Americans can often take the Second Amendment for granted, even if they do support it. But across the pond, Europeans have lived for years without the right to bear arms – and an Italian woman recently reminded us just why Americans are so lucky to have gun rights.
Twitter user @XianCorleone tweeted a profound statement after watching the recent March For Our Lives protests against gun rights. “Take a European’s advice,” she started. “Last century our governments disarmed us. Now, in Germany & the UK they arrest you for Twitter & [Facebook] posts. Lesson? If the gov’t takes your 2nd Amendment, one day it’ll take your 1st.”
Americans, I’m watching the #GunControl protests from Italy. Take a European’s advice:
Last century our governments disarmed us. Now, in Germany & the UK they arrest you for Twitter & FB posts.
Lesson?
If the gov’t takes your 2nd Amendment, one day it’ll take your 1st.
— Redeemed Goddaughter (@XianCorleone) March 26, 2018
The President of the United States couldn’t have said it better himself.
Many anti-gun liberals – like Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky – think the Second Amendment is archaic, a right that hasn’t been relevant since the Civil War.
The second amendment was written when African Americans were still considered 3/5ths of a person…
As a matter of fact, if you read it, it didn’t even call them African Americans; it called them “Other Persons”
I really don’t want to listen to 200 years ago for EVERYTHING
— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) March 27, 2018
But the fact of the matter is that the Second Amendment guarantees all our other rights. Without it, we’d have no way to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government intent on silencing us. And then, people like Kasky – or, more likely, people who disagree with people like Kasky – would not even be able to protest.
Is that really what liberals want? Or do they not even realize the future they’re tempting?
Thankfully, for every anti-gun nut there’s a dozen armed Americans, and we’ll die before our right to bear arms is taken away.
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