No, I believe the second amendment was to PREVENT such events.
oh goody more stupid people telling me what Madison meant when they neother respect him or value anything he ever did.....bleeech
Madison also never expected millions of Americans to kill their babies in their wombs either.
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." (Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment [ I Annals of Congress at 750 {August 17, 1789}])
Forget the Bushmaster (alleged assault) weapon. He could have killed just as many with the two handguns he brought that day. So are the media-commies wanting to ban handguns?
Actually I am wondering why the mother allowed her crazy son access to her guns.
All the wondering starts and stops right there.
The founders meant military arms.
That would include select fire assault rifles as well as full auto carbines.
If one of the teachers was thus armed and trained, as they are in Israel, the carnage may have been completely prevented.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT EXISTS FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ONLY... AS A LAST LINE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE AGAINST A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT RULED BY DESPOTS. LEAVE OUR RIGHTS ALONE OR BLOOD WILL FLOW IN THE STREETS.
LLS
We don’t have a Constitution any more. We have replaced it with Presidential Executive Orders empowered by a gutless Congress and approved by the radical liberal US federal court system. America as founded is dead. We few out here that give a rat’s rear end are now behind enemy lines. We are on our own. We are why FEMA is building their interment camps. There are some on a military base not far from where I live. Nice little place. Gulag style wooden barrack buildings, plenty of barbed wire, and of course the customary guard towers. Makes you wonder just why we need those here in our country. Use on non-compliance rebels? That’d be us by the way. Christians, conservatives, republicans, patriots, gun owners, anti-communists. Yup, that’s us. Enemies in our own country according to the homosexuals and liberals.
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OK, let’s start disarming all the drug gangs.
See how that goes, then we’ll talk.
He meant for the adults present to be equally or superiorly armed so that they could have stopped the little puke dead in his tracks.
Aaron Burger channeling James Madison! Cool! I’ll bet Aaron has been abducted by UFOs too. Cue up the theme from Twilight Zone.
Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans. 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 always remain, in the hands of the people. — Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
CSM is very liberal, dont let name fool you.
If you read the article it makes the case that the reasons why the founders wanted us to be allowed to own guns are all gone now, they dont exist anymore. It is not an argument why the 2nd amendment never protected those rights.
“it is safe to say that this justification’s time has passed.”
But how about the 1st amendment and the CSM?? Is that time passed also?
Madison never envisioned God kicked out of schools either.
The second amendment was written so as to allow an armed population the ability to overthrow a government gone rogue..
with that in mind, any and every weapon our military possesses, we as citizens have not only the right, but the duty to possess...
this includes so called assault rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortar and cannon, tanks, armored personnel carriers, aircraft and even warships ( provided you can afford it )..
keep in mind that during the time of the revolution, our fledgling government LEASED warships and cannon from PRIVATE owners..
So, we had far greater freedoms under the king than we do now...
think about it....
Seriously what is with the christian science monitor does did some leftist buy it out to turn it into a propaganda machine?
The author should be reminded that God does not help people who refused to help themselves.
You can no more disarm the world than you can change the nature of the human race. You either are prepared to deal with that world as is(as the teachers of this school were not) or you and those depended upon you(such as the children) will fall victim to what ever calamity your unprepared for.
That is the hard truth, and those who wish to ignore that true do so at great peril, not always there own as in the case of theses children.
What right does the author have to post this article on the internet?
Whada maroon!
It's a shame that the Bill of Rights did not contain an explicit right to self defense. I'm guessing the founders could not imagine otherwise; believing it to be obvious.