As though you needed an amendment to say that states may have armies. States have had armies forever before that was written.
You may read it as because states have armies, you need a weapon to defend yourself against the state.
It ain't difficult...if I,who's never been mistaken for a rocket scientist,can figure it out today's Rat Party leadership can.
The Bill of Rights are, each and every one of them, the rights of individuals.
Thank you James Madison. Without ‘’Little Jim’s’’ insistence on the 2nd. Amendment being put into the Constitution we could have lost this most important right a long time ago. Not that the other Founders were against it, they just thought it was a given. Madison insisted on it being put in there.
A main spark for our rebellion against a despotic monarch was when that regime’s army was sent to confiscate privately owned arms, leading to the fights at Lexington and Concord Bridge. The idea that a 2nd Amendment written by people who had recently been through that experience wouldn’t apply to privately owned arms is ludicrous.
The united states at the time also didnt have a full time profesional army with the incredible capability and equipment we have today.
By the libtard logic, we must also get rid of this entirely because these weapons and full time soldiers didnt exist when the constitution was written.
The Second Amendment had its roots in events back in Great Britain, events still very fresh in the memory of American Colonials, particularly those of Scottish descent.
The Kingdom of England absorbed the once independent Kingdom of Scotland in 1707.
Parliament followed that by passing the Disarming Act of 1716 to prevent any Scot ideas of renewed independence from England.
In 1746 Parliament upped the ante on violations of the Disarming Act by sentencing guilty Scots to indentured servitude in the Colonies.
The Colonial Americans not only knew this history, some had direct experience with it. And they weren’t going to give another ruler the power to disarm them.
There is also the long forgotten (in America) Declaration of Right, of 1689, a precursor of our own Bill of Rights of a hundred years later. The DoR 1689 limited the powers of the King, and one of its points prohibited the King from stripping citizens of their arms.
our Founders intended all citizens able and willing to defend against enemies foreign and domestic, including the very much feared federal government they established going bonkers or seizing more power than the limited powers they so carefully enumerated to it.......(regrettably, the federal government did just that...as they feared so much..grabbing excessive powers while abrogating the individual rights of citizens....these unfortunate events only heighten the critical importance of Americans staying fully armed and at the ready...Plus, there is now the spectacle of millions of illegals invading USA...again, Americans must be ready to defend their homes and communities)
Unloaded and in a locked strong box when you’re out of the house.
On of the missing perspectives in the RTKABA argument is the State Constitutions written about the same time or before the federal constitution. A few of them use different words and also, some of them are very clear that the RTKABA includes the right to use arms to defend oneself.