Is The Second Amendment About Self Defense And Hunting Or Amelioration of Tyranny?

The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

Self defense against criminals or self defense against — criminals?  Kurt Hofmann asks the question:

But as a practical matter, does that really make much difference? When you defend yourself against an assailant who happens to be a common criminal, after all, you’re defending your rights from violation, no less than if your attacker–and aspiring rights violator–draws a government paycheck, carries a tax revenue-supplied firearm, and is acting on government orders. Likewise, in resisting a tyrannical government, you are defending yourself from that government–and the hired muscle of said government, from whom you are defending yourself, is no less criminal than the common street thug or rapist.

To claim a difference, other than one of scale, between a thug who rapes a woman, and a tyrant who rapes a nation, is to elevate the tyrant to something greater than the thug-writ-large he is.

Great point.  Consider for a moment gun control in Nazi Germany and what it did to the Jews.  It matters little (or not at all) whether the home invader is uniformed or not.  We must all ponder these difficult things.

Remember when you do ponder that we’re not the first to do so.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer decided – albeit a little late to the game – that he had to speak and act.  “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”  I claim that God has very specific requirements of us when we act.

So as to the question, the answer is not “either-or.”  It is “both-and.”

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2 thoughts on “Is The Second Amendment About Self Defense And Hunting Or Amelioration of Tyranny?

  1. We are dealing with SOVIET SOCIALIST RED TERROR. It was in place 20 years BEFORE the National Socialists, during the time of the NSDAP and then hung around for another 45 years after the NSDAP was dust, killing TENS OF MILLIONS of christians and other people. Vote with your wallet and buy more ammo. Liberty1775 MGK/GDW!

  2. “Consider for a moment gun control in Nazi Germany and what it did to the Jews.”

    Considering that did virtually NOTHING to the jews that wasn’t done to the rest of the non-Germans, there’s nothing to consider. Especially since the jews were NOT being ‘slaughtered because of it.

    Consider for a moment gun control in Bolshevik Russia and what it did to the white Russian Christians.

    6 million dead jews = BLATANT LIE!

    66 million dead white Russian Christians = ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

    The author is obviously SADLY in need of an education on this subject.

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