Let me preface this with an apology for perusing on a liberal trash heap blog (Huffington Post). But every once and a while you need a brief glimpse into the dysfunctional minds of the people who are behind Obama’s fundamental transformation of America.
Today, I stumbled upon an “article” that attempted to argue that defending oneself (with a gun) contradicts justice.
Feel free to read the entire article—it’s quite short. But here are a few of the author’s pseudo-intellectual gems:
(TRIGGER WARNING!!)
“using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights.”
“A gun for civilians is a weapon for a revolution and not for ordinary use. The belief that a gun is a useful tool to protect one is counterintuitive because guns get into the hands of people who use them for horrible reasons.”
If you take some of the article’s arguments to their logical conclusions, you are left with a society of helpless victims.
Consider the statement,
“The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial.”
Evidently, the author does not concern himself with the reality that “self-defense” implies an attack, and criminals don’t regard “justice.”
Only a liberal could ignore the fact that a “criminal” has abandoned his right to due process when he chooses to attack a fellow citizen, and that law-abiding citizens would be the only victims of his imagined utopia.
The scariest part of this article is the title, “A Revision on the Bill of Rights, Part III”—I wonder what other liberal tweaks he has in mind?