Just post the entire article because nobody likes a blog pimp.
I agree and will add the full intent was to ensure PARITY. What do I mean? Musket to the gov’t, musket to the people. Do you think there is parity today? No...there is not. We are already losing the battle, and have already lost the parity intended by the amendment. That’s why Dems want...ban on auto (already got that), ban on semi-auto (had it, now trying again). They will keep working us back to single shot muzzle loaders if they can because we will lose parity. We have already lost our ability to fully defend ourselves from the gov’t and they will keep trying until we have nothing but sling shots.
Actually, it not what the 2nd Amendment actually says, or what it is intended to do, it’s what the Marxists can convince the unknowing and uneducated tools that is says or stands for;
They know the truth, but they can’t let their sheep know too, it would undermine them.
If this is from a blog, you really should the post entire article. That’s especially true if it’s from your own blog.
Just sayin’.
People need to stop and think about why the bill of rights were written. They were intended to restrain government power over people. It was meant to stop tyranny.
The spirit of the 2nd amendment was very specific. If you let the government disarm the people, you’ve got a huge problem. This is because the first thing that a tyrannical power wants to do is to subdue a rebellion before it starts.
ARMS
So much focus now is on firearms, but arms generally means weapons.
Defense.
Self Defense
The founders did not want a populace that could not defend itself. Plain and simple
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Monday, February 19,
I have had it with the IDIOCY!!!
How many people in this country have ACTUALLY read and UNDERSTAND the purpose of our 2nd Amendment???
Try reading the whole thing and understand why it was written. It is ONE sentence but Critically IMPORTANT to our liberty! It wasn't written so we can hunt!!!
It was written to preserve our right to form a MILITIA to fight back against a tyrannical government.
I know it's not a likely scenario, but it is essential element of our freedom and liberty and the founding fathers knew it was critical to keep government in check.
It may not be needed today, tomorrow, next week, next year or in the next 100 years.
But some day, it will be needed and we will thank GOD that it is there and we have preserved our rights to defend ourselves, form our own militia/military and preserve our freedoms.
Benjamin Franklin said "we now have a Republic, if we can KEEP it!"
Don't be so quick to give our rights away!! Once you forfeit your rights to the government, what are the odds you will EVER get them back?? Let me help you with that -->> ZERO!!!
There are numerous reasons why these shootings happened and we should address the core issues they happened (respect for life, over-medicating our youth, soft/gun-free targets, toxic, hateful media, and much more...).
Let's address these REAL reasons rather than blaming the instrument used to kill and the pathetic, expected, uninformed knee-jerk reaction to HAND over our rights to the government just so people can feel noble and woke at their work places and coffee shops...
And all I hear is BAN this, RESTRICT that by people who have NEVER read and are so uninformed of the reasons why we have the 2nd amendment.
Don't be one of those people!
Just my Thoughts.
GOP Mike
“I know it’s not a likely scenario”
Not now but maybe later.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”
The Second Amendment SPECIFICALLY recognizes the RIGHT of THE PEOPLE (INDIVIDUALS) to KEEP and BEAR shoulder arms and side arms of MILITARY UTILITY.
That would include burst-fire tactical rifles, sub-machine gins, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, shoulder fired missles and anti-tank weapons, and THE AMMUNITION for them!
...and we came damned close to activating it during the Obama “administration.” Look at gun sales for proof.
And the leftist idiots will say “okay, you can have your muskets and swords”
It is not idiocy.
Both the communists and the New World Order need to disarm the American public in order to control us. They still remember the Japanese Emperor saying that if they invaded the USA, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
The communists filled the schools, took over the media, and have been brainwashing the mush-brained masses for since the 1960s to hate guns and want them banned.
It is not idiocy at all. It is a genuine conspiracy of the communists and New World Order convincing their brain dead minions in America to do their bidding.
And they will never stop calling for a ban on guns until they get it.
I have not doubt in my mind — and I mean NONE — that some generation in the future will be so brainwashed, that they will allow the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution to be made invalid. I mean legally, with a vote of states or some such thing. At some point the American masses will be so dependent on government, and so brainwashed, they will demand a ban on guns.
I don’t know when, but I guarantee you this will happen. And then America will be done. Totalitarian government will immediately follow. I hope this doesn’t happen for another 100 years, but I don’t know. We are getting closer with every subsequent generation of school brainwashing.
Nobody hunts anymore. I pray I am wrong. There are all kinds of new gun owners presently, but they all seem to be older generations, not the young.
“I know it’s not a likely scenario”
I beg to differ. Put Hillary in power and it IS a likely scenario!
It is an unlikely event as long as the 2A stays the way it is.
you are correct.... the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting or in home defence... it was written to allow a nation to rise up against a government gone rogue..... with that in mind, any weapon that the military possesses we not only have a right but a duty to possess... that includes machine guns, automatic weapons, grenades, tanks, mortars and even aircraft and warships (if we can afford them).... it is an interesting piece of history that during the revolution our fledgling nation leased cannon and warships from private owners.....
Without the 2nd Amendment, it becomes a very likely scenario.
“It was written to preserve our right to form a MILITIA to fight back against a tyrannical government.”
That’s enough, but it was actually created to do more than that.
1) The maintenance of standing armies to control civilian populations in peacetime was a cause of the Revolution. The 2nd A was designed to remove the excuse for US government to follow in Britain’s footsteps in maintaining standing armies. This cuts off the tyranny pipeline without fighting, and is consonant with the self-government the Revolution was fought for.
2) Armed individuals capable of defending themselves locally removes another reason for expanding government coercion — making conflict with government less likely.
3) Militias provide local self-defense when government cannot, due to inadequate resources or willful neglect. In 1800, the US had vast frontiers bounded by Native Americans who opposed being dispossessed, and foreign powers (France and GB) happy to leverage them. Meanwhile the US had a regular army of a few thousand spread across thousands of miles in an age of walking speed transport.
Currently a massive, widespread natural disaster or foreign invasion would completely overwhelm the resources of the few hundred thousand active duty troops stationed in the continental US.
4) Militias provide personnel with at least some training for times when the US needs to expand its regular forces quickly. This happened in almost all US conflicts, and via State National Guard units, still does.
My main point is that it’s not all about fighting AGAINST our government. Leftists like to think 2nd A defenders are just nuts who desire an insurrection.
The main reason that it is highly unlikely that we will ever have to use our right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical gov’t is because the 2A exists in our US Constitution.
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.The militia is a subset of ANY populace. It forms by dint of able-bodied people existing.
The 1st Amendment is First for a reason. It is the hallmark of our democracy (OK, I know, I know... but it’s still a stellar word).
The 2nd Amendment is the ONLY guarantor of the First.
That makes the 2nd Amendment sacrosanct.
If they want to repeal it, let them try. Otherwise, they should go peddle papers, fly kites, pound sand, pee up a rope, screw a stump, play in traffic, or kiss my ass.