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The Bill of Rights: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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Arguably, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution should have been made first in the Bill of Rights because without the right to keep and bear arms, such rights as freedom of speech and freedom of the press would be treated as nothing more than meaningless “privileges” bestowed and taken away by government officials at will. The Second Amendment is the American people’s ultimate insurance policy against tyranny because government officials know that guns in the hands of the people provide the only practical means by which to resist tyranny. They know that a disarmed society almost always becomes an obedient society in the face of omnipotent, tyrannical government. Gun-control advocates suggest that gun control will result in a safer, more secure environment for people. Their arguments are false, fallacious, and dangerous. Let’s examine why. One underlying assumption of gun-control laws is that people will obey them. The problem with that assumption, however, is that while it might be valid with ...

Hornberger’s Blog, June 2004

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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 The neoconservative commentators who believe that patriotism means blind support of government, especially during times of war, are stunned, shocked, and paralyzed over the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Hamdi, Guantanamo, and Padilla cases because they now can’t decide which branch of government to support — the executive branch’s claim to dictatorial powers or the judicial branch’s striking down of such powers as inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution. Tuesday, June 29, 2004 The Supreme Court’s rulings yesterday against President Bush and the Pentagon in the Guantanamo Bay and Yaser Hamdi cases should bring a sense of relief to the American people, especially given that the Congress has played such a pathetic and cowardly role in the defense of civil liberties during the most massive presidential and military assault on the rights and freedoms of the American people since at least the time of the Civil War. (The Court deferred ruling on the merits in the Jose ...

Hornberger’s Blog, May 2004

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Monday, May 31, 2004 Today — Memorial Day — is a good time to begin reflecting on the future direction of our country, especially given the failure of the most recent foreign war waged by the federal government. I say failure because there is no possibility that the occupation of Iraq will succeed in bringing freedom, democracy, or even the long-term appointment of a U.S. puppet regime in that country. The Iraqi people will never trust U.S. officials, not only because it was U.S. officials who imposed and maintained the embargo for more than a decade that callously killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children but also because the sex abuse, rape, torture, and murder scandal has destroyed any hope of winning the trust of the Iraqi people, especially the religious ones. The troops might well be kept in Iraq for the indefinite future but they will be killing and dying for nothing more than preserving “national pride,” whatever ...