Laws aren't the way to stopping violence

“Wherever .... the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” (St. George Tucker, a leader of 1786 Annapolis Convention, justice on Virginia Supreme Court and federal judge under Madison)

Our rights to life, liberty and property are of little value without the means to preserve them. That is why the founders gave us the Constitution. They drew heavily from the works of William Blackstone, the author of “Blackstones Commentaries on the Laws”. Blackstone wrote, “(T)o vindicate these rights when actually violated or attacked, the (citizens) are entitled, the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the (government) for redress of grievances; and lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense.”

The inalienable right to keep and bear arms was not given to us in the Constitution, it was merely listed as a right that we already had.

Gun control is not the answer to curb violence, because such crimes begin in the heart. And no human law can stop that, only God’s law can. “(To) promote true religion is the best and most effectual way of making a virtuous and regular people. Love to God and love to man is the substance of religion; when these prevail, civil laws will have little to do.” (John Witherspoon, signer of Declaration of Independence)

BRADY SMITH

Sagle