A well regulated militia

Ironic they use the first amendment to make a mockery of the second...

Sad thing is most people have no idea that, thats what the second ammendment says. And half of those who do, completely misunderstand or misrepresent it.

Whitebread said:

Sad thing is most people have no idea that, thats what the second ammendment says. And half of those who do, completely misunderstand or misrepresent it.

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What's sad is there are people who are naturally born citizens in this country who are afforded the protections of the Rights under the Constitution; that are willing to discard those in which they do not like. And, with no second thought whatsoever about the consequences!

Funny how most of those American born citizens don't realize how truly and unbelievably lucky they are, that out of 7.4 billion people born everywhere else in the world, they are only 1 that was born here.

*Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!*

George Mason

A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms. . . To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms… The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle.* – Letters From the Federal Farmer to the Republican, Letter XVIII, January 25, 1788 ... Richard Lee

*At a time, when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. Addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to Parliament, we have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of. How far, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed, by starving their trade and manufacturers, remains to be tried.* – Letter to George Mason, Apr. 5, 1769; The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889). Vol. III (1758-1775)

*To suppose arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties, or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government.* – A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Chapter Third: Marchamont Nedham, Errors of Government and Rules of Policy, 1787; The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, by his Grandson Charles Francis Adams, (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856) 10 volumes, Volume 6

*False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. Laws that forbid the carrying of arms laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they act rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.* – Quoting Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment Thomas Jefferson

I could go on and on but you get the gist of it, anti second amendment folks try to hang their collective hats on the preamble of the second amendment "well regulated militia" but when you look at it from the context of the founders intent there is NO grey area it is clear that they mean the body of We the people as a whole and those inalienable rights shall not be infringed upon. Americans have been dumbed down by government schools into thinking their rights are granted to them by the Constitution and their benevolent "leaders" in government when that couldnt be farther from the truth. The Constitution doesnt grant rights we were born with those endowed to us by our creator the Constitution restricts what the government can and cant do and the sooner we get back to true republican governance the better for us all.

We are regulated to death. We need to get rid of many of our gun laws.