THE IMPORTANCE OF THE 2ND AMENDMENT
Tuesday Column
Open Your Eyes w/ Caleb Lawson
3/19/19
The Second Amendment is an important part of the U.S. Constitution because it gives American citizens the amazing right to keep and bear arms. The main purpose of the 2nd Amendment is for self-preservation. We need guns to protect us, not only from local threats, like a home invasion but also from the very possible threat of a tyrannical government!
One reason guns are so important is because they save lives. According to the CDC, here in the United States, 500,000 to over 3 million people are saved by guns every single year. That’s truly an amazing number of lives saved considering that roughly 30,000 lives are lost due to guns per year. Sixty-five percent of those 30,000 deaths are by suicide, so we shouldn’t count those. Fifteen perfect of those deaths are by law enforcement in the line of duty. Now let’s compare. When you look at the statistics (3 million saved vs 30,000 lost) you can clearly see that the amount of people that are saved due to firearms outweighs the lives lost.
The Second Amendment not only saves lives, but it also prevents the United States from becoming a tyrannical government. As history tells us, Adolf Hitler once said, “To conquer a nation, you must first disarm it’s citizens.” As we know, that’s exactly what he did. He banned guns, easily conquered the nation, and then murdered 13 million defenseless people. The same thing happened in the Soviet Union when Joseph Stalin banned guns. After he disarmed the people, he brutally killed over 20 million! Mao Zedong of China also enacted a gun ban and then killed over 20 million defenseless people! We can never let that happen here. As the great Winston Churchill said in a 1948 speech, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
The 2nd Amendment was created by our wise Founding Fathers as a failsafe to prevent The United States of America from becoming a tyrannical government sometime in the future. We must never let what unfortunately happened in China, The Soviet Union, Germany, and many other places, happen to us here in The United States. The Left truly wants to strip away our ability to protect ourselves, our family, our property and our other fundamental rights by banning guns. But we need to honor the sacrifice that our Founding Fathers made in order for us to keep our citizens armed and free!
For the sake of America’s future, we must never allow the Left to take away our God-given right to keep and bear arms. We must always protect the 2nd Amendment!
I hope this OPENS YOUR EYES.
Caleb Lawson is a weekly columnist for As a Matter of Fact.
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