by Alec Kohut
The United States Constitution,
Article 4, Section 2 Clause 3 reads:
No Person held to Service or Labour in one
State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of
any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but
shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may
be due.
The Founding Fathers believed that
escaped slaves should be returned to their owners. And the Founding Fathers
were wrong. When it came to one of the most basic moral ideas in history of
good vs. evil. The Founders got it dead wrong.
I don’t care what the Founding
Fathers believed about slavery, or women’s rights. And I don’t care about what
they said about guns.
One can argue that the Founders
lived in a different time, and should not be judged by today’s standards on the
issues such as slavery. To that point I agree 100%, the Founders lived in a
different time. A time when slavery was accepted, women were second class
citizens.
It is irrelevant to us now what the
Founders believed about slavery and women. We don’t care that many of the
Founders warned against standing armies as the greatest threat to liberty. Yet
for some reason, we are supposed to care, and act as if the Founders were
somehow infallible in there beliefs of the right to keep and bear arms.
At that time a gun was fired by
tearing open with your teeth a powder and ball cartridge, then “priming the
pan” by pouring some powder in the pan near the flint, then pouring the ball
and remaining powder down the barrel, then removing the ramrod, then packing
down the ball and powder, then replacing the ramrod, then lifting the rifle,
aiming and firing. A well-trained solider could get off three rounds per
minute.
Unlike opposition to slavery, and
the desire of women to vote, the Founders could have never imagined the death
and destruction caused by the easy availability of guns. Nor could they have
imagined the advances in gun technology that have enabled a single person to
kill dozens in a span of seconds.
So don’t quote the Founding Fathers
to me and tell me what they believed. The Founders created a remarkable
government that has served us pretty well for more than 200 years. Not because
we hold on to the outdated beliefs and realities of the late 1700’s, but
because of the concept of self-government and the ability to address today’s
problems, with today’s knowledge, and solutions for today’s world.
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YES thank you! Someone that understands. Those gun rights people that hold onto that old document... so crazy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment, and while I can appreciate your sarcasm, Your argument fails. Your implication that I think it is "crazy" to people hold on to that "old document," is hogwash. The 2nd Amendment calls not only for the right to keep and bear arms, but that is consistent with a "well-regulated" militia. Which is exactly why the Supreme Court has never ruled the 2nd Amendment to mean any and all weapons one may wish to possess. Fully automatic machine guns and pistols with silencers are very tightly regulated, and have been for years, does that mean, to you, that somehow your right to keep and bear arms has been infringed?
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