Posted on 03/29/2016 8:28:42 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
On December 15, 1791 the states which comprised our fledgling democracy ratified ten amendments which became known as the Bill of Rights.
The preamble to the Bill of Rights states, “the conventions of a number of states …expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers.” The intent of the Founders was to restrain government abuses, the amendments contained in the Bill designed to be checks and balances on government authority. The second amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Here, the founders write that to keep the state free, people have the right to keep and bear arms. The “why” we need a second amendment is clear: to protect a free state - to protect freedom.
James Madison initially proposed these amendments on June 8, 1789. Only six years earlier, in 1783, the Treaty of Paris ending the War with King George was signed. The final agreement with England on America’s boundaries did not occur until 1795 with the Jay Treaty. The Bill of Rights was passed within eight years of a bloody war in which citizen soldiers picked up their own weapons and overthrew a tyrannical government. It is clear the authors of the second amendment intended to provide the citizenry a means to defend freedom from abusive governments, whether existing at home or abroad.
While enabling citizens to protect themselves from other citizens, the second amendment goes well beyond just allowing us to protect our life or property from a criminal. Considering the timing of its writing and the men who penned and ratified the Bill of Rights, the right to keep and bear arms was to be the ultimate check...
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Who said...
“Americans don’t go around carrying guns with the idea they’re using them to influence other Americans. There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”
“Everybody get ready to unload their guns now”
Mmm, I prefer to stick another mag in my pocket.
Governor Ronald Reagan.
Elitist politicians beware, future laws or ifringements and we will have your heads. The USSC would do well to pay attention to this ad well.
I have long argued that the second amendment protects the first and enforces the rest.
Further, that is the reason why the Bill of Rights was constructed with specific words and in that specific order that it was invented
FREEDOM......... COMES OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN.......
always has and always will
rock, spear, arrow, knife...wahtever
you got the point
Thank James Madison for the Second Amendment. The other Founders felt gun ownership was a given and felt it wasn’t necessary to include it in The Bill Of Rights but Madison insisted on it being included in The Bill of Rights. The NRA has an organization called “The Madison Club’’ that educates the public on the 2A and defends it.
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