The 2nd Amendment does not deal with the right to keep and bear arms so that one may hunt, nor does not deal with the right to keep and bear arms so that one may target practice. These are pluses, of course, but are not the reasons underlying the amendment.

The 2nd Amendment deals with the unalienable God-given right of all people to defend themselves with any means they have, including any form of arms they are able to purchase and/or manufacture for themselves. If one can buy or build a 105 mm cannon, it is his right.

Contrary to dips who attempt to mislead others into believing that if all firearms are confiscated we will have a safer society, the antithesis is true. Society will not be safer - it will be in shambles controlled, supposedly, by what may only be termed martial law.

Those who do not obey laws now will be free to make every law-abiding citizen a victim. No worries for them as police forces usually lag far behind criminal acts by those who have chosen a life of crime. It would be no different under martial law as witnessed during riots.

Seldom, for example, is a rape interrupted by a law enforcement officer nor is it often an impending victim is able to call 911 and have the police show up in time to prevent the ravaging of her (or his - lots of gay rapist around now) person. Or, to stop burglaries. Or, any of the millions of other crimes committed annually in this nation.

Currently, criminals don’t often break into people’s homes while the people are home. But, confiscate all firearms and find out what happens. It will be as in England and Australia with in-home invasions increasing. Why not? After all, what fear do the criminals have, particularly if they are armed?

How many robberies are actually foiled by police being Johnny-on-the-spot? It is rare that one hears of any although I suppose there must be some. But, many are stopped by armed customers, other citizens, and store employees. Of course, these are not publicized as it is against the agenda of the federal government.

Granted, protecting one’s self and others against criminals is a definite plus to the 2nd Amendment. In our society, it becomes more of a plus daily. But, most important of all is the fact that as long as we keep and bear arms, we have defense against government. How important is this?

Without citizens being armed, the government can do anything it damn well wishes. It could invade your home, terrorize you and your family, take anything it wants, seize your property, and sell it for profit to the government.

It could take your money, fine you without reason or any other purpose other than just getting more money for itself, control every court so that the judicial system would no longer even allege it is interested in justice, put you in jail for no reason other than just using it as a means to control others, beat the crap out of you for not having your ID with you, and shoot you for protesting being unconstitutionally stopped.

It could control your religion, what you say and even put you in prison for teaching people about the government, monitor your private conversations, monitor your banking practices, determine on what you spend your money, who you associate with, what organizations you belong to, stop or control meetings and assemblies with other citizens, make books with truth concerning government and government cover-ups illegal to write and sell, and, of course, censor any and all literature it might deem not suitable for its “subjects”.

It could control your property by forcing a property tax which, if not paid, would result in the government confiscating your property and selling it off for back-taxes due (funny how this is often to a friend of someone in government). Thus, you only rented your property - you never owned it since your retaining the property meant a payment to the government.

Due process would be ignored. Whatever the government ordered judges to do would be the outcome of any judicial proceeding. Search and seizure would be as common as the sun coming up in the mornings. The more that is seized, the more government officials get of the take.

Ask those law-abiding citizens who have had property seized what it cost them. Start with those ripped off by the Louisiana law enforcement people. Woe be to those of you who are stopped with several hundred dollars on your person. It is the excuse law enforcement needs to take all your property by accusing, but never arresting, you of being a drug dealer.

Of course, the war against drugs would be over as there wouldn’t be any governmental need for it. Now, the need is there so that government organizations (BATF, FBI, DEA, and so on) can invade any of the States under the pretense of fighting the war against drugs.

Likewise would the war against crime no longer be a necessity. It is now used to fool people into thinking government actions against firearms are a necessity. Even 911 has been used to build a more accurate database on determining exactly where a residence is. Thus, 911 naming of roads when, in reality, government doesn’t have any right to know where in the 50 States any law-abiding person is or exactly where his home is. (Yes, all those census questions were unconstitutional excepting the one needing to know how many people were in each resident.)

