THE BIG LIE: You Have No Rights
by Alan Korwin
http://www.gunlaws.com/politicallycorrect.htm Major media outlets are
starting to give more and more space to what I call The Big Lie. They are
coming right out and saying that the Constitution doesn’t protect your
right to arms, as it always has.

If the Second Amendment doesn’t mean you can bear arms, well, how exactly
did everyone get armed? It doesn’t even make sense.

The idea that the Bill of Rights doesn’t allow individual people to keep
and bear arms is so logically bankrupt it’s hard to imagine why anyone
would use it in an argument.

If the Second Amendment only authorizes the National Guard, then how come
there are gun stores? How come there have always been gun stores? How come
the Guard didn’t exist until 1903? Why don’t you have to enlist before
buying firearms?

Arguing that the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights doesn’t guarantee
your individual rights denies history and the world we observe around us.
It is a dangerous lie that threatens our liberty.

The scariest part is that people hear The Big Lie and believe. You must
ignore the evidence of your own eyes to adopt that position — but blind
fear of guns is so intense for some people it prevents rational thought.
Such virulent gun haters should sign up to never own or touch guns in their
lives, as they would have us do. Would they chuck freedom for illusionary
safety? It’s a free country. Let them.

Gun haters should take the Citizen’s Federal Gun-Free Pledge:

“As an American citizen, of my own free will, I do hereby declare myself
Gun-Free, never to keep or bear arms in any manner, for the rest of my
natural life, under penalty of arrest and felony conviction.” Sign here.

If media moguls and misguided dilettantes succeed in deceiving the public
on the Second Amendment, how will they explain state Constitutions with
even stronger language? In my home state of Arizona, “The right of the
individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself or the state shall
not be impaired” (but raising private armies is forbidden). That was
written in 1912. Why would it say that if the Second Amendment, you know,
never meant what it always used to mean?

And there’s the rub.

Except for the last few decades, keeping a firearm was universally
regarded as a normal, wholesome, safety-minded thing to do. It was related
to liberty, freedom, honor, strength, security, justice and yes, even fun.

Mouseketeers pranced twirling six-shooters, kids wore cowboy holsters, it
threatened nobody. Gun rights were well understood and exercised for 200
years. Even today, in tens of millions of homes across America, guns are
for safety. Guns stop crimes. Guns save lives. Guns are OK.
Those who seek to disarm decent citizens are promoting a radical new
notion that gun ownership is solely related to crime and terror, and is so
dangerous, you dope, stop now before hurting yourself. Only the rulers
should be armed. You have no such rights, never did.

Is that Orwellian or what? The media paints gun ownership as radical and
extremist, but clearly, it is this new anti-rights agenda that is radical
and extreme, because the gun owners are the ones with 200 years of
tradition, history and law on their side.

Noted scholar Stephen Halbrook, Ph.D., did the legwork and concluded:

“In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects
the “collective” right of states to maintain militias, while it does not
protect the right of “the people” to keep and bear arms. If anyone
entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and
Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most
closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing
surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis. The
phrase “the people” meant the same thing in the Second Amendment as it did
in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments — that is, each and every
free person.”

Not surprising, considering the evidence: