Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

January 23, 2008

The Anti-Defamation League has filed a friend of the court brief in the Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller. That case deals with a Washington, DC police officer who is permitted to carry a gun at work, but forbidden to own one for self-defense as a private citizen.

The ADL contends that the true purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the power of states to disarm their citizenry, on the assumption that the government must have a monopoly on the use of force. This is an Orwellian inversion of the language and clear meaning of the Second Amendment.

Further, the ADL brief claims that ?the rebellion of a people against a government established by themselves is not justifiable, even in an extreme case.? This would mean, apparently, that the ADL would have agreed with the Nazi Regime's gun control policies, which were designed to disarm the people in order to prevent just such a rebellion.

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