Posted on 10/31/2015 7:15:07 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
You’ll Never Guess What Inspired the 2nd Amendment!!!
It is one of Americans’ fundamental rights – the right to “keep and bear arms.†It has kept America free from tyranny, both foreign and domestic for over two centuries.
The 2nd Amendment is under assault across the board today from liberals, socialists, Democrats, and the national media.
But, where did our Founding Fathers come up with the idea for the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights? The idea of average citizens being armed was foreign to European countries. So where did the concept come from?
William J. Federer has the surprising answers: This followed the example of the earliest known militia in history – Ancient Israel, where every man was armed and always ready to defend his community.
Denver University Law Review, July 15, 2013 published an article Ancient Hebrew Militia Law, by David B. Kopel, in which he wrote:
†New Englanders intensely self-identified with ancient Israel-from the first days of settlement in early 17th century (Israel in the wilderness) to the days of the American Revolution, when New England’s ‘black regiment’ of clergymen incited the Revolution as a religious duty,
and described the thirteen American colonies as the modern version of the twelve confederate tribes of Israel.
Thus, ancient Hebrew militia law is part of the intellectual background of the American militia system, and of the Second Amendment…
Every male ‘from the age of twenty years up, all those in Israel who are able to bear arms’…were obliged to fight, to go forth ‘armed to battle.’ Men who failed this duty ‘sinned against the Lord.’
Although God may work miracles…the righteous…may never force God’s hand by demanding a miracle-putting good people in danger and expecting God to protecting them…â€
Yep, that’s right! Our Founding Fathers looked to ancient Israel from the pages of the Old Testament in the Bible as their basis for developing the idea of local militias with everyone armed to defend and protect their families, homes, and communities.
Now, don’t expect to hear this from some liberal college History professor; or from the national media.
But, the more we dig into American History, the more examples we find that the Founding Fathers used principles from the nation of Israel – God’s chosen people – to build America upon.
The concepts of private property ownership, local representative government, universally applied laws of justice, and other guaranteed rights not given by government all come from the pages of the Old Testament and found their way into our founding documents.
William J. Federer provides more info:
David B. Kopel continued:
“Israel’s military system was ‘based on the duty of every able-bodied male to bear arms and serve.’
Israel relied on a militia, in which citizen soldiers would spend most of their time cultivating their farms, or engaged in other economic production, and would fight only for limited periods (ideally, after the harvest), and only when necessary.
Similarly, during the American Revolution, most men served in their state militias, rather than the Continental Army. Thus, they were most able to keep their farms in production, and other economic activity in progress.
This was an important reason why the United States was able to economically sustain a war that lasted eight years…â€
And it is not just modern historians who have this perspective. According to William J. Federer, there is ample evidence from the colonial period to prove these facts.
In September of 1774, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves.
British statesman Edmund Burke cited the Suffolk Resolves as a major development in colonial animosity, which eventually led to the Declaration of Independence.
The Suffolk Resolves stated:
“That it is an indispensable duty which we owe to God, our country, ourselves and posterity,
by all lawful ways and means in our power to maintain, defend and preserve those civil and religious rights and liberties, for which many of our fathers fought, bled and died,
and to hand them down entire to future generations…
and that the inhabitants of those towns and districts…do use their utmost diligence to acquaint themselves with the art of war as soon as possible, and do, for that purpose, appear under arms at least once every week.â€
Wow! When was the last time we read about that in public school history books?
William J. Federer adds more:
Massachusetts citizen soldiers drilled on the parade ground, many times led by a deacon or pastor, then went to church for exhortation and prayer.
The Provincial Congress issued a Resolution to Massachusetts Bay, 1774:
†Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…
Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.â€
Maybe this explains why President Obama and his gaggle of atheist socialists hate the 2nd Amendment – it comes from Israel and from God!
