The importance of the 2nd amendment.

I just watched the Collateral Murder video, in which U.S. soldiers "engage" (murder) a dozen people for having guns and cameras.  Makes me happy we're protected by the 2nd amendment, so the government can't shoot us for owning guns (which is kind of hypocritical when you think about it).



War.  It is an excuse to kill people without a trial.  It is much more convenient to kill people when you don't have to worry about laws and justice, and other annoyances.

Why not turn to the law?  Why not use the courts?  All the wars of the last decade have been blamed on the actions of a few individuals (Qaddafi, Bin Laden, Hussein).  Why not just put those individuals on trial?  Why kill 100,000 civilians to get a man who killed 3,000?

If we ignore the law abroad, we will inevitably ignore it at home.  Disregarding the law "to keep us safe" destroys the only bulwark against oppression.

Owning a gun is not a crime.  Owning anything is not a crime.  Things that we own may be used in crimes.  In that case the police should get a warrant to search for such items.  But now the government busts into our homes and arrests us for simply owning the wrong things.

We need to regain a respect for individual rights, of those at home and abroad.

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