[Gumption]

I have 2 daughters (now 14 & 16) who go to public school in Maryland. While they were in elementary school I would read everything they brought home with a hypersensitive eye and then proceed to correct what was being pounded into their mushy little heads in a very long winded way. So much so that they became very obverse to showing me anything the school would give them.

When they got to learning about the Constitution (4th grade I think) they were given a ditto, for homework, "synopsizing" the first 10 amendments that they had to match up with the corresponding number. Being in Maryland, I was highly suspect when I began to perused this assignment. When I got a little way down the list I saw words that simply said "the right to own guns". To say I was pleasantly surprised is the understatement of the decade.

They also had Rep. Bob Ehrlich (now our Governor) in to talk to the kids and he handed every child a complete copy of the Constitution, that we still have and use today. From that point on I have been less suspicious of the public school system.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Nice story.

For me the main issue of the second amendment which is almost never brought up is the requirement of an armed citizenry to form militias that could potentially be the last line of defense against a tyrannous government.

Honestly I find those gentlemen who talk about their guns as if they were extensions of their manhood or love to talk about "from my cold dead hands" at best silly, and at worst counterproductive oafs.

The 2nd amendment is 2nd because it is the 2nd most important right to ensure an enduring democracy, even under the worst imaginable circumstances i.e. an invading army or the US government itself using the military to impose the will of tyrannous regime it may itself have become.

The 2nd amendment is not about hunting and it is not about protecting oneself from criminals. It is about national defense and the eternal vigilance required to preserve an inherently unstable balance required for representative democracy to endure.

[Shimmer128]

So they got something right ONE TIME and you have been less suspicious??
Silly person!

[wintertime]

From that point on I have been less suspicious of the public school system

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Gumption,

There are issues by the HUNDREDS that are suspicious.

Please, why on earth are you institutionalizing your children for their education? Do you have a good reason to have to resort to this?

I lived in Cecil County Maryland for 18 years and moved only 5 years ago. I testify that the Maryland schools are a cesspool of liberal/Marxist offal.