[Political Junkie Too]

The 2nd amendment is about self defense, fundamentally. The right to protect yourself from tyrannous government derives from self defense.

I'll take it one step further and say that the 2nd amendment supports what Jefferson wrote in the Declaration. It supports the inalienable right to Life (self-defense), and the inalienable right to Liberty (protection from tyranny). Without those two, there can be no inalienable right to pursue Happiness.

Remember that the Preamble to the Constitution says that We the People established the Constitution to secure the "Blessings of Liberty" for ourselves and our Posterity. The capitalized Liberty refers to the inalienable right to Liberty from the Declaration, and the capitalized Blessings refers to the rights as being endowed by the Creator, which is what makes them inalienable.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

To further elaborate on my previous point, when Obama says that people bitterly cling to their guns or religion, he's disparaging those who believe that the right to keep and bear arms is necessary to protect their inalienable rights from being taken away by people like Obama.

-PJ