Mama always taught me that "where's there a will there is a way". Also sometimes also known as "necessity is the mother of invention".
My 5th grade history teacher taught me the “life, the universe, everything” part about the constitution, after months of intensive study (I was required to recite, from memory, the Preamble to the Constitution as example)
“The Constitution was not written for you. It was written for the government.” He continued “Many people will tell you what you can and can’t do and then refer you to the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t dictate you. You are the boss. It dictates how the government handles itself”
So basically, the 2nd Amendment isn’t for us. Our right to defend ourselves seeing any method we see fit has never come under question in the founding the documents. That’s ridiculous. It tells the Congress that they must prepare, arm and train the Militia. It says that the Militia consists of the people and “Oh by the way” (Amendment) It is the job of the Congress to ensure that we are all armed.
The 1st Amendment isn’t for us, unless we are running a printing press. The 1st amendment was not written to protect the individual right to speak out against the government. The government never gives a sh!t about what people say. They care about what the media says (!). And yes, after we won our independence from Britain, the Continental Congress DID setup what is basically “Consultants” at printing presses to “Clarify” things about the government. After that behavior, it was built into the 1st amendment that no longer will the government have any jurisprudence or input over the printing press.
Hell, even King George didn’t care about what the people said about him. He cared about them paying taxes and producing goods.
every word of the Constitution is meant to tell the government what it could and could not do.. It doesn’t tell us what we can and cannot do. And hereby any politician or treacherous sh!tbag has utterly no business telling me about “My 2nd amendment right”.
No no no my friend, The government works for us. I haven’t forgotten that. What’s happened here is that over the course of about 100 years they have somehow managed to convince us of the opposite. So convinced are we that we will fight tooth and nail that our lives are dictated through law. People fight me on this point like Europeans fight me on how free they are. And for the same reason.
Since the communists took over in the 50s (And yes, that happened) of the education system we have been treated in two different ways that equal one result:
1) Schooling apart from parents was made mainstream, if not totally mandated through Truancy laws
2) From there, apart from our parents, they were allowed to teach anything they wanted.
It worked. Even my 5th grade teacher was shown the door for teaching “sideline curriculum” including CW from the viewpoint of the South (And a little lesson on banking and how the winners write history), the real way that slaves were brought into America (Why take from Africa when the creole islands were right there?) and other golden eye-popping lessons.
So again, the Constitution doesn’t tell us what to do. We are it’s author and we are the government’s bosses. It’s time to show them that and while I can’t tell you “how” to show them that, I can at least start to change some people’s minds and remind them of how they are supposed to think.
President Donald Trump works for us. That’s you and I.