{"id":54465,"date":"2016-03-11T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=54465"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T12:36:53","slug":"gun-ban-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54473\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54473\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of about 4,500 firearms that were handed over as part of Australia\u2019s buyback. (Photo: David Gray\/Reuters)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pile of about 4,500 firearms that were handed over as part of Australia\u2019s buyback. (<em>Photo: David Gray\/Reuters<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/03\/07\/gun-control-what-works-what-doesnt-and-what-remains-open-for-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\">Washington Post<\/a>, stopping gun violence in the United States is simple: all it takes is a good old-fashioned gun ban.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/epirev.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/38\/1\/140.full\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\">recent study<\/a> by Columbia University&#8217;s Julian Santaella-Tenorio, the Post article explains that while single pieces of gun control legislation have proven almost entirely ineffective in the United States, \u201ccomprehensive gun legislation packages\u201d with an \u201carray of different policy changes\u201d have proven effective in countries like Australia, South Africa, and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/australia-a-nation-of-defenseless-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\">paying attention<\/a> knows that \u201ccomprehensive gun legislation package\u201d is just a fancy way of saying \u201cgun confiscation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is true that national gun confiscation might reduce the amount of gun-related violence in the United States. Here\u2019s the problem\u2014the same logic could be applied to cars, power tools, cement trucks, pharmaceuticals, knives, and silverware, to name just a few. All of these objects account for deaths in the U.S., deaths we could limit with \u201ccomprehensive dangerous object legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This idea sounds ridiculous because we rely on cars, power tools, etc., to live our lives on a day-to-day basis. Guns fill an equally important need, but in our urban, sheltered, government-dependent society, we often lose sight of it.<\/p>\n<p>The men who wrote the Second Amendment were clear as to its purpose. They had recently won a war against a tyrannical British government, and they weren\u2019t about to leave the people defenseless if another tyranny arose.<\/p>\n<p>James Madison said <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed46.asp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\">Federalist No. 46<\/a>, \u201c\u2026the advantage of being armed [combined with the existence of] subordinate governments [i.e., the states] forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Second Amendment exists so that American citizens can defend themselves against the \u201centerprises\u201d of a too-ambitious federal government. Even if that government possesses tanks and drones, an armed citizenry serves as an effective deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Amendment also protects against a too-ambitious foreign government. It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/2013\/11\/04\/american-hunters-%E2%80%93-world%E2%80%99s-largest-army\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\">well-known fact<\/a> that the number of licensed hunters from only a fraction of the states exceeds that of any army from any country in the world. <em>Red Dawn<\/em> may be fantastical, but the idea holds true\u2014United States citizens could organize one hell of a resistance movement.<\/p>\n<p>But just try mentioning either of these purposes to a gun-banner, and you\u2019ll get the usual series of insults: \u201cparanoid,\u201d \u201ccrazy,\u201d \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d Let\u2019s be clear\u2014despite the current administration\u2019s executive overreach, we haven&#8217;t yet reached a point where Obama has instituted martial law. \u00a0By the same token, red China hasn&#8217;t yet descended on U.S. soil to collect the massive debt we owe them.<\/p>\n<p>While either of those scenarios may never come to pass, sooner or later something will go down. \u00a0Oh yes, it&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/prepping-101-zika-population-control-planetary-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> just a matter of time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/prepping-101-zika-population-control-planetary-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-ban-second-amendment\" title=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PREPPING 101: ZIKA, POPULATION CONTROL &amp; PLANETARY COLLAPSE \u2013 BUY YOUR BED TENTS NOW<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>See, the Founders weren\u2019t na\u00efve. \u00a0They knew this. \u00a0They understood human nature, and they understood that nations don\u2019t last forever\u2014eventually, they destabilize by tyranny from within or they are attacked from without. They realized that precautions had to be taken so that future generations could defend their liberty, so they included the individual right to keep and bear arms. That right is just as important today as it was in 1787.<\/p>\n<p>Gun-related injury and death are a horrible reality, and we as gun owners are responsible for doing everything we can to keep our firearms from criminals and children. But guns\u2014just like cars and pharmaceuticals\u2014serve an important function in our society. \u00a0They preserve our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>If we give up or allow lawmakers to take our Second Amendment rights because we believe the United States is immune to foreign or domestic tyranny, we\u2019re either na\u00efve or arrogant. And if history is any indication, na\u00efve, arrogant countries don\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, stopping gun violence in the United States is simple: all it takes is a good old-fashioned gun ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":54473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to the Washington Post, stopping gun violence in the United States is simple: all it takes is a good old-fashioned gun ban.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-11T19:10:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-19T12:36:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jordan Michaels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jordan Michaels\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jordan Michaels\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/#\/schema\/person\/a21614cb8c2dd3512bbbaa26c54521ad\"},\"headline\":\"Why Gun Banning Would Be the End of Liberty\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-11T19:10:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-19T12:36:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/\"},\"wordCount\":687,\"commentCount\":29,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-ban-second-amendment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gun-Confiscation.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buzz\",\"R2KBA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"2nd Amendment - R2KBA\",\"Authors\",\"Current Events\",\"S.H. 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