The Natural, God-Given Right of Self Defense

“… All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…”

Where Do Rights Come From? Our Founders Knew

by Woody Jenkins, editor

CENTRAL — Listening to the nightly news and hearing the rantings of the President, politicians in Washington, and members of the left-wing media, you would hardly know there were things such as God, the Founding Fathers, liberty, tyranny, natural law, natural rights, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights.

It’s as though those things don’t exist or can be ignored.

Listening to those same voices, you would never know that the entire basis of the founding of our nation was that God made us and gave us rights — inalienable, natural rights — rights that come before any government.

And you would certainly never know that the primary reason our government in this country was created was to secure those God-given rights.

The Declaration of Independence says that men “are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” — “that among these are Life” — and “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men.”

In other words, our government was not created to give someone a job or redistribute wealth or hand out political favors or supply catheters or birth control devices.

No, our country was founded on the idea that men have rights from  God and that the purpose of government is to secure those God-given rights.

The first right is the right to Life.  That is a natural right, a God-given right.  Whether you live on a desert island or in the heart of a big city.  Whether it’s in a free country or a slave country, you have the natural right to life.  That means, among other things, the right to defend your life.

The difference between the United States and many other places is that we have a Constitution written by men who understood natural law and natural rights.  And they built into that Constitution protections of our natural rights.

As a result, they drafted the 2nd Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms.  It is a Constitutional right — a legal right — whose purpose is protect our natural right of self defense.

When a tin-horn politician who knows nothing of history and has no respect for the Constitution says he wants to take away the firearms by which we defend our families, our homes, and ourselves, he is our mortal enemy.

Firearms are the great equalizer.  They allow the weak to survive and flourish, instead of being killed or enslaved by the strong. The petite young woman or the elderly person suddenly becomes the match of the strongest man.

With a powerful tool to defend themselves, they need not live in fear.  They need not be raped, killed, or sold into slavery.

In fact, think about slavery for a moment.  Would the Africans ever had been captured, sold into slavery, and brought to America in chains if they had had firearms to protect themselves?  Of course not.  But they had no more than primitive weapons to defend themselves and they ended in bondage.

So will we, if we allow Obama and his band of would-be tyrants to seize our means of self-defense.

In Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, Castro’s Cuba, and just about every  other tyranny, it works like this:  First, register your firearms.  Second, seize your firearms.  Third, shoot you.

It’s really very simple.

Now is the moment we must resist with all our might.  Obama’s gun control plans must be stopped.

We must not compromise our natural right of self-defense or our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.