Posted on 01/26/2016 9:26:54 AM PST by rktman
If you want to understand how the United States came to have the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, David Hardy's book Origins and Development of the Second Amendment may be the best place to go. I've read numerous books and articles about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Some have been short, others hundreds of pages. David T. Hardy's slim book gets it done. This is surprising, because . . .
the book was originally published in 1986. That said, the second edition includes sections on the D.C. v Heller case on McDonald v. Chicago. The slender volume now has 111 pages, 16 more pages than the original 95.
[I was in Panama in 1986, when the Internet was just starting to form. I had an account on MILNET, one of the early precursors of the Internet, but it was limited to official email. So I missed Hardy's book.]
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
It’s like how the left seems to love re-inventing history for their own purposes. As an example, I think often of a scene from an episode of “All in the Family”, in which the Mike Stivic character lectures to Archie Bunker about how the “Star Spangled Banner” glorifies war and fighting. Nothing could be further from the truth as it was written by Francis Scott Key, who was simply inspired by how the American forces held back against the British in the 1812 attack on Washington, DC.
But it still comes back to how they figure that they can go ahead and twist and distort and rewrite and edit things to how they want it to read.
Another good one is...
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
February 1982.
Very rare and hard to find now days.
***It’s like how the left seems to love re-inventing history for their own purposes.***
How true! Remember how in the anti-handgun 1970s the Leftists rediscovered the Miller Decision? They proclaimed that that decision “proved” that handguns were not ordinary military equipment but rifles were, so handguns could be banned in the USA.
Ten years later they were demanding the banning of semi-auto military style rifles.
Key wrote about Ft McHenry in Baltimore. Washington, D.C.’s defense was a debacle. Politicians including Sec of War fled (except Sec of State James Monroe), and the British torched the White House, Capital (which housed the Library of Congress), etc.
Thanks. I knew it was in that vicinity and sorry for having been mistaken in those further details. Hoping I was, fwiw, correct in saying that the song was inspired by the resilience of American forces as opposed to simply engaging in war or attacking, as commonly alleged by the Left.
Great article, thanks for posting.
Not only am I going to order the book, I got a new tagline.
Certainly you are making a valid point: the message of the song involves the pride of successful self-defense, not militarism with no context.
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