Oh, dearest sister in Christ, I couldn't agree with you more on this question!
Thus you quite correctly note:
And as many here will testify, that is the underlying reason for the 2nd Amendment - the right to keep and bear arms.Amen to that! There's nothing like logic to "connect the dots"....
Meanwhile, we have the spectacle of Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar or whatever, who not only argues that animals have the "natural" (???) right to sue human beings in court, but that the interpretation of the Framer's meaning of the Second Amendment increasingly in vogue nowadays is increasingly anhistorical the farther out in time we go.
Sunstein's argument goes that the original understanding of the RKBA is inseparable from the idea of a "state" militia. It has nothing to do with such inconsequential things as, say, the individual right of self-defense or protection of property. Only the "common defense" — under State oversight and regulation — was envisioned by the Framers.
Thus according to Sunstein, it was the "common defense" (under State regulation, etc.) that the Framers had in mind when they were crafting the language of the Second Amendment. Where this "bogus" notion of personal self-defense came from — i.e., that the Second Amendment protects the individual rights of life, liberty, and property against all comers individual or corporate — was the hallucination of right-wing-conspiracy-freak groups of fairly recent vintage.
It is these people who are distorting the pristine meaning of the Framers' intentions! And it is simply criminal that such people are slandering the Bill of Rights in that way!!! Thus cynically misleading their own fellow citizens! Shame on them! (So when can we start arresting them?)
Are you as sick as I am, of the total inversion of reality that these idiots are trying to perpetrate on the American people right now?
Sigh....
People, stand in Truth or you WILL be blown away by the tumultuous winds that are coming....
Thank you ever so much for writing, dearest sister in Christ!
If the 2nd Amendment was truly honoured in spirit, civilians should be able to own, maintain and use jet fighters and nuclear weapons.
Fortunately, the polls are detecting an ever-increasing buyer's remorse. For the wrong reasons, no doubt, but the door is prying open to begin correcting the drift.