Our Constitution is Gun Control On Government
George Reisman: Gun Control — on the Government’s Guns
Literally everything the government does is ultimately a threat to point a gun at someone and use it if necessary. If this were not the case, the law, regulation, ruling, or whatever, would be without force or effect. People would be free to ignore it if they wished. Because of the government’s implicit threat to use deadly force to uphold its decisions, any meaningful program of gun control must above all focus on strictly controlling and regulating the activities of the government. (emphasis in the original)
Summer’s End. Lexington Green, 11 September 2002. Photo taken in Minute Man National Historical Park. Sculpture : “Minuteman” by sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson (1863-1947), dedicated April 19, 1900. Erected 1899 : SIRIS (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I think Reisman makes a very good point here, one that we tend to forget. George Washington said it well: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is both a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
The Constitution is designed to control government, and its guns.
Reisman adds:
The threat of deadly force is implicitly present in every law, regulation, ruling, or decree that emanates from any government office, at any level. The threat of such force is what compels obedience on the part of the citizens.
Even such an innocuous offense as a parking violation is capable of resulting in death if a person persists in not paying the fine imposed and, when ultimately confronted with arrest, resists by physically defending himself.
He’s very good at explaining what the Constitution really does: it controls the government’s guns:
Our entire Constitution and Bill of Rights are essential measures of gun control — this time, gun control directed against the government.
For example, the First Amendment prohibits the government from using its guns to abridge the freedoms of speech or press.
The Second Amendment prohibits the government from using its guns to abridge the freedom of the citizen to keep and bear arms.
Indirectly, the Second Amendment also operates to limit the government’s use of its guns to abridge freedom in general. This is because, in our system of checks and balances, an armed citizenry constitutes a check on the possibility of the government becoming tyrannical and attempting to use its power to threaten the citizens’ lives and property. It should be understood as protecting a balance between the power remaining in the hands of the people and the power they have delegated to their government.
Indeed, the language of the Second Amendment — “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — should be understood in this way.
Thanks for the reminder.
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