The Second Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". Thus says the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States.

Over the past four decades this amendment has come under tremendous attack by the Progressive left in this nation. Oh yes, we are told that our hunting rights will be protected. Ms. Hillary, recently seen tossing back a shot and beer, has now told us about her day in a duck blind where she shot a "banded" duck. Her opponent chided her on taking her "six gun" into a duck blind. Word of caution here, do not go into a duck blind with Barack Obama.

Had these two presidential candidates, and others before them , tried to convince our colonial ancestors that they some how needed the Second Amendment to protect their hunting rights, they would have been laughed off the farm. Our ancestors did not need a Constitutional guarantee to hunt. Guns were a way of life, a tool if you will, that you took with you for two reasons, to hunt animals and to protect yourself against unforeseen dangers whether man or beast.

The Progressives want to argue that the Second Amendment is not an individual right. Rather it is there for state militias. To the gun regulating Progressives, guns should be in the hands of what they perceive to be the modern militia, the National Guard and Reserves. According to my Compact Oxford Dictionary a militia is "a military force made up of civilians, used to supplement a regular army in an emergency".In short, a militia is a citizens army. During colonial times men were expected to report to the town square with weapons and ammunition that they supplied. They were, for the most part, not in uniform, and they practiced military drills on the town square in order that they could act in an effective manner during an emergency. They did not gather there to learn how to make decoys, call turkey, or stalk big game animals.

The Second Amendment is about self defense. You have the God given, not governmental given, right to protect yourself and your country. You can be called upon to this day to be a member of a citizens' militia where you would be required to bring your own gun and ammunition.

The United States Supreme Court recently heard a case involving the stringent Washington, DC gun ban. Under this ban, for all intents and purposes, citizens of the District could not own a gun. A lower court had decided that the ban was to restrictive and that the Second Amendment was an individual right. This decision was appealed to the High Court. Among the briefs and arguments was documentation that in modern times citizen militias have been created. One such example was in the state of Maryland during World War II. The governor, looking to the gun clubs on the Eastern Shore of his state, called on such clubs to serve in the capacity of militias because so many men had gone into the regular military and, along with the National Guard, had been called up for duty due to the war. The men in the gun clubs were expected to bring their own guns and ammunition and serve as the military force in the state. Some 60 plus briefs were filed on this case, a case that is going to make it clear once and for all that the Second Amendment is an individual right just like all the other rights found in the Bill of Rights and the other Amendments added to the Constitution. It's about time that this issue be put to rest so that we can rest in peace knowing that we will be able to protect ourselves from the interlopers on our rights whether they be foreign or domestic.

Lying, Misspeaking, and Integrity

A few weeks ago Hillary Clinton managed to tell a falsehood, otherwise known as a lie, about her trip to Bosnia. She was accompanied by her daughter and a lot of press because she was the First Lady of the United States. Supposedly she reported this event in her book, sorry I haven't read it, and said nothing about what has now become Snipergate. Were this the first time she exaggerated we might excuse and forgive her accepting her statement that she was "sleep deprived".This was not here first lie.

On September 11, 2001, Hillary reported that Chelsea had been running in the area of the Twin Towers when they went down. Chelsea reported that was not the case.

Hillary had previoulsy reported that her parents had named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who had conquered Mt. Everest. He conquered it some half dozen years after Mrs. Clinton was born. Given these misspeaks, one could reasonably come to the conclusion that there are probably many more in Mrs. Clinton's wardrobe.

Now let's look at bit further into this matter. We are all well acquainted with Bill Clinton's proclivity to lie. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. in his book "The Clinton Crack Up" commented on Mr. Clinton's lying. Tyrrell said that Bill told a lie when he didn't need to as though he were practicing and he told a big lie when a small one would have sufficed.

There are two questions here. Are both of these people pathological liars and should we even concern ourselves with this?

Let me offer some answers. I believe they are pathological liars. How do you explain this kind of behavior in this era of technology? Did Hillary forget that they were running film when she was in Bosnia? Did she forget her own paranoia that the vast right wing conspiracy was watching her? Did she really think we would all forgive and forget? Was she counting on her pals in the press to not bring out the film? I could go on but you get my point.

As to whether we should be concerned about this the answer is a definite yes. Continual lying goes directly to character. Why do you thing people you know and love, parents, former teachers, your prist or minister, caution you about it? Did your parents ever tell you that constant lying could cause those who loved you to lose trust in you, something you did not want to happen. Can you imagine your parents not trusting you? Can you imagine being the president and the nation not trusting you?

Her lie about Bosnia brought out other lies she told. This reminded all of us about the famous "I never had sex with that woman" lie by her husband and all the lies he told. This is why she has the high negatives she has and will continue to have. And this is why she will not be the president of the United States.