2nd Amendment for Dummies

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”  Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788

Why is the Second Amendment important? Because it guarantees all the others.

Read KrisAnne Hall's blog about the Second Amendment.

Why must gunowners stand firm and refuse encroachment? Because one little step leads to the next.

Take Illinois, for example. We have registration of gun owners, but not of guns. Suppose Gov. Quinn decided to confiscate all the guns in the State of Illinois and issued a proclamation that all police and military personnel should proceed to knock on doors and collect all the guns in the State owned by citizens.

Which doors do you think they will knock on (or knock down) first? Will they suit up and head for the War Zone in Chicago? Maybe down to 79th St. or 87th or 95th Street on both sides of the Dan Ryan? Think they'll raid houses there? Collect all the guns from the criminals?

No way. The criminals don't have FOID cards.

The idiots want to call a semi-automatic weapon an "assault" weapon. They mis-name it. So they  "declare" it so and call it "illegal". Maybe next, they'll say that driving a car stick-shift transmission is dangerous and therefore illegal. You have to drive a car with an automatic transmission. Or vice versa.

Wasn't there a Japanese commander who wisely recommended that they avoid attacking U.S. mainland? "They all have guns." Right. He understood. And we are going to keep our guns. In case we must defend the U.S. against all invaders, foreign or domestic.

Would our city officials in Woodstock, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Huntley stand and say, "No way!"

Would they pledge, now, never to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens?