The second amendment to the
Constitution is THE most important one. It was put there deliberately. It not
only is a guarantor of rights itself…it is the only one that can protect the first amendment-the principles, the building block, the foundation
of a new nation - and all the other
amendments to follow. The second amendment in no way was meant only or
simply to protect the right of the people to hunt or shoot or just have a
gun around the house. It was meant specifically
to protect the people against tyrannical (big) government. Indeed, unlike the
first amendment’s ‘freedom OF religion’ clause, which in no way meant freedom from religion (a concept that would have
made the founders cry…or laugh…an oxymoron),
the second amendment was, as
previously stated, meant to protect the people from big government, and indeed was seen as not just a right…but a duty!
Many constitutional scholars
don’t believe that the second amendment was deliberately put where it was, that
it was intended to be…the second
amendment… for any particular reason. I mean, hell, they had to put it somewhere, right?
Similarly, many anti-gun nuts purport to
believe that the authors of this fluid and ‘living document’ would no longer want individual citizens to have the right to
own firearms in today’s world. In fact, they would believe it to be just as
important a right (and duty) as ever.
The majority of leftists/”progressives” seem to believe in one
of the following three theories regarding the crucial amendment:
1)
The Founders didn’t really mean that people had the
right to individually own and use
firearms, but only as part of a government-controlled militia or fighting unit.
This is exactly the opposite of their proclamation’s intent.
2)
The Founders missed a typo, or perhaps succumbed to a
mild case of dyslexia, and actually
meant that we had the right to arm and
keep bears. This interpretation, however, would not go over well with the
animal right’s crowd.
or
T The Founders were clearly stating that people had the
right to go sleeveless.
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