Why do politicians want our guns?

Why do politicians want our guns?

So what is the hullabaloo about?

Americans have been carrying guns for decades. It has been, and is, a Constitutional right to "keep and bear arms." The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right vests in individuals, not merely collective militias.

So, what is all the hullabaloo now? What raised the question that should be no question? If the Constitution gives American citizens the right to own and carry weapons, why is owning and carrying a gun an issue?

Perhaps Mao Zedong can give us some insight. He said, "Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun."  In case you have forgotten, Mao Zedong (also Mao Tse-Tung) was the world's most prominent Chinese communist during the 20th century. Mao's Red Army overthrew Chiang Kai-Shek in 1949, and the communists seized power of mainland China.

It has also been said that, "The power of the gun determines who wins and survives." Perhaps that is why our founding fathers were so in favor of the people being armed. Thomas Jefferson said, "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." He also said, "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." and quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria, "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

A few more quotes may be of some help to convince any intelligent person to question the motives of those who are attempting to take the right for the people to stay armed.

George Mason (father of the Bill of Rights and The Virginia Declaration of Rights) is quoted as saying, "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." Grave thoughts to ponder. He also said, "I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians."

Noah Webster insightfully stated, “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.” Another one of his warnings went like this, "The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."

It would appear that our founding fathers were aware of the fact that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Mankind needs a restraining force to keep them serving in integrity. As James Madison observed, "A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace."

Hmm. If you are not convinced that the populace should retain the right to keep and bear arms then I would suggest that you have been addicted to the communist philosophy that believes that people do not know how to govern themselves and should be provided for by an ever growing government rather than by an all sufficient God.