by William Nadeau Esq

Created on: July 11, 2008   Last Updated: May 03, 2011

I know this will sound like it is coming from a senile old man, but I have long believed that our founding fathers came up with the second amendment because they didn't entirely trust any government yet. They figured an average citizen would have more respect from the central government if he or she was still armed.

That is easy to catch when one looks back further and sees where the settlers first escaped from. Back in Europe only the royalty was allowed to be armed and the peasants were pushed around by them because they had no way of fighting back.

It must also be pointed out that way back in the seventeen hundreds in the United States the average citizen needed a gun just to feed themselves and their family. Does it make sense to think the men who wrote the second amendment believed his fellow settlers should bow hunt to keep fed and alive.

Even though the west wasn't being settled as the United States formed, it is pretty obvious that the men who were forming the government didn't want the people to face Native Americans with just a bow and arrow. They had experience in dealing with those Indians when they had first arrived in North America.

I have to admit that way back twenty years ago when it looked like the Federal government was going to take away my Colt 44 caliber cap and ball pistol and leave me defensless, I thought back to the fencing class I had taken before active duty. That gave me the idea that all I would have to do was make my own sword out of an old car shock. I could even have sharpened it like they did way back in the sixteen hundreds and carried it around like a work knife.

The point of self-defense isn't ignorant and just a simple lock blade work knife can be made to flip open fast enough to work as a weapon.

In my case I was lucky to have rigged mine so. At a wild biker party one nut tried to kill me with his Colt 45 Army pistol. I lucked out and was able to stab that nut in his inner thigh and escape to the door before he shot me the first time.

That kind of incident would make many people anti guns and claim a law against owning one would be every useful in saving people in any situation.

The belief in gun ownership sure changed after 9-11. It seamed like every liberal Democrat in New Mexico armed himself believing in self-defense. It was a good thing that some nuts hadn't taken their hunting rifles out to deer hunt in some Muslum church parking lot.

Again people who are against guns would have a reason to act politically and push others to believe that the only individuals mentally sound enough for gun ownership are working for the government. Sure they will say that there is a mental test given to people before they are allowed to run for office. That way all the voters can be trusted into electing mentally sound candidates et al.

Sure one can gamble as they please, and since this isn't a voluntary poker game, people shouldn't be forced to gamble when they aren't armed for it.

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