Money, for all practical purposes, would be worthless as there wouldn’t be any backing behind it. In other words, money would not have any value as it could not be traded for an equal amount of gold or silver from the federal government. What you get with the otherwise worthless paper would depend only on what the government would give you in trade.

Actually, it might well be that you would never see any money but only worthless entries on a form. Plastic would transfer your labor to ‘account balance’ and then deduct for items and list the purchases/balance in computers and read-outs, maybe even hard copies. Simply put, all products would be owned by government with you trading directly through your labor with the government.

You would not be able to even get married without government permission. It would determine who you could marry, live with, fornicate with, and visit. Discussions during visitations would, of course, be monitored, particularly if key words were detected, including ‘gun’, ‘revolt’, ‘oppression’, ‘protest’, ‘tax’, ‘privacy’, ‘militia’, ‘Constitution’, ‘weapons’, ‘automatics’, ‘drugs’, ‘cash’, ‘freedom’, ‘religion’, ‘liberty’, and so on.

You could not engage in any occupation you wished without being granted permission by government. You would have to be licensed even though your talent showed you clearly capable of the tasks required for the occupation.

Your means of transportation would be controlled. Your vehicles would have to meet government standards, be taxed to be operable as would your ability to drive, and various other taxes paid. Otherwise, government would prohibit you freely traveling this land of ours.

You would only be able to take drugs as deemed by the government as acceptable. Funny, though, isn’t it, that the deadliest drug available now is the one responsible for one of the largest single item tax sources for the government. Of course, this is tobacco, a plant that any American should be able to grow, harvest, and sell but cannot.

Your children would be numbered at birth or soon after much as a breeder of prime breeding livestock does now. It would be a means of branding for identification and tracking throughout life, including reproduction and the resulting reproduction lineage. The person’s life would be an open book to the government.

Now, what is the importance of the 2nd Amendment. Most of the above is all ready here. To fully instate it, however, the government must get all firearms from the people as, sooner or later, a very large group of true Americans are going to get organized and, simultaneously, the straw that broke the camel’s back will result in arms being used in defense of the liberties we are supposed to have.

That is the government’s fear. It cares not about your rights and liberties except in the negative sense. It cares only about oppression and complete subservience of the people of this nation.

Ask your politicians what their stand is on the right to keep and bear arms and the rest of the Bill of Rights. Ask them their stand on limiting government as it is limited in the Constitution.

Ask them of their stand in forcing the doing away with the IRS/BATF illegally operating in the 50 States. Ask them why they condone the stealing of trillions of American citizens earnings each and every year.

Ask them why you are not allowed to grow all the tobacco you want - or to make and sell alcohol within your own state. The federal government cannot control these through its limited powers - it can only control them by terrorists' raids on those who do as they have the constitutional rights to do.

If satisfactory answers as to preserving the Constitution are not uttered, then, by God, tell them to get ready to pack their bags, that their days are numbered.

Have them arrested for treason against the 50 States, disbarred for violating their oaths of office, arrested for accepting bribes (along with the businesses who did the bribing) otherwise known as 'contributions', and jail every judge who has ever decided against a citizen concerning taxes for conspiracy and accepting bribes in illegal conversions of property.

You see, Folks, the 2nd Amendment is all we have that can force the government to recognize our rights as recognized in the Constitution. Our right to keep and bear arms is all that has kept the government somewhat at bay.

It is the amendment that all other rights revolve around. Remove it by allowing confiscation of arms and you might as well kiss your “not-nearly-as-free-as-it-was-even-a-decade-ago” butt goodbye because government will own it totally.

If you are one of the dumb-butts pushing for gun control, you may deserve living in servitude but we, who love the freedoms we should have, and the principles this nation was founded on, do not. But, we will protect your rights along with ours. Remember all for one and one for all? That is our union of States.

Let us all work together to first, reinstate the Constitution as written, and then preserve it for all time.