“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?”
As President Obama surrounds himself with children to further his campaign to relieve Americans of their Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, some canny observers have recalled other political figures who have resorted to using children to sentimentalize their policies.
Jim Robbins, the brilliant lead editorialist at the Washington Times, reminds us of another, more salubrious response to governmental efforts to disarm the populace: Patrick Henry at the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention: “Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?”
The answer, alas: “Yes, we are.” But the Founders didn’t stand for it then. Perhaps we won’t stand for an imperial president’s effort to abrogate the Constitution by executive order. Perhaps.
The American people can’t be trusted with firearms, can’t be trusted to provide for their own retirement or medical care, can’t be trusted to feed themselves appropriately, are incompetent to raise their children or build their own self-esteem.
In fact they are incompetent to do anything except choose their political masters by regular elections. It’s a kind of a miracle when you think about it.
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“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?”
Woulda made a great campaign slogan: “Vote for humiliating and debasing degradation! Vote for Obama!”
Obama and the liberals, of course, are viscerally opposed to our defending our property from criminals and indifferent to whether we can defend our lives from them. But that’s not what really worries them. The first thing the KKK took from African-Americans after reconstruction was not their right to vote; it was their guns. And the Department of Homeland Security just bought a billion rounds of ammo.
I found a picture of Ronald Reagan posing with some children JUST LIKE HITLER.
The conclusion here is that Hitler was a politician, not that any politician whoposes with a child is a Hitler.