NC Renegades

It’s hard to understand the future from the present. As a follower of Christ, I try to envision what path may lie ahead for me – knowing – having been through it many times – that the way is not clear, that I feel forced into certain situations only to find out that the future I wanted went through the past that I did not want.

So it is for this nation. Right now it is impossible to envision a return to liberty where every law is first judged by the impact to personal liberty and whether the government has the right to impose such a law. It is so distant, this idea of a society based around liberty (the way it was supposed to be before the progressive movement over a hundred years ago got ahold of our government and turned it against liberty) that many can no longer even see it.

Imagine, for a minute, an FCC (we won’t argue the right of the FCC to exist right now) that banned any company from registering a mobile telephone where encryption did not absolutely guarantee the privacy of phone calls made over their system and failure to provide this encryption would endanger their license to operate. Very possible, completely doable, but not even attempted by a government in hostility toward the privacy of the individual.

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Nothing evokes more emotion than “it’s for the children”. If we cannot secure Liberty for our children, what is the point? Should we sit back and listen to the thunderous applause for our legislators’ attempts to secure the safety of our children? Do you think that our children’s safety is more important to them than their indoctrination by the state?

Let’s go back to a time when our children went to school to be educated. That education included firearms’ training in the schools. Rifle teams and shooting ranges were part of that period. And yet, our children were safe. What has changed? Besides 1 in 6 of our children currently being treated with psychiatric drugs? Besides a legal system that is more concerned with political perception than safety and protection. Besides the transformation of our schools into indoctrination camps? We see the results in the children being used by the media to exploit a tragedy.

Let’s be honest: the 2nd Amendment is under attack and is the focus of all efforts of the other side. Why? Let’s begin at the reason for the 2nd Amendment.

When the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, federalists claimed the new government would only have limited powers expressly delegated to it. This wasn’t enough for anti-federalists like George Mason, who wanted explicit guarantees to certain rights in order to prevent any potential encroachment by the federal government.

One of them was the right to keep and bear arms. Mason wrote:

“A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free State”

The Founding Fathers, having just broken away from Great Britain, understood the new federal government they were ratifying might one day become just as tyrannical. If it had the authority to control citizen access to firearms, then it could disarm them, just as the British attempted to do. This would make any attempts to restore liberties futile.

The Second Amendment was specifically included in the Bill of Rights to prevent this.

The 2nd Amendment is not about personal security or hunting. It was meant to ensure that the government will be kept in its proper role. This then begs the question: why is the government so adamant on diminishing/eradicating the 2nd Amendment. Again, some facts are self-evident.

David DeGerolamo

The liberal campaign against the NRA has successfully pressured some companies to sever their partnerships with the gun rights group but it’s having another, unintended effect: galvanizing conservatives who feel the NRA has been unfairly attacked.

Liberal activist groups turned the NRA into a scapegoat for the Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead and immediately launched a pressure campaign meant to weaken the NRA, which touts itself as the nation’s longest-standing civil rights organization.

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