The Red Dawn Myth part 1

 

 

 

Recently I have been seeing a disturbing pattern of using the Genocide of the Native American Indians as a reason for Law abiding Citizens to Have guns . On the surface this seems a lot like Using the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima as a Public Relations campaign to gain the Nobel Peace prize .

After the responsible adult person in me stops laughing at the cynical and yet strangely humorous argument , another part of the responsible adult in me is seething . How can such a short argument complete with visual ...be so wrong on so many different levels that it almost overwhelms the intelligent person into believing it ? This whole campaign of using the Genocide of the American Indian as a pretext for arguing against responsible gun control is cynical and reprehensible . The only glimmer of good that can come from it would be perhaps the tacit confession that our Native American Policy was flawed in the first place .

I Guess the basic reason why this is popular is because some people want to believe it and they also failed American History .

Lets take a look at the whole Idea here :

First of all the implication is if the Indians had of been able to keep their weapons they would not have been destroyed by the American Government . Is this even close to being Historically accurate . In a word no. The Native Americans were defeated because they were not aligned as a homogeneous group . Essentially the Native Americans operated as independent Militia groups dispersed through out the USA . Often even fighting amount themselves for competing interests and objectives ,You might say reminiscent of the Civil War . ( remember that we will come back to it )

The other implication is the US Government is trying to take weapons away from Citizens and well they are not . Responsible lawmakers and Citizens Are urging for some control over the purchase and ownership of Guns , and are also questioning the use of Automatic Weapons .

The whole argument becomes a Straw man Argument ....It begins with " If the Government takes away our guns we cannot have a citizen army to defeat the government " IT falls apart when you realize that in none of the recommendations to curb Gun violence is the Government planning to take Guns away .

At stake are the lives of thousands of American Citizens opposing potentially Millions of dollars in Profit for the Gun and Ammunition Companies .

So now the Gun Lobby is suggesting the real purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to provide for a Citizen Army to rally to the defence of the country if the Government went bad . This is a real Air Ball ...Does the constitution make any provision for such a citizen revolt ? what conditions does it set forth for such a decision ?

The Gun Lobby would have us belive that American citizens have the right to engage in violence against the United States' armed forces and state or municipal police forces, whenever they decide that governments are usurping their powers. By Pushing this agenda the Gun Lobby is suggesting that Americans have a right a right to insurrection. There is no such right in the American constitutional order. It is illegal for American citizens to decide on their own to attack law-enforcement agents or soldiers, regardless of whether they believe them to be acting on behalf of the "arbitrary power of rulers". Here is the deal In America, the government is chosen at the ballot box, and our representatives make the laws and execute them. For the Gun Lobby to imply that instead of this Choice we have as an option insurrection is ..well how do you sugar coat treason ?

So lets recap up to this point :

1: The Government of the USA is not taking away your guns .

2: The Native Americans were not defeated because we took away their weapons . They were defeated because we devalued them , and picked them off tribe by tribe .

3. The Purpose of the 2nd Amendment was not to create a Citizen Army to protect citizens from its own Government .

4. Our Government is changed the same way it has been for over 200 years by well informed people voting for representatives of the people who make laws and execute them

TO be fair I really don't want to be in this argument ..I am a Christian and as a Christian I believe the bible suggests an entirely different world view than the one promoted by the world when it it comes to guns , wars and self defence . But the issue for me is the Christians who are weighing in on the gun discussion don't want to include the Bible as a foundation for their arguments ..and instead have opted for the Constitution of the USA for their foundation . When it comes to guns apparently the Constitution Trumps the Bible .

Next : The Red Dawn Myth