Posted on 02/10/2015 6:12:13 PM PST by StevenCrowder
Liberals have claimed for years that the 2nd amendment was invented in the times of mere muskets, that it doesn’t apply to today’s weapons! The only problem with that, is that weaponry was far more advanced than leftists realize, and the founding fathers addressed this a LOOOONG time ago.
Watch the only rebuttal to this argument that you’ll ever need to see! ;)
The Kentucky rifle, a musket, was the most accurate rifle of its day ...
Need that reminder on occasion.
Multi-barrel guns (2 to 20!) were not uncommon.
The “Puckle Gun” was basically a machine gun well before 1776.
Lewis & Clark took a 20+ shot semi-automatic _air_gun_ equal in force to a modern .45ACP.
A 20-round semi-auto musket was known, if a bit irritating to load.
And then, of course, there were many privately-owned cannons, and the “Letters of Marque” part of the Constitution was to give Congress’ approval to private citizens taking full-blown battleships out to wage war on other countries.
Yeah, the Founding Fathers were well aware they meant ALL weapons, then and future. Anyone arguing to the contrary need have their “freedom of the press” limited to movable-type hand-operated press circa 1776.
Excellent video. Unfortunately, the disarmists do not care about facts.
It may be helpful for those who are merely misinformed, though.
They really don’t do they?!
I don’t argue with libs on 2A. You want my firearms? Come get them...yourself.
I can no longer try to reason with ignorant, mentally ill people.
Civilians were always better armed than the average military in the past up till 1956 when the full auto M-14 accepted by the military.
The military was always one step behind.
When the army had flintlock smoothbores, civilians had rifles.
When the army accepted a flintlock rifle the civilians were using percussion cap rifles.
When the Army accepted the percussion cap rifle, civilians were using breach loader rifles.
When the military accepted a breach loading single shot rifle, civilians were using high cap lever action rifles.
When the military accepted their first bolt action rifle, civilians were using lever, slide, semi-auto, bolt action rifles, and experimenting with full auto rifles.
I call my gun “Musket” ...
Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court once appeared on the cover of Parade magazine holding a 1795 flintlock musket & saying, “THIS is what the 2nd Amendment guarantees your right to own! Period!!”
Geez....
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American … the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788
If the Second Amendment refers only to muskets, then it follows that the First Amendment freedom of the press refers only to hand-cranked printing presses.
Actually, Kentucky and Pennsylvania rifles were just that, flintlocks with rifled barrels. A musket is a smoothbore gun and they were much more common at the time being used by both hunters and the military. They could fire either ball or buckshot depending on the need.
... did you... did you actually watch the video?
Was the 1st amendment written only for hand-operated, vertical letter presses?
Well done
Well done, Steven.
“I’ll take an M1 Abrams, and a side of fries.”
They also included a clause authorizing Congress to create a patent and trademark office that would issue patents, trademarks, and copyrights, all to promote and advance the useful arts. Hence, they didn’t just realize that people would be developing more and better firearms over the coming centuries; they affirmatively encouraged it and knowingly, deliberately went on to protect it constitutionally by adopting the Second Amendment.
I did indeed watch it. You could have left the skits out, IMO, as it seemed to make the issue less serious, but it was good over all.
A little levity never hurts. {;^)
In other words, the 2nd provided for citizens to be armed equal to the armies of the day. So, I want my military version M4.
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