Why I Need a "Weapon of War"

“I just don’t think we need to sell any more weapons of war into this public.” -Beto O’Rourke

Well, Mr. O’Rourke, apart from disagreeing with your definition of “weapons of war”, I can tell you exactly why the public needs them. We need them to keep you in check. To stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. Without these “weapons of war”, the only thing keeping our rights in order is a bunch of words that your political party thinks are worth little more than the old piece of paper on which they’re written. But, the men who wrote them saw this coming, and they armed us for just such an eventuality.

After two long years of warfare against a near gargantuan enemy and impossible odds, the founders of the United States understood what it meant to fight a government that had gone mad with power. So, to try and prevent their newborn country from having to go through that again, they devised a system where each branch of government had a way to keep the others in check. For example:

-The Executive Branch can veto laws passed by Congress

-Congress can impeach a sitting President

-The Judicial Brach can declare passed laws unconstitutional

One such government check that is rarely mentioned, however, is the Second Amendment. You see, if one day the government forgets its charter of being “by the people and for the people”, and begins a march on our rights, we have the ability to defend ourselves.

We need these “weapons of war” because the founders knew all too well that a day may come in which the people need to declare war against their own government.

So when opportunistic politicians tell me that the public has no need for weapons of war, I tend to get a little nervous. When Beto O’Rourke says “Hell yes we’re coming for your AR-15’s”, he’d better be prepared for the war he’s calling down.

When King Leonidas led the Spartans against the Persian army in the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes told the Greeks to surrender their weapons and submit to Persian rule. The Spartan King defiantly replied, “Molon Labe,” which is Greek for “come and take them.” Or, as another badass once said, “From my cold, dead hands."

All I can say is that if the government truly tries to disarm us, they're going to meet a few harsh realities, and they will start a new civil war. If they come for our guns, we'll come for them. And Hell's coming with us.