Why a Second Amendment?
A primer for Flimsy Americans who should know better and Foreigners who don't
I was trying to explain to a Brit why we still need the Second Amendment. I kinda like what I wrote off the cuff.
First, if you are not a born American, please
stop trying to understand this. Only about half of Americans even understand this and the ones who don't are very happy to have government and cops control every aspect of their lives. Like all of us Yanks, you are heroically struggling with how to stop gun violence, which is noble and necessary. But I would say two things to you:
One is that it is simply impractical if not impossible to believe that anyone can or will take guns away from most Americans. Even active military, national guardsmen and LEOs have testified they would act on their oaths to Protect and Defend The Constitution if asked to systemically disarm law-abiding citizens.
So, it's really a waste of time and energy for both sides that only serves to make things worse as, in the last 8 days, sales of weapons and ammo has skyrocketed. Mass shootings and the Liberal response is very good for gun retailers!
Second, in 1791, we were in fear of the Brits and any other established country and we needed our guns to hunt, protect ourselves and any hostile natives or aliens. But most importantly, the Second Amendment was established in an addendum to our Constitution because we were more afraid of our own government and democracy than any other threat.
Before our Revolution, scads of papers were written from Thomas Payne's Common Sense to the more formal Federalist Papers. Our founders stole ideas from the French, your Magna Carta, the Greeks and Romans. (remember, these were all ulta-liberals at the time) in an attempt to make government subservient to the citizens and not the other way around. Our Bill of Rights is also written in specific order. The first is freedom of speech, for citizens and the press. It is meant to protect the media from the government and citizens, not the other way around.
Even Jefferson and Hamilton, Franklin and Adams, argued that without the Second Amendment, none of the others meant a thing.
There were many issues that didn't make the Constitution or Bill of Rights that displays their fear of government: One was that Jefferson thought only landowners should vote and that any government workers or contractors should not.
In fact, five (some say six) of our 10 bills actually prevent the government from injuring or seizing their bodies (Habeas Corpus) or their property.
The Fifth Amendment basically says an American citizen has no legal reason to ever speak to any agent of the government under any circumstances, ever.
The Tenth Amendment was meant to guarantee that local laws superseded federal laws not specified in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
I will say that, having studied history all my life, that we seem to have gone past a tipping point and our civilization is in severe decline and an inevitable collapse from within: The very scenario the founders dreaded.
On the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration, a reporter asked Jefferson thought about the new government. He said (paraphrase) we needed another revolt!
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