August 5, 2014 | 0 Comments

Gun Control Activists Are Trying to Disarm the American Public of Knowledge and Guns.

Chad Kent is an author and speaker with a unique style that makes the Constitution simple and fun. Listen to Chad every Saturday during The Chris Salcedo Show on TheBlaze Radio and visit his web site.

“It’s no secret that there is an aggressive, never-ending effort in this country to destroy the Second Amendment.

Gun control activists know that they will never be able to reach their goals as long as the Second Amendment stands intact. But they also know that they don’t have a prayer of getting the level of support they need to repeal the Second Amendment.

Because of that, one of their favorite strategies for destroying your God-given right to self-defense is to convince the American people that the Second Amendment doesn’t mean what it very clearly says.

Instead, gun control activists will insist that the Founders never intended to protect the right for you or me to own a gun. Oh no! They will tell you that the Second Amendment only means that people who are in a militia are allowed to have guns.

You can find this argument all over the place now.

You’ll have no problem finding it in the Supreme Court. For example, in his dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), Justice Breyer claimed that:

“[T]he Second Amendment protects militia-related, not self-defense-related, interests.”

You can even find it in the textbooks in our public schools. One popular textbook even teaches our children that:

“The Second and Third Amendments – grant citizens the right to bear arms as members of a militia of citizen-soldiers and prevent the government from housing troops in private homes in peacetime.”

Unfortunately, this strategy of destroying the Second Amendment by creatively reinterpreting it has been incredibly effective.

In the Heller case I just mentioned, the Supreme Court decided on a narrow 5-4 vote that Washington, D.C. doesn’t have the authority to ban handguns. In other words, we were one justice away from the Second Amendment being effectively destroyed.”