Here’s How The Second Amendment Has Prevented Tyranny Lately - Wonkette

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(cross-posted from GD)

So, how has the Second Amendment been protecting all the others lately? In addition to stories we’ve already reported this month, like the responsible gun owner who murdered his two preschoolers or the Oklahoma gentleman who fired a gun into his own arm while protecting a “Muslim-free” gun shop from terrorists, we found a few other examples, all within the past month:

- In Hoover, Alabama, 31-year-old Divine Chambliss was taking a nap on Aug. 18 when his 2-year-old son found a hidden gun and pulled the trigger, killing his father. The little boy told his mother, “I hurt my dad.” The family has not said whether it is comforted by the possibility that, had the federal government attempted to usurp the individual liberties enshrined in the Constitution at some time before he was killed by his own toddler, Mr. Chambliss could have used the handgun to remain free.

- In Washington DC, 3-year-old Dalis Cox was shot to death by her 7-year-old brother on July 29, with an unregistered handgun that the boy had somehow gotten his hands on. It is believed that, under different circumstances, the gun used in this shooting could have been used to prevent the Obama administration from declaring martial law and canceling elections forever.

- A 21-month-old boy in Hanley Hills, Missouri, was pronounced dead Tuesday after he shot himself in the stomach with a handgun that he found in his home. An arrest has been made in the case, although the identity of the person arrested has not yet been released. Yr Wonkette feels obliged to point out that an armed populace is the only thing that keeps us free to report this unfortunate event.

- On Aug. 8, a Houston man broke into his ex’s home, then shot the woman, her husband, and six children to death, including his own son. Before their relationship went bad, the victim had at some point in the past called the man the “best father in the whole world,” at least until they broke up and she changed her locks in fear of him. While it’s true that he murdered eight people with his gun, we feel compelled to note that the only thing preventing Congress from revoking all of our rights is the fear of an armed populace, so it all balances out. Just think how many kids might be killed in the imposition of a tyrannical government.

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1. the purpose of guns is to kill people. missions accomplished nt

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Wonkette rules! This is a GREAT piece. Thanks for posting! n/t

[jimmy the one]

3. the best one, so to speak

And finally, some almost good news: A Miami 3-year-old who, on Aug. 5, grabbed a gun while rummaging around in a dresser drawer and shot himself in the head is expected to make a full recovery.
His mother explained that she and the child’s father both kept firearms in their apartment for personal protection, and that the weapons were secured by being kept in dresser drawers where the child couldn’t possibly reach them, unless maybe he used a chair. Oh, he used a chair.
The NRA actually doesn’t give two shits about any of this, or about Americans preserving their liberty, because they are a lobby for the firearms industry.
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[jimmy the one]

4. the 19 year itch (per Jefferson)

A bit interesting, 3 quotes from Thomas Jefferson. After reading EM's wonkette link I was thinking he's contradicting himself, but I guess not; seems he's actually reinforcing his views, since 19 years probably does not mean 'frequent' to him:

From EM's 'wonkette' link, deflating the 2nd amendment today, note esp the first sentence: I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects.
But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." - Jefferson July 12, 1816[10]

What's perplexing a bit, is that Jefferson also wrote the followings, albeit 25 years earlier & pre-bor, when the constitution was a baby:
1789 Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only.--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789

Jefferson, 1816: Let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods. What these periods should be nature herself indicates. By the European tables of mortality, of the adults living at any one moment of time, a majority will be dead in about nineteen years. At the end of that period, then, a new majority is come into place; or, in other words, a new generation. Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before.
It has then, like them, a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness; consequently, to accommodate to the circumstances in which it finds itself that received from its predecessors; and it is for the peace and good of mankind that a solemn opportunity of doing this every nineteen or twenty years should be provided by the constitution, so that it may be handed on with periodical repairs from generation to generation to the end of time, if anything human can so long endure." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. http://student-of-life.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/21/5502595-thomas-jefferson-supported-rewriting-the-constitution-every-19-years-equated-not-doing-so-to-being-enslaved-to-the-prior-generation-what-do-you-think-about-that