Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 12, 2010

Gregory D. Girard of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, believes that martial law ? including paramilitary raids by police to confiscate legally owned private firearms ? will soon descend upon us.

Since it?s apparently impermissible to believe such things in our splendidly free country, a paramilitary raid was conducted against Girard?s home to confiscate his legally owned private firearms.

Girard himself was arrested on charges unrelated to gun ownership. Police and prosecutors offered vague but insistent insinuations that Girard?s beliefs are the product of mental illness.

Whatever we may learn about Girard?s personal issues, this act of pre-emptive civilian disarmament was not the first of its kind and most likely won?t be the last. A decade ago, Connecticut enacted a measure empowering police to confiscate legally obtained firearms from anybody deemed to be ?dangerous,? whether or not a crime had been committed.

The police official who supervised the raid against Girard insisted that the community was now ?safer? because of it. Law-abiding gun owners who understand the lethal dangers of civilian disarmament know better.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.