Inalienable Gun Rights Are Not Extremist

Last week, Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed a secret about the Second Amendment: “The Second Amendment was not written to protect your right to shoot deer. It was written to protect your right to shoot tyrants if they take over the government.”

Why is it a 'secret'? It's a secret because 230 years ago, during a time when the Patriots and other colonists knew they would need weapons to fight the British, they knew they had right under the natural rights theory to own them, though the British government wanted to take them in order to keep the upper hand.

But since that period we have forgotten there might come a day when the federal powers to make us do whatever they wanted would be so great we would have to fight our own government. The NDAA which the President signed on New Year's Eve day, gives him the authority to use the military to arrest and detain indefinitely any American he chooses, for reasons he does not have to disclose.

On April 19, 1775, after British General Thomas Gage sent 700 trained troops to Concord, Massachusetts, the shot heard round the world began a war. The British had come for the guns of Americans. "Their own government had come to disarm them." [1] Arizona, Tennessee, Washington, Virginia, and six local governments including one in my home state of Michigan, have either nullified the NDAA, or are debating doing so. Several sheriffs and other law enforcement officials have stated they will not enforce the NDAA. In some places states have made it illegal for state authorities to enforce the NDAA and certain provisions of ICE rules. [2]

About Napolitano's comments, "Charles Blow wrote in The New York Times, 'These extremists make sensible, reasonable gun control hard to discuss, let alone achieve in this country, because they skew the conversations away from common-sense solutions on which both rational gun owners and non-gun owners can agree.' "

So those who defend the natural right of property ownership against a government that would abrogate those natural rights are the "extremists"; those who see the Second Amendment as something added to the Constitution, rather than as something which reinforces it as an "inalienable", right are common-sensical. 

Why is it a violation of the right-to-safety of other people to have a populace who is armed and has violated no laws? Is it because someone could steal his mother's guns and shoot 20 children and 6 adults?

If that is the reason, then who is to prevent President Obama or another President from sending another "General Thomas Gage" to some part of the U.S. to disarm people it knows will fight the tyranny of a government that does not act Constitutionally, but rather acts like a utilitarian extremist?
[1] http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/silveira119lw.html 
[2] http://www.naturalindependent.com/archives/7123/virginia-nullifies-ndaa-the-tenthers/

© Curtis Edward Clark 2012