By DR. LARRY MOSES
No one asked me but… Two of the most extreme liberals in America today, Piers Morgan and Michael Moore, have attacked Senator Harry Reid for not being liberal enough. One must wonder what planet these guys have been living on.
They are upset that Harry refused to bring the assault rifle ban for a vote onto the Senate floor. Senator Reid is, if nothing else, an astute politician with his ear to the ground. He realized he could not win a vote on the ban of assault rifles and was not willing to take a beating for the whole world to see. He also is aware that the issue might cost several Democrats their seats in the next election turning Senate control over to the Republicans.
Realizing he could not win the vote to ban assault rifles outright, Harry proposed that Senator Dianne Feinstein, from the Socialist Republic of California and a holder of a California conceal carry permit, attach an amendment to a bill that was sure to pass and slide the legislation in without a real vote. The danger in this strategy is that Senators who are hesitant to vote for an anti-gun bill outright might not vote for a bill with the amendment attached.
That is all background to the argument presented by Morgan and Moore.
It is hard to even deal with the idiocy of Michael Moore. Moore has indicated he sees no need to arm himself, for he, as many of the anti-gun celebrities, has hired armed bodyguards. For anyone above the moron level of intelligence, that should put an end to Mr. Moore’s arguments against an armed citizenry. He is the same Michael Moore that has made himself a multi-millionaire railing against selfish capitalistic corporations and successful business moguls. This is just one example of the hypocrisy that runs rampant among many of the anti-gun people.
The American people of 1775 would never have argued the validity of their right to arm themselves for protection, because that was a given. Congressmen and Senators carried guns on to the floor of the House and Senate. When President Andrew Jackson was confronted by an assassin, he took his own pistol out and pistol whipped the culprit and threw him down the Capitol steps. President Theodore Roosevelt carried a semiautomatic pistol for protection at all times.
Teddy has been quoted as saying, “I should have a chance of shooting the assassin before he could shoot me, if he were near me.”
When he visited Harvard University, the school’s president discovered Roosevelt was carrying, in violation of the Massachusetts law restricting concealed handguns.
Eleanor Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wife, was armed wherever she went. Even after the death of her husband, she was armed to protect herself from those who hated her because of her civil rights activities. In 1958, when the Ku Klux Klan threatened her, the F.B.I. warned her not to travel to a civil rights workshop in Tennessee. The 74-year-old woman placed her revolver on the front seat of her car and went anyway.
Mr. Morgan is a British citizen who was brought to America as a talking head to replace Larry King. You remember Larry King, a bag of wrinkles held together by suspenders who spouted ignorance every evening. The name of his show on CNN was Larry King Live. The live was added to assure the viewer they were not watching a mummy.
Morgan has brought with him the typical arrogance of British royalty. He has made his show one great campaign to disarm America. His never dying question is, “Why does any civilian need a gun and most especially why do they need an assault rifle?”
Mr. Morgan makes the same mistake that many Americans do. He believes the Second Amendment deals with the rights of Americans to own a gun for self-defense. The founding fathers never would have question the right of a man to protect himself. You can tell stories all day about people who faced down bad guys and won, but that is not why we have the Second Amendment.
The answer to Mr. Morgan’s question as to why any civilian should have access to a military style weapon is plainly spelled out in the Second Amendment. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Under the Second Amendment not only should every able body American have access to military style weapons, they should have training in them. Every household in America should be armed and trained to take up those arms at a moment’s notice. Every able body man, woman, and child makes up the militia and should stand ready to defend America against tyranny both foreign and domestic. The problem in America today is not that we are over-armed; it is that we are under-armed and under-trained to use those arms.
Piers Morgan has never gotten over the fact that in the American Revolution a bunch of farmers, who supplied their own weapons and sacrificed their own fortunes, took on the most powerful army of the day and defeated it. That army belonged to Morgan’s native country and he can’t get over the embarrassment of it.
Every republic in the world has eventually turned to tyranny and when that time comes in America, the militia must stand ready to oppose that move. That is the essences of the Second Amendment and that is why every American household should be prepared to defend this nation.
Paul Hagar, a prominent Libertarian, who joined the Republican Party in an unsuccessful run for the Senate in 2000, explains it better than I. “One of the arguments that had been made against gun control was that an armed citizenry was the final bulwark against tyranny. My response had been that untrained, lightly-armed non-soldiers couldn’t prevail against a modern army. I had concluded that the qualitative difference in firepower was such that all of the previous rules of guerilla war no longer applied. Both Vietnam and Afghanistan demonstrated that wasn’t true. Repelling an armed invasion is not something that American citizens are likely to face, but the possibility of a despotic government coming to power is not wholly unthinkable.”
Thought of the week…To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
– Richard Henry Lee
American Statesman 1788
