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The following was a post on tumblr by a guy whose handle is theheartbrokenlibertarian to someone posting the usual drivel about the founding fathers not forseeing semiauto weapon and that if you aren’t in the national guard (what they claimed is the militia) to sit down and shut up.
We have all said similar things but this was such a well put together response with the quotes and history to back it up I thought I would share it.
Ohhhh you asked for it! Buckle in for your wall of text!
@playfulpanthress et al - Here is some information on how your suppositions about the Second Amendment are incorrect.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY TO EMPOWER PRIVATE CITIZENS TO GO TO WAR AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT, OR AGAINST ANY OTHER ENEMY. THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS SO THAT ALL OF US ARE ABLE TO DEFEND OUR RIGHTS FROM ANY ENEMY THAT MAY THREATEN THEM. IT IS FOR WAR.IT’S FOR KILLING PEOPLE. IT’S SO THAT WE CAN MARCH ON WASHINGTON AND FORCIBLY UNSEAT ANY CORRUPT BASTARDS THAT TRY TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS, OR PROTECT OURSELVES FROM ANY SORT OF INVASION.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS THE “EMERGENCY, BREAK GLASS” FOR IN CASE THE FIRST AMENDMENT STOPS WORKING, OR WORSE, IS TAKEN AWAY.
The preeminent Whig historian, Thomas Macaulay, labelled this “the security without which every other is insufficient,“ and a century earlier the great jurist, William Blackstone, regarded private arms as the means by which a people might vindicate their other rights if these were suppressed. [x]
It’s not for hunting, it’s not for self defense, it’s not for target practice or sport. It IS for war. It’s so that we can be as well-armed as (or, hopefully, be better armed than) any enemy we may need to fend off, including our own government. It’s there to at least make the government think twice about trying to take away our rights, to let them know that there is an armed populace out there, ready and wiling to defend its freedoms. It’s there to give us a fighting chance at keeping and maintaining the liberty that our forefathers fought and died for, and yes, it includes AK-47s. In fact, it also includes cannon and full auto machine guns and war ships as well, and includes anybody, no matter what, acquiring as many as they want, but we’ve let those rights be infringed anyway.
And there are extremely valid reasons for the amendment being written the way it was - unchangeable. One of the MAIN reasons is that the founding fathers didn’t trust the government NOR the people. They knew the government would try to become corrupt, try to enlarge and empower itself, try to take more control than they laid it out to have. And they could clearly see the people falling for the lines that government fed them in order to make them believe that giving it more power was a good thing, was what they wanted. They knew exactly what was coming, and they predicted it pretty much flawlessly. That’s why they wrote it to be perfectly solid. Thank God!
Here, let me break it down for you. But before I get into that, you have to remember that language is fluid and that it changes over the years, that the definitions of words change and adapt all the time - for example, the word “great” used to exclusively mean very large, the word terrible used to exclusively mean awe-inspiringly, the word sick used to exclusively mean ill - so you have to look at the words and phrasing from the point of view of the time it was written, and you can’t apply our current use of language to it.
We have all said similar things but this was such a well put together response with the quotes and history to back it up I thought I would share it.
Ohhhh you asked for it! Buckle in for your wall of text!
@playfulpanthress et al - Here is some information on how your suppositions about the Second Amendment are incorrect.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY TO EMPOWER PRIVATE CITIZENS TO GO TO WAR AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT, OR AGAINST ANY OTHER ENEMY. THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS SO THAT ALL OF US ARE ABLE TO DEFEND OUR RIGHTS FROM ANY ENEMY THAT MAY THREATEN THEM. IT IS FOR WAR.IT’S FOR KILLING PEOPLE. IT’S SO THAT WE CAN MARCH ON WASHINGTON AND FORCIBLY UNSEAT ANY CORRUPT BASTARDS THAT TRY TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS, OR PROTECT OURSELVES FROM ANY SORT OF INVASION.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS THE “EMERGENCY, BREAK GLASS” FOR IN CASE THE FIRST AMENDMENT STOPS WORKING, OR WORSE, IS TAKEN AWAY.
The preeminent Whig historian, Thomas Macaulay, labelled this “the security without which every other is insufficient,“ and a century earlier the great jurist, William Blackstone, regarded private arms as the means by which a people might vindicate their other rights if these were suppressed. [x]
It’s not for hunting, it’s not for self defense, it’s not for target practice or sport. It IS for war. It’s so that we can be as well-armed as (or, hopefully, be better armed than) any enemy we may need to fend off, including our own government. It’s there to at least make the government think twice about trying to take away our rights, to let them know that there is an armed populace out there, ready and wiling to defend its freedoms. It’s there to give us a fighting chance at keeping and maintaining the liberty that our forefathers fought and died for, and yes, it includes AK-47s. In fact, it also includes cannon and full auto machine guns and war ships as well, and includes anybody, no matter what, acquiring as many as they want, but we’ve let those rights be infringed anyway.
And there are extremely valid reasons for the amendment being written the way it was - unchangeable. One of the MAIN reasons is that the founding fathers didn’t trust the government NOR the people. They knew the government would try to become corrupt, try to enlarge and empower itself, try to take more control than they laid it out to have. And they could clearly see the people falling for the lines that government fed them in order to make them believe that giving it more power was a good thing, was what they wanted. They knew exactly what was coming, and they predicted it pretty much flawlessly. That’s why they wrote it to be perfectly solid. Thank God!
Here, let me break it down for you. But before I get into that, you have to remember that language is fluid and that it changes over the years, that the definitions of words change and adapt all the time - for example, the word “great” used to exclusively mean very large, the word terrible used to exclusively mean awe-inspiringly, the word sick used to exclusively mean ill - so you have to look at the words and phrasing from the point of view of the time it was written, and you can’t apply our current use of language to it.