My main point is to show how to defeat left wing claims about the 2nd Amendment, primarily the lies that it created the National Guard or allows broad bans and restrictions on the grounds of common sense or public safety.
It couldn't have created the National Guard when it already existed in Article 1, Section 8 and Article 2, Section 2. It couldn't have granted the legislature power to ban or restrict access to weapons when it could already do that prior to the 2nd Amendment being ratified.
They're either misinterpreting the 2nd Amendment, or it was ratified for no reason, since it doesn't actually do anything.
The second amendment is just that - an amendment. A clarification.
The Constitution is not a document that tells the people what to do. It tells the government what it can do. The second amendment does not tell US, the people, what we can do. It tells the government what it can do.
In the case of the 2nd amendment, it tells the government how.
The Constitution states that the government can maintain a militia consisting of the people. The 2nd amendment lays out further detail: an amendment.
It states that the government can have this militia by regulating (keeping in good working order) weapons for the people in the militia (citizen adults).
To accomplish this all people have a right to own and bear these weapons.
The federal government has been derelict in it’s responsibilities. The federal government is supposed to provide us our weapons and repair them when needed.
They must supply us.
The old claim is that through the civilian marksmanship program, they were providing us with military issue weapons - albeit cheap and not free. That program is now gone.
Like the rest of the Constitution the federal government has broken each and every one of these laws.
A state CAN NOT override the US Constitution, regardless of states rights arguments. That means that no state can enact a law that eliminated the Constitution. To which all state laws that limit gun ownership further than what the Constitution states is null and void.
These states can only enhance these laws. Which oddly enough the Connecticut State charter, among others such as Pennsylvania, actually strengthen the language of the Constitution in regards to gun ownership.
It is not an US problem. It is a THEM problem. The Constitution is a document that tells the government how to act, not us. All of the amendments are not directed to we the people. We the people may do as we wish to seek out freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.