The Zombieslayer

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.

I don’t get it. This Amendment for some strange reason is offensive. When I talk about the First Amendment, I get a lot of positive feedback. When I talk about the Second, people get all butt hurt.

Guns are a good thing. They’re a good thing for three reasons - they help us fight crime, they help us defend our borders from foreign invasion, and they’re the final check and balance against tyranny when our courts have failed us. I’ll address each of these one by one.

Crime - Call an ambulance, a pizza deliverer, and the police at the same time.  Guess who will arrive last? Exactly.

No thanks.  I’ll trust Mr. Shotgun and my dogs to defend my house instead.  Enough said.

Foreign invasion

The Japanese Generals knew they couldn’t beat America in the 1940s. Unfortunately for them, none of them had the balls to tell Hirohito that behind every blade of grass, they’d be an American with a rifle. So, invade they did, and got their asses kicked. Anyone else want to try?

A funny little story. Ronald Reagan made the mistake of telling a bunch of Texans how we need to support the Contras or else the Sandanistas will invade America. The Texans’ response? “Bring them on!”

Tyranny - This is a quote from Justice Alex Kozinski, a Judge who gets it.

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

-Justice Alex Kozinski, US 9th

Mr. Kozinski gets it. He understands when the government has become a police state, when they start silencing people they don’t like, it needs to be overthrown, and overthrown violently. I’ve heard people on the Left say there’s no way to oppose an evil dictatorship with force if it ever happened in the U.S. of A. That’s not only fatalistic, it’s downright stupid.

Let’s do a little math. In America, eighty million people own guns. Of those eighty million with guns, we own around three hundred million guns. That’s more than one gun per person. Now, I don’t think I need to say how bad guerilla warfare is. Imagine a guerilla war against eighty million people with three hundred million guns. Even China would get slaughtered.

The last thing to keep in mind is that every genocide in the 20th century was preceeded by gun confiscation. If you wanted to round up a bunch of people and liquidate them, good luck if they’re all armed. Of course, the day the government starts rounding up my neighbors because they’re a certain race, ethnicity, or religion, I’m passing out my extras.

“If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.” - Aaron Zelman, JPFO

Mr. Zelman gets it. I hope you do too. Because I know, when the economy crashes, there’s always a scapegoat. Having long-hair and being multi-racial, there’s a good chance that scapegoat will be me. However, I shoot back. And I make head shots at 200 meters without a scope.