Happy Birthday, United States of America, and in a very real sense, Happy Birthday to liberty itself. After 235 years, that liberty is wearing thin in places ("Patriot" Act, federal agencies entirely devoted to unconstitutional missions, etc.), but not only is it not dead, it is not beyond recovery, either.
What would put it beyond recovery? The "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV).
There can be no independence when citizens must depend on armed agents of the government to come to rescue them--something the government is under no obligation to do--when predatory evil threatens.
There can be no independence when citizens must depend on the government being willing to "license" their Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.
And finally, there can be no independence when citizens must depend on the government to honor the Constitutional limits on its power, without we the people having the means to enforce those limits.
The Declaration of Independence was treason (one of CSGV's favorite words) against the most powerful government on Earth. National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea chronicles some examples of what we are now denied, as a result of that treason. A tiny sampling:
- It's a crime for a woman, at home with her two-year-old daughter, to show intruders a kitchen knife through the window, so they know that she and her daughter will not go down without a fight.
- Glass beer mugs are to be banned in pubs, because they can be used as weapons.
- A farmer calls the police to report a mob who had attacked and threatened to kill her, and they come and confiscate her legally owned shotguns.
Those who long for a government monopoly on force would make a mockery of our independence from a government that demands its subjects submit to that kind of abject servitude . . . and that seems to be fine with them, as CSGV's Communications Director Ladd Everitt makes clear.
Happy Independence Day.
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