Gun rights are unalienable, stemming directly from unalienable rights to life, liberty and property. The worth of the latter depend on their defense, and defense means the right to own guns. Self-defense is an unalienable right.
Gun rights do not come from government. They do not come from a constitution. They do not come from the Second Amendment.
No constitution, state or federal, and no local law can rightly abridge gun rights.
Any defense of rights is bound to involve not only guns proper but also argument. In fact a defense should foremost use argument and persuasion before resort to physical confrontations. The colonists engaged in lengthy argument, pamphlets, discussions, reading of political theory, petitions, debates, appeals and the like. We need to get gun rights right, that is, understand the position. And that position is to be found in the Declaration of Independence and other sources from our revolutionary era that argued for unalienable rights to life, liberty and property. And these are indissolubly connected to all men being created equal, which means that no one is born with or inherits a right to rule other people. There is no right to such monarchical rule.
But likewise, any right to rule by society or a government must derive from the people ruled, from their consent. There is no right to misrule on purpose. Derivative power of government is not and cannot be open-ended. Such power cannot contradict or go against the unalienable rights of each and every person. If it does, that is usurpation. That is subverting and blocking one’s exercise of proper rights by force. Usurpation is improper by negating the basis for proper use of powers that a people delegates to its agents. That basis is to defend the unalienable rights to life, liberty and property.
There has to be a reasoned reply to that Virginia Attorney General who insists that gun sanctuaries have no legal effect. Either the Declaration of Independence is correct and a solid basis for gun rights or it is not. And if it is not, then what is the basis held by that Virginia government official? His basis, which is false, must be found either in Virginia statutes, current and proposed, that usurp the power of the people to own guns or in defects in the Virginia constitution or both. And in their usurpation, they must form a false basis.
All rights violations likewise are held by the violators to be proper and valid when they are actually improper and false.
Getting gun rights right is essential to getting all rights right. Our country faces now and has always faced a confrontation between those people who adhere to unalienable rights and those who adhere to usurpation through improper government, between those who believe in and defend freedom and those who defend rule by usurpers that undercuts our unalienable rights.
9:22 am on December 21, 2019
