, secures the right of fed-up Americans to ignore any law prohibiting the violent overthrow of the existing domestic regime (or any other law implicated by their chosen course) and shoot their way through Washington or any state capitol in order to restore the republic. It secures the right of Americans to defend themselves with force in any way they see fit against "governance" which is being imposed on them against their will. (Optimally, such violence will only be deployed upon the failure of the People's efforts to defend themselves through the ballot-box. But there's no requirement to that effect.) That is, the Second Amendment is written to secure the rights of violent men and women who have lost respect for what may nominally be relevant "laws", but which are but the tyrant's will, as described by Thomas Jefferson in his observation: “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” Continued... https://losthorizons.com/N/150.htm#2