[FlingWingFlyer]

"This is where American history becomes very politically incorrect because the Second Amendment was not drafted for hunting, or just self defense from an attacker. The Second Amendment was put into place to guarantee the rights of the individual to be equally armed as military, both foreign and domestic, in the event that the citizenry might actually, at some point, have to fight their own government,"

Bingo!

I laugh when the potheads try to tell me that the Second Amendment is about the National Guard. LOL! It's obvious that they are clueless as to what the Bill of Rights is.

Clue: The Bill of Rights doesn't guarantee rights to the government. The Second Amendment was not written to guarantee the government the right to have a National Guard.

[Ancesthntr]

The idea that the 2nd Amendment was ratified by a group of literal revolutionaries who had just defeated the world’s then-most powerful empire for the purpose of ensuring that some 21st Century Elmer Fudd would have the right to hunt Bambi is absurd beyond belief or rational discourse. All that one must do to understand its purpose is to read the argument for revolt against a legally-constituted government in the Declaration of Independence.

Equally absurd is the argument that the 2nd only applies to muskets and the like, since that’s all that existed then. Ask the moron who makes that point if he or she would similarly allow government censorship of the Internet because it didn’t exist in 1791, and watch the drooling idiot shut up instantly and look for someone else to talk with ASAP.