In writing about the latest outrages in Zimbabwe, Winds of Change discusses an interesting epiphany, which can be boiled down to this quote:
The Right to Bear Arms is the only reliable way to prevent genocide in the modern world.
Genocide is only one form of Tyranny of course, and as gunowners have said for a long time, “an armed population cannot be tyrannized.” This is exactly what Thomas Jefferson is talking about in the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Throwing off the shackles of Tyranny is, by its nature, a difficult and bloody affair, and one that the People can successfully undertake only if they have Arms, as Tyrants are not apt to simply step aside when the People bring forth persuasive Grievances. This is why the Founding Fathers recognized the right of the People — what we today call a human right — to bear Arms.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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