The importance of the Second Amendment is made clear throughout the world if you only care to look. From horrific crime in the third-world to Europeans’ assault on free speech, the evidence isn’t hard to find.
Over at our sister site, Townhall, my colleague Kurt Schlichter notes another example.
See, we kicked the crap out of Iran for a while, then tried to get them to play nice for a little while, but there’s a pro-gun lesson in there that no one should ignore, according to Schlichter.
It’s remarkable how the real world always illustrates the Founders’ wisdom, graphically and undeniably. Take the current situation in Iran. It’s a country with a great history, full of intelligent people run by a bunch of backward, semi-human savages with a ridiculous apocalyptic theology that is so brutal it killed 30,000 or so of its own people a few months ago just to stay in power. And now it’s still in power, at least over its own people, despite the United States and Israel righteously devastating its conventional military capabilities. You can sync its navy, shoot down its Air Force, and smash its missiles; the power on the ground requires contending power on the ground. Our glorious alliance with Israel – suck on that podcast dorks – cannot kill every goat molester with an AK-47 and a conviction that the more he murders, the more virgins he gets. That job belongs to the people of Iran, and unfortunately, they don’t have the tools to do it. They are disarmed, and therefore, they are serfs, not citizens, much like the English and Australians. In Iran, the answer to the problem of securing freedom and justice is the same as it is here in America and everywhere else:
Guns.
Guns are freedom. Guns are liberty. Guns are the last bulwark – a real one, not one that enjoys watching the pool boy cavort with his wife – of freedom. Of course, it’s not actually guns that secure freedom. It’s violence. Some dumb people will tell you violence never solves anything. The only people who can tell you violence never solves anything are people for whom the problem of violence has been solved by other people who know what the hell they’re talking about and who use violence to solve the problem of violence. You know, like in America. Only in a place like America can people be so safe and secure and prosperous – something secured by men with guns – that they can belittle and be right those who do the dirty work of doing so. It’s particularly galling that those who benefit from freedom use their freedom to trash the way those who give it to them do so.
Iran has slaughtered tens of thousands of its own people for having the nerve to speak out against the Islamofascist tyranny that is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Free speech is a basic civil liberty, one that every decent nation at least pays lip service to, even if they don’t actually respect it. Europeans are waging a campaign against it, claiming to want to stamp out hate speech, but as of yet, they haven’t murdered people for protesting.
Yet.
Here in the United States, a lot of people want similar controls on so-called hate speech, which often boils down to just saying things they personally disagree with. Even if it didn’t, though, once you target speech, you open the door for all manner of things that no one should want to see.
We’re not even necessarily talking about rioters who are committing acts of violence that threaten innocent lives. We’re talking about people who just want the government to get out of their way and let them enjoy actual freedom, like they did before the Islamic Revolution.
No, just protesting, and they were gunned down like rabid animals simply because the regime didn’t want to listen to them speak, much less act on it.
More importantly, though, they had no means to fight back.
Tyranny can come upon any nation. That’s because the tyrannical seek power for power’s sake, but they often are silver-tongued enough to convince others that they mean well. Adolph Hitler was easily the most evil world leader in history, but he didn’t take power by force. He was elected as the Chancellor of Germany. He convinced people that he had Germany’s best interests at heart.
Don’t tell me that it can’t happen here, either, especially as so many make comparisons between Trump and old Adolph, simply because they don’t like his politics. Those people believe it can. We believe it can, just from a different direction.
And the only thing that has consistently stopped it hasn’t been the Constitution or the courts. They help, but they have no means of enforcing their orders.
No, it’s been We the People. More accurately, We the Armed People.
That’s not going to change. Why else do you think that the would-be tyrants tend to favor disarming the people so often?
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