The Vanishing Right to Self-defense

March 8, 2013 07:16


All government fears liberty. By its nature, government is the negation of liberty. God has given us freedom, and the government has taken it away. – Judge Andrew Napolitano

 

 

By Judge Andrew Napolitano at Fox News

 

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In all the noise caused by the Obama administration’s direct assault on the right of every person to keep and bear arms, the essence of the issue has been drowned out. The president and his big-government colleagues want you to believe that only the government can keep you free and safe …..

 

Government compels, restrains and takes. Thomas Jefferson understood that when he wrote that our liberties are inalienable and endowed by our Creator, and the only reason we have formed governments is to engage them to protect our liberties. We enacted the Constitution as the supreme law of the land to restrain the government. Yet somewhere along the way, government got the idea that it can more easily protect the freedom of us all from the abuses of a few by curtailing the freedom of us all. I know that sounds ridiculous, but that’s where we are today.

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