We are amused
I am constantly entertained by the comments I get on my post about the Burma-shave style pro-gun rights slogans you find along highways in Illinois. You can read my post here along with the comments. Enjoy!
I will say, nothing in the 2nd Amendment language supports the idea that it was written so that U.S. citizens could protect themselves against the government of the United States. While that may be a necessary right — and I do heartily agree that we need such protection — it does not derive from the language of the 2nd Amendment. Deriving a right to protect oneself from government by use of firearms from the 2nd Amendment is somewhat akin (in my mind) to deriving a right to kill unborn fetuses from the 9th Amendment.
December 4th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
You’re correct. It’s not about US Citizens protecting themselves from state governments. It’s about state citizens protecting themselves from the US Government. That’s why it says the “security of a free State” depends on the existence of a well regulated militia.
Anyway, that amendment is slowly being ground into dust along with the rest of them, and being used as a cap over the over grave that was our free country, so quibbling over original intent is beating a dead horse at this point.