U.S. 2nd Amendment Not So Archaic As Hordes of Migrants Flood Europe, Wreak Havoc
Gee, and I thought the British banning production and owning firearms had something to do with it.
Wasn’t it de Toqueville who said a technical underpinning of American democratic republicans was the ability of citizens to make their own smoothbore muskets?
It was dimimished with rifling.
It returns with 3d printing.
Focus on producing your own ammo.
The first cars looked like horse drawn carriages.
A completely plastic gun including ammo will look completely different.
I’d like a lighter weapon.
As hordes of islamists flood Europe....
If I were German and I saw the politicians invite an army of aggressive, violent young mulsim men into my country (and why are they fleeing if they are agressive and violent by nature, hmmm?) and watched them take up a sustained campaign of raping our women while the pols called us racist for not looking the other way fast enough I think I'd explode.
A liberal on twitter informed me that it was because Cowboys and Gangsters were killing people and there were no laws but we don’t have cowboys and gangsters roaming the land anymore so we don’t need guns.
Yeah, I’m serious.
Keep in mind that the citizenry were armed with state of the art weapons. They were not limited a to how dangerous the weapons looked. The arms were intended for hunting, and for protection.
How long until the leftist progressives form brainwashing alliances with the hoodie/blm forces to disarm the populace?
The ultimate extension of #8 the Frankfurt School’s 11 point agenda.
“An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.”
Did Willi Munzenberg wish he had a gun when he was was hung on a tree in Vichy France by Stalin’s NKVD?
Islamist invaders.
...gangsters roaming the land anymore so we don’t need guns...
Our gangsters are the Government now days.
Well then that makes perfect sense for the radical left wing extremists to want to overturn it. ANY relation to ANYTHING having to do with Israel is to be condemned in their narrow view.
Our family has always made their own bullets. You melt
the metal (lead I guess it is), pour it in the bullet
mold, let it cool real good. - Somebody on FR was talking
about how they put some sort of powder on their bullets.
Now we have Muslims roaming the land, so it’s time to start playing Cowboys & Muslims.
Disarmed Germany contrasted with armed America, where there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. With blazing eyes behind them.
America, where nearly every “infidel” can carry a pistol in his pocket. How un-European of us!
Omar & Achmed should take warning and fear being turned into collanders if they attempt rape. This isn’t the UK.
King George III?
5.56mm
There is a reason no foreign enemy has tried a serious land-based attack on US soil since the War of 1812. Its because once they were to defeat the US armed forces then they must defeat a slightly larger citizsn-army of over 50 million armed men and women. No Army on Earth is up to that challenge.
I’m not so sure about the assertion, “The idea of average citizens being armed was foreign to European countries.”
I have read a Russian writing about how precious the 2nd Amendment is in light of the experience of the Bolsheviks disarming the populace describing how essentially everyone went about armed in old Russia, “When we were free under the Tsars,” as the writer put it. Ownership of weapons seems also to have been quite widespread and not limited to the nobility in Great Britain.
King Phillip’s braves are no more, but in King Philip’s War, (1675-1676), one fourth of the white people of New England were killed, and almost all the Indians driven from New England. This was followed by Queen Ann’s War (1704) and the Deerfield Raid. It would be a long time before New Englanders would willing give up their guns. Vermont (!) still has some of the least restrictive gun laws in the country.
[New Englanders intensely self-identified with ancient Israel-from the first days of settlement in early 17th century (Israel in the wilderness) to the days of the American Revolution, when New England’s “black regiment” of clergymen incited the Revolution as a religious duty,]
If anyone is looking for a good program, Pastor and Oklahoma State Representative DAN FISHER’S presentation of “Bringing Back the Black Robed Regiment” brings the Revolutionary War to life! Fisher also displays his personal Revolutionary War Collection.
http://www.theresonancemovement.com/
I loved the episode of AMC’s “Turn” where the British commander leading the occupation of Setauwket ordered all the guns to be turned in for public safety.
In the background a gallows was being erected.
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