With the recent events in Newtown and the re-emergence of the gun control debate, the Supreme Court decision in Heller has taken on a very different meaning and the interpretation of that decision by the radical right has given birth to continuous and bellicose threats of armed insurrection.  Now every attempt to enact safe and sane gun laws which would reduce the amount of bloodshed on the streets of America is responded to with statements which don't border on treason: they are treason.

Here are just a few examples:

March 9, 2009—NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial published at WorldNetDaily:  “How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution?”

March 11, 2009—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference and announces that “Our Founding Fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.”

March 21-22, 2009—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she wants residents of her state to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people—we the people—are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country.”

March 31, 2009—On the program "Your World with Neil Cavuto," FOX news contributor Dick Morris says, "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'—well, they're beginning to have a case."


You can thank the famously brilliant but morally befuddled Scalia for working backward to meet his conclusion that the second amendment apparently provides the people with the right to impose their will by force upon their own government should they fail at the ballot box.  This is a surprising statement from someone firmly ensconced within the belly of the tyrannical US government.

It goes without saying that conspiracist fear-mongering lunatics living in the fringes of society are storing fertilizer in their bomb-shelters and stockpiling ammunition alongside doomsday preppers.  The same conspiracism that gives rise to Islamist movements, where we are all props in their elaborate fantasy about the imminent, apocalyptic battle between good and evil is the same one that drives them.  The only difference is I don't live down the block from them.

There is a beautiful simplicity to this particular set of circumstances, however.  It now shows the eternal conflict between the power of the pen and the power of the sword.  It's safe to say that the gun "rights" advocates, who care little about their responsibilities to other and quite a bit about their absolute right to own a firearm, believe that the freedom stems from the barrel of the gun.  Mao said the very same thing, I believe.  How interesting that the righties and commies have this in common.

The circular firing range the gun crazies has created with their argument leaves them unfazed, a la Orwell.

It has been said quite often by now that there is little chance that a civil war which erupted would succeed with the kind of armaments available to these folks.  I perhaps give them too much credit when I used the phrase "civil war" since domestic terrorists would be a better label.

A government armed with Narusinsight (a computer program that "sniffs" communications as part of a domestic surveillance program, formerly called carnivore) doesn't need gun registrations, so making certain we shred all registration records does one thing: protects criminals.  A government that uses hellfire missiles, predator drones will just blow your house up.  They aren't coming to get your guns.  They will just kill you.  And apparently being an American citizen won't stop them, as you can see here.

Honestly, if you weren't worried about a tyrannical US government who was engaged in domestic surveillance, who has built a gigantic spying system that could easily be turned on US citizens (and has been), which all happened under Bush, why would you be concerned about Obama?  Granted, it's a little more chilling to have a guy who won the Nobel Peace Prize AND has a kill list, but come one.  Who are you kidding?

The answer from the gun crazies, when you point out the US military would make short work of them and their stupid AR-15's doesn't faze them.  They move right on to the argument that "well the military would side with us anyway".

Which is the gigantic, gaping hole in the side of their argument that sinks their ship.  If the you need the military to side with you to win a revolution, than the second amendment is completely irrelevant, other than a means by which you can prevent safe guns laws from being enacted to protect American citizens.

Thus the only real defense to tyranny is the first amendment.  Communicating to the military the importance of our democratic process and the need to fully engage it.

In the end you simply must pose this simple question to the gun crazies: if the voters voted in favor of a gun ban, and it was a majority decision by the majority of voters, would you honor it?  The answer is a clear no.  These treacherous, traitorous, deceitful terrorists would call themselves Americans, but they don't really believe in democracy. And they admit it by their actions and their threats.  They are cowards, hiding behind their weapons, using intimidation and fear because they live in fear of things they do not understand.