Recent news stories report progress of liberty enthusiasts and their right to carry on private property. It's slow, but it's coming along.  

Some stories report how employees can now keep their weapon in their workplace parking lot. Thugs will not respect this in favor of either the employer or the employee, but it is good to publicize how weapons are that much closer to their owners.  

Even with these recent breakthroughs, reporters seem to feel that the issue of private property rights of the property owner / employer is infringed. They repeatedly bring up the idea that this should not be tolerated. 

Here it is, friends: the second amendment is absolute and private property rights are not.  

The second amendment is absolute because it must be if it is to operate at all. The second amendment is the lethal force which backs our sovereignty, and any challenge to it is a challenge to our sovereignty. All gun laws over time are illegal and a challenge to our sovereignty. These need to be repealed in recognition of who is the Sovereign.  

Private property rights have their exceptions where the second amendment has no exceptions. A property owner can refuse access to some people as the owner may wish, but property owners cannot commit crimes on private property. A duly issued search warrant can gain access to property against the wishes of the property owner, and trespasses have affirmative defenses which acquit a person for illegal entry without consent.  

Technically and in all practicality, the second amendment shall not be infringed, which is a technical term for interference. Shall not is a term of art and its language gives the right its absolute nature. Just because this is defied does not change custom and usage in our societal mores and norms: gun control is still a fraud.   

Gun control is not a differing opinion; it is not a wrong without damage, it is in fact most damaging to millions of persons. Millions have died because they believed it was wrong to be armed. It is so likely that they were sufficiently intimidated by gun control that they took their chances with thuggery rather than battle the system.  

Americans need to grasp why the second amendment is absolute as a means of realizing their own sovereignty and powers to resist centralization. This translates into something for smaller government: refusing to be a victim of both the thugs and the system. A two-fer. 

This is why Americans need to be free from the dilemma of choosing felony or funeral. I'll even add a third: Financing. Financing bureaucracy. This is why I believe that the repeal of all gun laws must be the first step to reducing the size of government.     

Incremental infringements on the second amendment have been relatively small and ever so subtle over the generations. They have been framed to sound reasonable under current conditions, such as the thirties when machine guns were used by crime gangs. Machine gun bans were the response of the government. The giveaway to the stupidity or hostility of public servants is in how they made it illegal to own a machine gun when the crimes of the gangs ought to have been - to the mind of a reasonable person - sufficient; murder was already illegal. The proof of hostility and stupidity was in making laws which applied only to the law-abiding who never did the gangland shootings. Of course, as we all know, gun laws do not apply to criminals.  

Hostility to guns is not a measure of intelligence, it is a measure of impairment.

The bottom line is that the right to keep and bear arms is absolute and property rights are not.   

Don't forget to write. John@goodforthecountry.com

Happy Independence Day.  "It's not the Fourth of July, it's Independence Day." - David Codrea. 

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 As if the "Project Gunwalker" atrocity does not utterly destroy any claim by the Obama regime to legitimacy in the gun rights/"gun control" debate, the administration is reportedly planning to proceed with draconian new gun regulations.  

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