NON print version:
http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/the-2nd-amendments-very-ancient-roots/?cat_orig=diversions
While people point to the repressive Crown measures as leading to the Revolutionary War, the fact is the shooting started when the Brits went for the colonists’ arsenal. Without it, the colonists knew they were nothing; now we are citizens, while Brits are still SUBJECTS.
THEN it is necessary that the means to preserve life and liberty, especially in the case of imminent and immediate threat, be readily at hand.
THUS, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, because to infringe the means of preserving a right is to deny the right itself.
The logic is ineluctable and unbreakable; if you deny the right to keep and bear arms you are denying the very root notion at the founding of this country.
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We fail to remember many of our Country's Founders and this gentleman is certainly one of them. A Harvard graduate and physician, a reasonably wealthy member of Boston society, he joined with Paul Revere, John Hancock, Sam Adams in the famous group, "The Sons of Liberty". He helped write the report on the Boston Massacre, served as a prominent member of the Massachusetts's Committee of Correspondence and became President of Massachusetts' Provincial Congress.
It was he who coordinated the 'midnight rides' of Paul Revere & William Dawes that led to the FIRST battles of Lexington & Concord. He, himself, slipped through the British blockade lines to fight the Regulars on their return to Boston.
Although he became a General in Massachusetts Militia, when the troops were mustered for the Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) Battle, he declined command to serve as a common soldier on Breed's Hill. He was killed at the British third and successful assault. The British initially stripped him of his clothing and buried him in a ditch but later, showing their hatred and contempt for such an adversary, returned and mutilated the body, including decapitation. When, 8 months later, after the withdrawal of the British from Boston, his body was identified by Paul Revere from an artificial tooth that he had made.
I read the first part and scanned the rest of
it. It appeared to me that the author was a little
too stuck to a ‘guns in the hands of the militia’
argument which suggests that weapons be kept at an
armory in the eyes of the gun grabbers. No thanks.
I prefer to hitch my star to what the ‘Father of the
Constitution’ had to say about gun ownership in
The Federalist #46. James Madison informs us that
ARMED CITIZENS would comprise local militias. And,
in true American braggert style he proclaims that
Americans are armed while Europeans have had their
weapons confiscated by their tyrannical leaders.
Without the support of society and protection of the law, life in those times eas guaranteed to be brutal and likely short. The worst punishment next to being killed was to be banished. An outlaw is not, despite the way we use it today, someone who operates outside of the law, it means someone who no longer has the protection of law. So an outlaw is a particularly bad form of criminal but not all criminals were outlaws.
Even then a criminals weapons werent taken when outlawed because it was understood that to take the banished persons weapons was the same as killing them. They no longer had the protection of the law so someone could go out and try to kill them but even then it was understood that a man, like any animal, has the right to defend himself.
How far back before that the natural law was recognized I dont know that anyone can say but its not important really. The understanding that under natural law everything had a right to defend itself pre-dated the US and its militias, or Roman times, and did not come to us via any culture known in the Middle East.
(At this point someone jumps in and points out that many of the peoples of Europe are believed to have migrated from areas in and about the Middle East and that may well be but those peoples laws may predate known Jewish militias unless you argue back to Noah and that becomes a discussion of faith, not history.)