National Security

The second amendment to the constitution of the United States declares that having people with guns in their hands is "necessary to the security of a free State" The only real debate in our day and time is over who gets to have the guns and who is deprived of those guns. Does only the American government and their designated officials get to have guns or do all Americans, civilian or otherwise get to have guns?

Speaking from a military perspective, the most difficult thing in the world to do is to try to capture a city where there is someone with a gun in every structure. This style of warfare can be called "attrition". The campaign is very costly in all resources (time, food, fuel, ammunition, soldier's lives) and is avoided at all costs by those who wage war. After all, the object of war is to gain more resources than you lose, not to break even.

In war, just like business, for it to be sucessful, it must also be profitable. The point here is that a city can deter an invasion by simply having it's citizen population armed. A disarmed population is the first morsel of temptation necessary to get an aggressor nation calculating it's ability to take over the weaker, unarmed country. This deterrent to capture saves the lives of every citizen in the country. Some may think "We live in a modern society, the capturing of countries doesn't take place any more. That's just in the history books".

Well, wake up! The ever downsizing U.S. military does not have the ability to protect every square mile of the United States at the same time from invasion. It is absolutely required that the citizens of a country be armed so as to preserve the security of each state and thereby, insure domestic tranquility.

Keep in mind this one little point. Only recently (since 2001) has the United States begun to express an interest in screening all incoming cargo shipments into the US. The big push is to gain the ability to detect weaponized, or soon to be weponized nuclear materials. As of right now, the US does not have the ability to detect large scale shipments of small arms (that is military speak for machine guns) that are shipped into the country through regular shipping ports. Furthermore, they do not have any way to learn how many AK-47s have been shipped into the country since 1945 and are currently being stored by radical sleeper cells within the US who are just waiting for the call to spring into action.

The popular phrase today is that asault weapons belong on forign battlefields and not on American soil. Well guess what... if your local lawmakers deprive the good citizens of the US the ability to own an assualt rifle today, such an action would only weaken the country and make it easier for imbedded terrorists in the future to activate sleeper cells in the US (who have already got all the machine guns they need) to launch a strike of some sort without fear of the local citizens offering up any resistance. If anyone ever asks you, why do you need a machine gun? And you feel like answering such a stupid question... You might just say that the United States needs me to have a machine gun.