It’s the quote about how Obama “respects” the rights of hunters that jumps out at me, as if the 2nd Amendment was about hunters’ rights or even the rights of people to protect themselves from crime, it isn’t, it’s about the Constitution stating explicitly that free born citizens have the right to shoot government officials who seriously abuse their powers, it’s not about hunting, not about sports, not about crime, it’s about defending a free people from their government if the need arises.
Odd how the President elect isn’t aware of that fact seeing as how he’s a fancy lawyer and all. I suspect some government agents may soon discover to their cost what the Second Amendment is really about in the coming years and it ain’t about hunting.
I’m not disputing this claim. I think it a reasonable idea. I just don’t remember it actually stating that I can go shoot an official for trying to deny my gun rights?
Consider what such liberal heroes as JFK and Hubert Humphrey had to say about the matter:
Hubert Humphrey:
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
John F. Kennedy:
“By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fear of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the 2nd amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important.”