Founding Fathers Knew What it Was All About

                                       The Second Amendment is There for a Reason
The founding fathers knew by experience what was to be done. They they lived it.

No guns. That is what the lefts is aiming at. How can we as a nation think that we are so impervious to the concept of an overly zealous government. The potential of a government to be one that is so intent on implementing the leaders ideological beliefs, that they become oppressive. You think that is not possible. Well here is a wake up call for you all. It is possible. Rather than point out the historical oppression of the modern tyrannical governments of Europe and other place in the world. Including genocide of the Jews and others. I would instead point to our own experiences. When it comes to tyrannical and or repressive government

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You have heard this phrase many times when studying American history. " No taxation without representation".  A cry emitted in the days of early America colonists. A cry of discontentment and an objection to what was considered unfair taxation. Whether it was or not. That is only for the historians to speculate and for us to ponder or accept. The fact is that it was considered oppressive and unfair by those bearing the burden of the tax. As well as the billeting the Kings troops and numerous other grievances.  A very intrusive and sometimes dangerous practice. As the Kings men were not what you would call gentlemen. The Kings forces harbored the worst scoundrels of society. In addition, mercenaries were also used. Hardly a group of men to have in your house while your daughter and wife were at home. In other words there was no right of privacy or a say as how taxes were levied. Or how much and what the expenditures were benefiting or whom. To the colonist who had been governing themselves since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Or the colony at Jamestown.  Had legislatures and legislators who they elected and were accountable to the constituents of their respective colonies.

Therefore the idea of a King treating them as anything other than that which they expected as subjects of the Crown, and as Englishmen, was repugnant. This along with having to pay what they considered confiscatory taxation. Was an outrage. You can imagine the feeling of betrayal by their own King and country. This was the lead up to the American Revolution.

So oppression by your own government is a possibility and a viable one at that. The availability of fire arms gave them the ability to resist those practices by their own King. That they found to be unfair and untenable. Now imagine if you will that the means to defend themselves in face of these actions were not available. Do you think that you would be singing the Star Spangled Banner or God Save the Queen? For that reason and that reason alone, the second amendment exists. Not  only to protect home and hearth from the invasion of other entities. Also to be able to resist the possible tyranny of your own government.

Our country is a young one even now When compared to the history of the rest of the world.  There are those, myself included, that are wary of forces in the government. That feel that there is an element in place that have an ideology that is abhorrent and dangerous to our freedoms. This is not because they are bad men or women. They are just driven by an ideology that is diametrically opposed to a free market, capitalist society. Or, to the traditional values that we hold dear. Allowing us to prosper and stay unified.  In an effort to implement that ideology on a grand scale is uppermost in their intellectual credo and cannot be dismissed. This causes them to vigorously attempt to do things the population finds wreck less and unfair.  In doing so they become oppressors by various means.

Bureaucracies headed by appointees that have not been elected by the people. Take on a life of their own. They become the masters and instigators of planning and directing policies that are not conducive to our norms or aspirations. Their  regulations by fiat, complicate and interfere with our pursuit of happiness. Which includes successful trade. One law leads to another. Regulations lead to more regulations. This is inevitable, because the very nature of bureaucracy exists for that purpose.

Some of us believe that this is happening right before our very eyes. Over staying of public officials in public office is the first sign of this occurring. Freedom of the press turning into a controlled propriety of the one group or another is also disturbing. In doing so they carry the water of the side they see eye to eye with. Special privileges being abused in order to mystify and then codify their own agenda. As well as those they support.  Or visa versa. This is a serious matter in that it misinforms. Taking away the option of voting intelligently by the masses when they choose to franchise their rights and duties. These are the situations that eventually call for resistance.

Implementing their ideas is a quest that did not take root in their minds overnight. How many times have we have encountered  minds of radical thought. That are neither reasonable or logical. These individuals can harm us and in real sense are dangerous to us. The ends justify the means is a philosophy that is well known to radical and tyrannical forms of government. It has been practiced in our modern 20th and 21st century world. It is a real threat that can only at last resort be quelled by an armed populace. It can happen and it does. Tyranny does not appear in an iota of time. It is a situation that evolves over time. We as a free people must be ready for it. When you take away our means to resist you enslave us.

The founding fathers knew by experience what was up when the put the second amendment into place. They knew this not by picking the idea off an apple tree. No, they knew by living under the rule of a tyrant. We live in a dangerous world.  The need to defend yourself and your rights must be protected and not infringed upon. Not by emotional cries of those who think government will protect them. It is the government that you sometimes need protection from.