To the editor:
In the New York Times’ Friday article about the Supreme Court giving us New Yorkers the right (finally) to carry guns around with us to fight off every challenge to our lives, well being and liberty, the final words were a quote from Justice Thomas’s legal opinion that said … wait for it … “the framers made a clear choice: They reserved to all Americans the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.”
Thomas is just throwing words into the argument that have no connection with the reality of the situation, misquoting the Second Amendment. That famous amendment says nothing about self defense so why did the justice claim that word was part of the amendment?
There is a corollary to the Second Amendment that preceded it by 11 years, 1776 to 1787. It is called the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, and it says (in a close paraphrase) — “Whenever any government abuses the rights of the people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right and the duty of the People to alter or abolish that government and build a new one and this right comes from God and cannot be rescinded by man.”
This is called “the right to revolution” and the second paragraph thus applies to the Second Amendment by providing a means to that revolution. This right to revolution is exactly what is meant when America is called the planet’s exceptional nation. No other nation has ever acknowledged their people have the right to revolution and the means to accomplish that noble aim. Only America.
Florida long ago adopted a ‘stand your ground’ self-defense law that presages the way some New Yorkers will act, copy-catting George Zimmerman’s rash behavior in killing the skittles-munching Trayvon Martin, who might still be alive had he been properly armed.
A broad interpretation of this decision says we have the right to defend our freedom from the likes of corporations forcing us to sign contracts agreeing not to sue them in court for violating our rights. The founders called this the right to “petition for a redress of our grievances” but now-a-days We the People just use the phrase “sue the bastards.” So Clarence joined his brethren and took actions to hinder our ability to sue the corporations.
His court also relieved us of our First Amendment rights to speak our minds. That was done in a case when a worker was fired because he refused to remove his “Obama for President” bumper sticker and the Court decided that the private property rights of the corporation are greater and more important than the First Amendment right of We the People to express what we think.
These kind of attacks on our freedoms are exactly why we need the right to keep and carry firearms at all times.
Sincerely,
Rick Gombas
Saranac Lake
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