“We have tried an experiment for the last 250 years and it’s failed miserably and we have to start a new approach. The new approach has to be guns should not be available to people generally, except if they have a significant need.
“If I could write the Bill of Rights over again, I would skip amendment number two. We’re the only country in the world that puts in our Constitution the right to bear arms. It’s an absurd thing to be in our Constitution, but it’s in our Constitution. We have to live with it.”
Dershowitz misses the point entirely. The “experiment” that he claims to have “failed miserably” created one of the longest lasting governments currently on the face of the Earth. The “absurd thing” – the constitutional protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) – is very likely the single feature of our Constitution that has let us avoid military coups, dictatorships and other oppressive forms of government, unlike most every other country in existence today.
As “gun control” becomes more restrictive, the USA devolves to the point where oppression becomes more possible and thus more likely.
Dershowitz has no sense of history, ignoring the hundreds of millions of people killed by their own governments just in the 20th century, with the victims barred the right to own arms beforehand in every case.
Throughout the world, all the victims of criminals, terrorists, homicidal serial killers and all the others from which “gun control” is supposed to protect us (and from which Dershowitz ostensibly wants to protect us) can’t begin to compare to the orders of magnitude greater numbers killed by their own governments.
Dershowitz feels that The People cannot be trusted with guns. The numbers, however, demonstrate that government cannot be trusted to wield sole power. It’s all right there in the history books, Alan.
“Political power grows from the barrel of a gun.”
“Power to the people.”
Apparently, Dershowitz does not believe in a government of the people, by the people and for the people, otherwise why would he want people powerless before government?