Free Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns by Glenn Beck Page A

Quarter has been attacked,” Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson said. “We’re using exhausted, scarce police to control looting when they should be used for search and rescue while we still have people on rooftops.”
    If you’re caught in the middle of that, what do you do—just dead-bolt your door and hope for the best? Maybe pull out that antique six-shooter against a violent gang of looters?
    In the New York City area, Hurricane Sandy proved to many who had previously scoffed at the so-called survivalists just howfast civilization and the rule of law can break down. After just a few days of no electricity, gas lines began to stretch for miles. In New Jersey, state troopers were deployed to all stations along the major interstates to calm nerves. In New York Citya man had a gun stuck in his face at a Queens gas station after complaining that another customer had cut him off in line. A Lowe’s store manager in New York said, “You see the worst in people at a time like this. We’re trying to be there for them, but they get angry when they can’t get batteries or flashlights.”
    That was less than a week without electricity—what happens in a real, long-term disaster? What happens when food supply lines get cut off, or an epic storm cuts a large swath of people off from the outside world? Would you rather be hunkereddown with a handgun holding a maximum of seven rounds (which is now the limit in New York), or an AR-15 with a magazine large enough to ensure that your entire family is protected?
    I could go on—but here’s the thing: I don’t have to. As of now this is still a free country and I have a right to defend myself and my family as I see fit. I do not need to come up with a list of justifications to make New York media elitists like Piers Morgan, Rachel Maddow, and Jon Stewart happy.
    All I need is the Second Amendment—just the way it is.
I’M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THE SECOND AMENDMENT UP AGAIN. YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IT’S PRETTY OUTDATED.
    “I don’t think the Founding Fathers had the idea that every man, woman, and childcould carry an assault weapon.”
    —MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG , December 16, 2012
    “When they passed the 2nd Amendment, they had muskets. It took 20 minutes to load one, and half the time, you missed, OK?The 2nd Amendment didn’t take into account assault weapons . . . . ”
    —DEEPAK CHOPRA , December 21, 2012
    “[T]hey always hide behind the Second Amendment. They’re fabulous at doing that. Butthe Second Amendment does not give you the right to bear any kind of arm. And technology has changed. And, of course, the design has changed. The proficiency of the manufacturing has changed.”
    —ED SCHULTZ , December 19, 2012
    This is a pretty popular argument that’s made all the time by those who really want to click their heels together three times and pretend that the Founders were imbeciles who had no clue that technology would ever advance. Fortunately, it’s also an argument that’s been roundly rejected by a little group called the United States Supreme Court.
    In the landmark 2008 ruling District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court observed:
    Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding. (emphasis added)
    That is such a clear and resounding quote that it’s probably counterproductive to even attempt to add to it, but there are a few other things that the mayor, Deepak, and Ed would be wise to