The RKBA v Tyranny

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23. I always try to make sense and I sometimes succeed

The South sure as hell described the North as tyrannical. In fact Southern apologists still call it that today.

Tyranny: despotism, absolute power, autocracy, dictatorship, totalitarianism, Fascism. These words do NOT correctly describe the relationship between the federal government of the 1850s and '60s with the white Southern population. In fact, because a major Southern economy was agriculture. That economy thrived in part because of slavery. When the federal government and the Northern states worked to abolish slavery, many Southern states rebelled and attempted to secede from the Union. Had their cause been just rather than one of defending slavery and had they been unable to rebel and actual wage war then history would be looking on that time as one of tyranny.

These are the options:

When the people are armed, they can fight tyranny. The possible sequelae being victory and living in freedom or death defending what is right.

When the people are disarmed, they cannot fight tyranny. The options that follow are life with impaired to very little freedom or suicide.

In some cases Native Americans were armed and fought against their oppressors. The results of this were often small scale wars. We learn but slowly and at great cost. Through history the "animating contest for freedom", as Adams called it, has produced advances in civilization. We have governments that defend the rights of the individual.




Please read again the quote from Churchill.