Amping Up the Effort for Stricter Gun Control, Part II
By Gary Hancock: As discussed in Part I of this article , the Constitution attests and secures that government is prohibited from infringing on the inviolable right of the individual to effectively weaponize against a threat to their absolute rights. That prohibition was included in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution to sustain the individual’s inalienable right to self protection, and more specifically as a last resort safeguard against a government fallen to tyranny and despotism. To confront a threat with armed force – the force powerful enough to kill – obviously the threat must be extreme. A threat to life (which could take the form of starvation or a direct attack on one’s person or family) would clearly be an extreme threat. A threat to other inalienable rights such as “liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” however, could be separate from a threat to life and be of varying degrees. A threat to one’s life, as in a direct and sudden attack by an aggressor, is the most appa...
