President Bush vs. The UN Global Gun Grab

The right to life necessitates the right to self-defense.

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to
the security of a free state, the right of the people
to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

-- Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution

"[W]e conclude that the Second Amendment
secures an individual right to bear arms."

-- Memorandum opinion,
Bush Justice Department, 2003

by Rod D. Martin
May 18, 2006

What's the most fundamental of all human rights?

The right to life, of course.

Without it, all other rights are meaningless -- after all, if you're dead, you clearly can't exercise any of them.

Now, if it means anything at all, the right to life must confer the right to preserve one's own life. And if the right to self-preservation has meaning, it must include the right to procure the means with which to defend one's life and liberty.

All of which is to say, the right to life necessitates the right to self-defense, and thus gun ownership.

Liberals would have us believe this is some nutty notion of the "far right" -- meaning anyone more conservative tha…