In this month’s Catholic Star Herald, the newspaper of the
Camden Diocese, Father Robert J. Gregorio writes an impassioned plea to neuter
Americans’ right to defend life, limb, liberty and property by repealing
the Second Amendment.
Unfortunately, Father, chose to begin his chain of reasoning
by invoking Germany’s decision to place speed limits on the autobahn for the
greater public good. In boxing, this is
called “leading with your chin”.
Father opens his article with the phrase, “Not that long ago
in Germany”. Ok, let’s talk about what
went down in Germany no so long ago. The
Nazi Party disarmed
its political opponents. They made
it felonious for any Jew to own firearms.
How did things work out for those disarmed Jews?
In the Soviet Union and then later in Maoist China private
gun ownership was banned. In both
countries and in others as well, the banning of firearms has routinely resulted in the
genocide of millions.
Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Communist China had one
other feature in common as well. All
three suppressed religion. Yes, to some
extent, they allowed the freedom to “worship”.
They allowed people to go into their church buildings to hold services
but they were forbidden to put their faith to work outside of the church walls. Sound familiar?
The left is at war with people of faith in America. This is most evidenced in the HHS mandates
and in civil rights actions against those who object to same sex marriage. Candidate Obama spoke volumes of the elite’s
contempt for devout, salt-of- the-earth Americans when he dismissed them as
rubes that cling their “guns or religion”.
Should we be afraid of our own government? The short is “yes”. Federal agencies from the Post
Office to Homeland Security from the Social
Security Administration to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are stockpiling weaponry. This same government is also growing more and
more intolerant of whistleblowers
who see the king in all his nakedness and call attention to it.
On a local level our
police forces and
turning into paramilitary units by recycling the cast-off battlefield
weapons of our international wars. In
addition to this we know that our government is spying on as and the NDAA
authorizes it to indefinitely jail supposed enemies without warrant or recourse
to habeas corpus.
Like the cowards
that they are, government bullies the old and the weak. They sent in a small army to harass septuagenarian,
Cliven Bundy. They backed off only when
massed militia forces stood them down. The Feds are also picking on 70 year old
medical marijuana patient, Larry
Harvey in Washington State, looking to send him to prison. This is the same government that killed
innocent women and children in Waco and Ruby Ridge. Locally, in my home town, the police fire
bombed the local Black radical group, The Move, killing women and kids. Need I go on?
Lawless states, such the one that America is fast becoming,
cannot tolerate dissent. Religious minorities
are often the most truculent dissenters, and therefore bear the full brunt of State
suppression. However, God’s people need
not be trampled upon by Philistines.
Mosses, Joshua, Saul and David understood this. Judah Maccabee got it. Solomon did not and this led to destruction
of the kingdom.
Yes, gun ownership entails risk. Diving cars and flying planes entail risks
that kill thousands yearly. The foods
that we consume, the beverages that we drink and the drugs that we take each
entail risk and side effects. Free enterprise
implies the risk of failure and bankruptcy.
Freedom is risky but freedom is also glorious. Freedom empowers humans to be all that they
can be. Freedom is the only hope of
human kind ever lifting itself out of the mire poverty and destitution. We see that lesson repeated over and over
again in the Developing World.
Freedom requires a free people to be able to protect itself
from the usurpations of authoritarian regimes.
Freedom requires an armed and vigilant people. We cannot depend on government to protect our
liberty. Like the Stockholm Syndrome, that
is a dangerous delusion of placing trust in your captor.
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