Saturday, December 22, 2012
The real purpose of the 2nd Amendment
The NRA and their howling noise machine are constantly telling us that the sole purpose of the Second Amendment is to allow anybody, without restrictions, to own more guns than a loco drug lord. And those guns are to be used for self protection, up to and including protection against the jack booted thugs of the government. This is utter codswallop, also known as pure bullshit. And examination of the creation of that amendment will easily see that it was designed to provide a militia force available to a strong government.
The reality was that the Framers wrote the Constitution and added the Second Amendment with the goal of creating a strong central government with a citizens-based military force capable of putting down insurrections, not to enable or encourage uprisings. The key Framers, after all, were mostly men of means with a huge stake in an orderly society, the likes of George Washington and James Madison.Rather than protect us against the government, the 2nd Amendment was designed to protect us from wild eyed whackdoodles rising against the government and the common good. Wild eyed whackdoodles like the NRA leadership.
President George Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, leading a combined force of state militias against the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.
The men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 weren’t precursors to France’s Robespierre or Russia’s Leon Trotsky, believers in perpetual revolutions. In fact, their work on the Constitution was influenced by the experience of Shays’ Rebellion in western Massachusetts in 1786, a populist uprising that the weak federal government, under the Articles of Confederation, lacked an army to defeat.
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