The Best Argument For The Second Amendment

[Guest oldfella]

None Better - By Marko Kloos

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"Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act."

Pete

[mcurrier]

Amen!

[Kelemvor]

^^+1000

[Guest Ghostrider]

Applause - bravo - well done.

[Chumney]

If only our elected officials would learn this lesson instead of listening to the political correct leftist. Like Nancy said just say no. No to the so called experts on civilized behavior. We the people demand a level playing field with the thugs who would force everyone to yield to their demands through force not reason. Home defence and personal defence lies with the individual. Support for the armed citizen should be supported by all of our branches of government. Individual freedoms can only be if we decide to protect our rights, even if it means te respond to a threat to our life and those we love through the use of our weapons as a last resort.

[frontier737]

Very true!

[Guest redbarron06]

Awesome!!

[Chucktshoes]

Marko Kloos blog is one that I have read regularly for a while, good stuff.

[LagerHead]

Yet another great read that makes me wish I was more articulate. Very, very well thought out and excellent points.

[Guest Smitty]

Great article. I wish more people would "enlighten" themselves to the truth and not all of the bogus myths and lies that are commonly accepted nowadays.

[Chief07]

I could not have put it any better!

If only our Politicians had such clear thinking.

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

I could not have put it any better!

If only our Politicians had such clear thinking.

Or at least a good enough grasp of the English language to understand

"Shall not be infringed"

Only IF.....