Thank God that Ted Olsen and the President understand that words mean things. How refreshing to see an administration that understands such a simple fact.
The Second Amendment is the amendment that in the final analysis protects all of the others.
The original intent of the framers was that every man who had reached his majority would own and know how to use his own military rifle and ammunition.
Hey, its worked for over 200 years...no one has been stupid enough to invade America since Andy Jackson and his band of farmers and assorted miscreants with their squirrel guns sent the British packing down the Mississippi with their bloody tail between their legs almost 200 years ago. Not even the Germans and the Japanese in WWII were stupid enough to think that any member of any invading force they might send to our shores would leave alive. They, like the Moslems of today, were reduced to a cowardly sneak attack raid, but certainly no invasion.
No one has ever been stupid enough to invade Switzerland, where every citizen has an automatic rifle in their closet.
Can any person in their right mind think that if the Cuban people had not been disarmed that Castro would have been able to oppress them for 40 years?
Can any sane individual think that the Chinese Communist dictators would have crushed thousands of teenagers under their tank tracks in Tiennamen Square if the Chinese people were armed?
My guns are nice to hunt with...it is a good thing that any idiot who tries to invade my household will have a gun-barrel up his nose...but in fact, those are minor issues compared to the Second Amendment's true and full purpose, which is to be the final protector of our God-given, inalienable rights, and to give pause to any potential tyrant.
Regards...EV
Thanks much!!
Greg