Egypt should have its own second amendment

Every new emerging and re-emerging nation should have its own second amendment so that its streets are safer not only today, but from now on.

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Elements of the hour are young Egyptians contemplating the concept and language of their Constitution. As they do this, they may be approached by wiser and older persons who wish to be helpful. Some, perhaps unasked. They will have to hear the advice of elders who love freedom also and they will have to discern good advice from bad advice. In contemplating their law of the land which will be their Constitution, they will have to see themselves as the sovereign and the government their servants. Though their Constitution could be modeled after our own, it won’t be the first time. If they should navigate this, I hope they remember the words of Ben Franklin, one of our own elders who loved freedom, who pointed out that we have a republic, if we can hang on to it. Liberia is a nation whose constitution is modeled after our own. Liberia was formed by former American slaves who knew of freedom and built a nation which was not first an American Colony. Today, Liberia struggles with infighting to...well, to hang on to its republic. It isn’t easy to become free and it isn’t easy to remain free. Nations come and go when governments seem to come and go, and some people even have no country at all. What Egypt will need from their very first hours onward is the lethal force to back their sovereignty for every generation and to have such a force at their ready that any hostility against them - whether it be a forceful hostility or a peaceable political hostility – would be unthinkable on its face. What would be an example of unthinkable? Japan did not invade America’s mainland and struck Hawaii instead, because Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had been educated in America, admonished the Japanese. He said that invasion of the mainland would cost Japan too dearly, for. “..there is a rifle behind every blade of grass.” The Japanese did not invade the mainland of the United States because it was.. unthinkable. Hawaii was not. Other quotes to remember would be for law and order: “When seconds count, police are moments away.” Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." And Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson said, “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” George Washington said, "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and citizens firearms are indelibly related." All laws are backed by force. When the force is always in the hands of the citizens, the unthinkable remains un-thought of. It could be that Egypt could do just fine. If they remember to put in their own second amendment to their constitution. America wishes Egypt the best. The very best. Peaceful, faithful, and free.