GUNS/BARMS

[Matey]

The anti-gunners plod on.....

Now they are the 'real' patriots speaking for the founders and rewriting history, yet again:

Second Amendment is collective
By RICHARD N. JOHNSON
Special to the Courier

A letter from the grave:

Why are you drawing artificial lines in the miry quicksand of Constitutional irrationality with your erstwhile defense of our carefully worded Second Amendment?

Can you not plainly read our clearly worded and concise erudition that specifically states, “ ... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed?” We hear reports that some modern Americans are opposed to their neighbors constructing nuclear bombs in the privacy of their own garages.

Other rumors claim that some are opposed to the wealthy and elite of modern American society arming their private Lear Jets with heat-seeking missiles and nuclear weapons. And unbelievable as it may sound, we have even heard that some modern citizens are plotting to prevent future American corporations and individuals of wealth and esteem from arming privately-owned satellites with space-based laser and other as yet to be invented weaponry of necessary defense.

Have you lost all sense of patriotism and common decency?

How can we expect communistic liberal Democrats to listen when from one side of the contradicting claptrap, you claim that regulating the sale of guns at circus tents (talk about your animal rights) is against our Second Amendment while from the other side, you go right on defending the Republican Party’s ongoing support of similar restrictions regarding the advanced weaponry noted above?

Is not your Constitutional right to own all manner of machine-gun and bazooka-type arms, which were also not invented when we conceived our amendment, no different than your same right to arm private aircraft with nuclear bombs or at the very least, large conventional bombs? And what about your Constitutional right to manufacture anthrax and arm yourselves with toxic nerve gas?

Where is the sagacity of common sense and fair play? Since there are currently no publicly held nuclear weaponry corporations (at least as far as we know), we suspect that your sympathy in reality lies with the profits of gun manufacturers and the enhancement of your own bulging coffers at the expense of logical and sane weapons regulation. Is this not what your contradicting and uncompromising agenda is really all about?

Is not your whole argument based on drawing your own lines for biased purposes of your own self-interest without regard to what our Second Amendment actually says? Do you not think there may have been a good reason, however foreign it may seem to you Constitutional Neanderthals of the 21st Century, why we qualified our amendment with the rationality of a “well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state …”?

Have you even bothered to notice that the entire constitutional document we spent so much time and consideration painstakingly crafting was duly prefaced with “ ... in order to insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, provide for the general welfare ...”?

Do you not think we might consider it rather naïve to suppose that the modern-day American population can somehow be assured of domestic tranquility while criminals are allowed to possess and control an unlimited personal arsenal without any necessary background checks?

In closing, we have taken sad notice of late that our carefully defined First Amendment is being constantly and consistently violated by a very great many modern American county and city ordinances and in every American publicly supported classroom.

We unanimously would like to know why you who are so riled up over the Second Amendment are not out in the streets screaming about such rampant abuse of our First Amendment? And what about those God-awful taxes you currently allow without raising an eyebrow, even supporting the lying Republican hypocrites who raised them?

Do you not know that we revolted over a 3 percent taxation issue? Talk about your one-trick ponies ... Would it not be better for We The People of The United States if John Wayne, that big ape from the monkey planet movies, and the rest of your self-serving and contradicting butts would simply ride off into your superficial polluted sunset and never return to burden the minds and otherwise endanger the general welfare of our hard-working and decent common folk?

Signed,
John Hancock

On behalf of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

(Richard N. Johnson is a local Prescott human and civil rights activist and author; e-mail him at [e-mail])

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Maybe a few civil letters to the editor and a few civil emails wouldn't hurt. We're on a roll so let's keep public opinion positive of American gun ownership.

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