President Obama has been working with other world leaders to keep nuclear weapons only in the hands of a limited number of governments throughout the world in a misguided attempt to protect us from terrorists and rogue states.  This little story has been ignored by the main stream media, which comes as no surprise to me.  However, I am shocked and appalled that conservative sources have also ignored this affront to civil liberties because it is not a threat to our current freedoms as much as our future freedoms.

The second amendment of our beloved Constitution clearly says that we have the right to bear arms.  Due to current technology, this right to bear arms is often limited to the right to bear guns.  This is not what our founding fathers had intended.   Anybody like myself who has hoped to one day have a small suitcase nuke as the ultimate deterrent to criminals should be likewise outraged by the attempt to withhold nuclear armaments from law abiding citizens.   Mark my words, 20 years from today if you make nuclear weapons illegal, then only the criminals will have them.

I know what some of you are thinking.  Why should an individual have the right to have a nuclear weapon capable of destroying a city?  They shouldn’t.   However, a miniature nuclear device that would be portable, easy to use, and destroy at most a couple of city blocks should be available for the defense of law abiding citizens.  One of the great things about out founding fathers is that they did not allow the limits of 18th century technology to limit freedoms.   If we allow Obama’s shortsighted policies to strip us of our future freedoms when nukes become smaller and more tactical, then we will be the ones who suffer for it.  If we allow governments to keep a monopoly on nuclear weapons, then we are forever going to be enslaved by those same nuclear weapons.

I was disheartened to hear that Colorado State University has announced plans to outlaw concealed carry on their campus.   I believe that the blame for this boneheaded decision can clearly be put on nerds.   When our founding fathers added the second amendment to the Constitution they clearly meant concealed weapons as well.  Some of our nation’s universities had been around for over 100 years.   Concealed carry became an instant college fad  although at that time, it usually meant carrying a small tree with you and hiding the gun among its branches or a blunderbuss which could be concealed by a large top hat.

Since then, college has been a time in people’s lives when they learn how to drink and shoot responsibly.   I still remember those days as a freshman at college, drinking cheap beer in the park at 2AM and shooting at road signs as we drove home.  I’m still surprised we made it home alive sometimes, but we all learned from the experience and we grew as people for it.   Card games were always time for firearm hi-jinks.   Inevitably one of us would pull out his gun and accuse one of the other players of cheating.   Tailgating before football games was always announced by firing a couple of warning shots in the air.   Even my college professors used to grade on a nicer curve when they didn’t know who was packing.  I didn’t have a lot of money back then, but I loved my snub-nosed .38 like my best girl.

CSU-Fort Collins Police Chief Wendy Rich-Goldsmith a relative newcomer to the campus, supports the ban, but she is a woman.   Fortunately, a hero has stepped forward to save social life on college campus. Larimer County  Sheriff James Alderden, outraged by the ban, said  he will undermine it in the interest of student safety. “I have told the CSU police chief I will not support this in any way,” Sheriff Alderden explained “If anyone with one of my permits gets arrested for concealed carry at CSU, I will refuse to book that person into my jail. Furthermore, I will show up at court and testify on that person’s behalf, and I will do whatever I can to discourage a conviction. I will not be a party to this very poor decision.”

There has been a lot of talk lately about the number of people at presidential town halls who have been armed.   I believe that this is a direct result of Presidential cowardice to face his critics when they are armed.   The second amendment grants us all the right to bear arms and the President should not be able to infringe on this.   The vast majority of gun owners are law abiding citizens and it’s only the John Hinkleys, Lee Harvey Oswalds, John Wilkes Booths, and Charles Guiteaus that give gun owners a bad name.   Let’s not paint all gun owners with a broad brush simply because of James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Giuseppe Zangara, and Leon Czolgosz.   Gunmen like this were not playing with a full deck.  It’s not like in today’s day and age you have crazy people walking into town halls.

While many of our Presidents have been shot at, only 9 of our Presidents have actually been hit.  That’s barely one every 5 administrations.  The only thing I’d be worried about is that al-qaeda or Hamas militants could also enter town halls armed to the teeth.  However, if outlawing guns for them means outlawing guns for the rest of us then I support their rights.  I’d like to see if we could do something if we see somebody who is obviously supporting jihad.  Perhaps, we could outlaw people wearing green and black and people of middle eastern ancestry from being at town halls.   I have nothing against middle easterners, it just seems like it could be tempting fate.

The country should not let Obama’s personal cowardice prevent us from celebrating our second amendment rights by carrying our guns to town hall meetings.   For one thing, you never know how close you’re going to be allowed to get, and a telescopic scope gives you a decent view of the stage in these enormous meetings.   The right to bear arms is sacred to Americans.   You know who else tried to outlaw them?  Hitler.