Remember Lexington and Concord

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a Responsibility

Please follow my logic.  If the US Constitution acknowledges each US citizen’s right to keep and bear arms, is it not our patriotic duty and responsibility to own and know how to use arms in our own defense and in defense of our families, friends and fellow humans.  This  explicitly protected unalienable right acknowledges that we each, as citizens,  are the last line of defense against tyranny.  If we default on this responsibility and leave it up to our neighbor, what can we say of our level of personal responsibility to ourselves, our family and friends and community.

The Responsibility to Keep and Bear Arms is an Ancient Heritage

Where did the founding fathers get this idea of the right to keep and bear arms.  Much of our Anglo American (sorry dear reader – we were British colonies) legal patrimony is explained in Sir William Blackstone’s inimitable “Commentaries on the Law”.

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Blackstone Arms

As extracted from the above :

This comes from Blackstone’s discussion of  “The Rights of Persons”.

“And we have seen that these rights consist, primarily, in the free enjoyment of personal security, of personal liberty, and of private property.  So long as these remain inviolate, the subject is perfectly free; for every species of compulsive tyranny and oppresion must act in opposition to one or the other of these rights, having no other object upon which it can possibly be employed.  To preserve these from violation, it is necessary that the constitution of parliaments be supported in it’s full vigor; and limits certainly known, be set to the royal perogotive.  And lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated or attacked, the subjects of England are entitled,

1. In the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law;

2. Next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances;

3. And lastly to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense.

And all these rights and liberties it is our birthright to enjoy entire; unless where the laws of our country have laid them under necessary restraints.  Restraints in themselves so gentle and moderate, as will appear upon farther enquiry, that no man of sense or probity would wish to see them slackened……. I shall close my remarks upon it with the expiring wish of the famous father Paul to his country, “Esto Perpetua!”  William Blackstone, ESQ. “Commentaries on the Laws of England” Book the First, pages 140 and 141.

Why read Blackstone?

“The man who is ignorant of that which happened before he was born will always remain a boy.” – Tacitus, Roman historian.

And I join my voice to King Leonides, Blackstone, the founding fathers:  “Esto Perpetua” and “Molon Labe”.

Go Out and Invest in a Gun

You are the last line of defense for our liberties.  Go out and buy a gun and learn how to use it.  Oh, and reading between the lines in Blackstone, do it safely and responsibly – use common sense.   Not as those twits back in DC would define common sense, but rather as a “man [woman] of sense or probity” would define it.  Remember, that gun you own is the last line of defense against tyranny!