Second Amendment meant to be our last defense

Submitted by Jim Guelde
Posted 4/27/21

Dear Editor:

In reply to “Reader disappointed in coverage of gun promotion,” April 22, penned by Martin Garhart.

With the increasing number of liberals escaping to Wyoming from …

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Second Amendment meant to be our last defense

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Dear Editor:

In reply to “Reader disappointed in coverage of gun promotion,” April 22, penned by Martin Garhart.

With the increasing number of liberals escaping to Wyoming from California, New York, Oregon, Washington and other ruined Democrat hives, we will be seeing more calls for “common sense” gun control ... more cries that nobody needs a 30-round magazine to bag a deer.

Let’s cut to the chase here.

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, target shooting or other sporting purposes. The Second Amendment is our last defense against government gone bad.

Judge Alex Kozinski said it best in Silveria v. Lockyer: “The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”

The Second Amendment does not guarantee we can defeat a tyrannical government, it simply gives us a fighting chance.

People misunderstand the Bill of Rights. It was not designed to guarantee anything, support anything. It was supposed to be used as a gauge of tyranny. Those 10 items suggested to a people that a proper government, a trustworthy government, would refrain from encroaching on those areas of an individual’s life.

To the extent that a government cannot restrain itself from imposing on those areas is the degree to which it is a tyrannical government. Re-read the Bill of Rights and see how free you are today.

Patriots like Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey and Frank Church would be appalled at what their beloved Democrat Party has become. If the attacks on traditional American beliefs and culture continue, I would not expect the republic to survive much longer ... the ties that bind us together are dangerously frayed.

With kindest regards,

Jim Guelde

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