For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.
Category: Second Amendment
Minute Men needed
In my own native state of Massachusetts, the battle for American freedom was begun by the thousands of farmers and tradesmen who made up the Minute Men — citizens who were ready to defend their liberty at a moment’s notice. Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort.
The militia is the people
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves … and include all men capable of bearing arms.
Timeless Second Amendment
It’s an interesting position to suggest the 2nd Amendment should only protect the right to bear the arms in use when the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. Following this logic, the protections provided by the 1st Amendment must be similarly restricted to the technology of the time. Speech using radio or television or a blogger’s commentary or the Internet would not be protected by the 1st Amendment, since “what they had in mind” were quill pens, hand presses, and unamplified voices.
Real purpose of the 2nd Amendment
Before you jump on the emotionally-charged bandwagon for gun-control, take a moment to reflect on the real purpose of the Second Amendment, the right of the people to take up arms in defense of themselves, their families, and property in the face of invading armies or an oppressive government.
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Second Amendment stand is revealing
How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual … as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.
Guns don’t cause crime
Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage.
The real purpose of the Second Amendment
Before you jump on the emotionally-charged bandwagon for gun-control, take a moment to reflect on the real purpose of the Second Amendment, the right of the people to take up arms in defense of themselves, their families, and property in the face of invading armies or an oppressive government.
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Disarm people to enslave them
To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
A right of the individual
If a state militia guarantee rather than an individual right of citizens to keep and bear arms were the purpose of the Second Amendment, it would have been totally unnecessary and irrelevant to include any guarantee of ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms,’ since by its very nature a militia is necessarily an armed force and without arms it would be impossible to carry out its constitutional functions of suppressing insurrections and repelling invasions.