A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Gun control is a hot topic recently. There have been a lot of mass shootings and all of them are unfortunate. There has been a lot of gun sales since Obama was elected. People are afraid of the gun control laws he will (understand I did not say may) make.
However none of that is relevant to the constitution.
The constitution has been defined by the supreme court to mean that the individual has the right to own guns, regardless of being in a ‘militia’. I could go into the arguments to that, but it doesn’t matter. It has been determined that it is my right to own a gun.
The only way to rebel against a government, which the founding fathers obviously supported, is with weapons… and they protected that right. You can’t read the constitution, specifically the second amendment, any other way when you understand that. They knew that governments have to be thrown aside at times and it takes weapons to do that.
I think in my lifetime we are going to see two things:
1. The end of the United States. I just can’t see how California values can coexists with Texas values much longer.
2. Some world wide catastrophe that will end up with major losses of life. Billions dead.
I wonder if the second amendment will be the reason for number one?
Time to update this. As I read about the governor of Texas threatening to withdraw from the Union! I think we are much closer to things coming to a battle then anybody may imagine.
[Initially Written: 4.13.2009]
[Updated: 4.15.2009]