Responsibility to bear arms

Editor

Not only a right, but a responsibility to bear arms. A group has formed in a Southern Wyoming Town dedicated to the study of the Founders’ Bible. Their study of this foundational text revealed interesting material regarding the second amendment controversies. William Blackstone, an eminent English jurist and philosophical scholar, has been identified as one the most significant contributors to the thinking that constructed the Constitution of the United States. He declared the right to bear arms flowed from the natural right of resistance and self-preservation. Suicide was viewed as a sin and the “failure to defend oneself against unlawful aggression amounted to suicide by inaction.” Further, if a person’s life is a gift from The Creator and he cannot destroy it by action; he cannot destroy it by inaction or negligence.” Any infringement on these natural rights would, by its very definition, be an infringement on God’s provisions for our life.

Barry R. Cole

Encampment, Wyoming