SECOND AMENDMENT
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess and carry firearms.[1]
In 2008 and 2010, the Supreme Court issued two landmark decisions officially establishing this interpretation. In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia[1][2] and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. In dicta, the Court listed many longstanding prohibitions and restrictions on firearms possession as being consistent with the Second Amendment.[3] In McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 3025 (2010), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment limits state and local governments to the same extent that it limits the federal government.[4]
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say that there is no good reason for civilians to have AR-15's. Imagine
you are in your home and you hear on the news that the government wants
to further limit your constitutional rights to own weapons. Next you
wonder why a country that continually starts wars all over the world and
sends our husbands, wives, sons, and daughters to fight would ask you
to disarm yourself. When the U.S.A. went to Europe to fight the Nazi
regime, Japan decided against invading America specifically because when
America sends their loved ones overseas those of us who are left are
charged with defending our country and we are armed and ready to do it.
History repeats itself and we remain ready for the threat even if it
never happens, this is a legacy that was passed down from our
forefathers and will be passed down to our sons and daughters. So stop
acting like there is not a good reason for Americans to demand that the
government respects their rights!
The second amendment says
foreign and domestic enemies. Now why would our four fathers include
domestic???? Maybe they were worried that as America grew in power that
they would be infiltrated by socialist machines spouting
misinformation??? Maybe they thought some one some day would try to take
the power away from the people by gaining election through the promise
that, “no middle income families will have to pay any new taxes”, and
taxing them through social security? Maybe they were worried that
natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina would devastate the landscape
and force citizens to protect themselves from those who would try to
gain from the tragedy. Perhaps they had the foresight to think shop
owners should be able to protect themselves from the rioting masses as
we saw in Los Angeles in 1992. The simple fact is Piers, if someone
knocked on your door and said, “okay we are going to change everything
that your country stands for because your idealism are dated and don’t
fit my idea of what is politically correct”, would you pick up a rifle
to defend it? Of course not because you are not an American! We take
pride in our country and are willing to fight to keep our land strong!
You interview all of these emotionally shattered people who can't see
through their grief and you expect the American citizens to sympathize
their rights away because these people have been through a tragedy.
Naturally there is a strong emotional response to the mass killings that
have taken place as people relive the events through misinformed news
broadcasts and outrageous treasonous legislation. However, we cannot
allow these victims to make emotional decisions about our rights. I will
protect my fellow Americans because that is what we do, our forefathers
have passed this legacy down to every able bodied American. It is our
duty to protect those who can’t protect themselves from the blinding
realization that the people should have the power in a democracy. Non
Americans could never understand what this duty entails because they do
not have the same love of country for the U.S.A. When our government
finds it necessary to waste our money by sending our loved ones to
foreign lands to blow up children in drone attacks we must open our eyes
and protect ourselves from these amoral leaders! We will not allow our
country to fall because you think our children are not safe in their
schools. No one is going to take their AR with them to the movie or to
get coffee on their way to work that is not the purpose of such a
weapon! The purpose is to allow the American people the piece of mind to
KNOW definitively that they can protect themselves and their families
from all threats “foreign and domestic”! When our presidents stop
sending our loved ones into wars with other countries and alleviate the
treats that inevitable come with war maybe the people won’t need the
security of such a weapon.
The point is, it is the choice of
the people, not the government! The government should answer to the
people. I say to those who lost their loved ones in these terrible
shootings, please educate yourselves. There are factors at work that you
have not considered. One needs only “goggle” some of the incidents that
have claimed the lives of these people and they would see the
inconsistencies that exist in the facts and investigations. Do not allow
yourself to be duped into submission because you are in pain. Piers
will never understand the American mentality because if the British
idealisms were the same as America’s we wouldn’t have a constitution
because there would not have been a revolution. They do not need to
understand it because it is up to American citizens to understand their
rights.
Americans are fighters; we believe that every person deserves
the opportunity for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the
right to bear arms. There is no magical sign, bill, or executive order
that will make mentally unstable, criminal, or power hungry people stop
creating mass panic through death and destruction of our values. The
only line of defense is the individual responsibility of every American
to uphold the principles that are set forth in our constitution and
anyone who refuses to do so is a traitor. The powers that be are
attempting to remodel our country into a socialist state that will serve
to make them more money through false promises of protection. They seek
to make us vulnerable to defeat by dividing our public in their times
of need. There are schools where actors learn how to behave in tragic
mass shooting situations; then those same actors appear when these
terrible events happen to explain the details to the nation through fake
tears and false information. From the bombing in Oklahoma City to the
fall of the world trade center our leaders have neglected to release
videos showing evidence of these men because they use these tragedies to
further their control of the masses.
These men and women should be
honored; we should celebrate their lives by finding and documenting the
truth. We must learn from these moments and develop fail safe systems
that will minimize the negative impacts in the future. Instead we allow
our grief to blind us to the facts and demand more regulation until
there is no longer a country left to defend. We refuse to listen and
debate because we are to hurt. There is nothing more irrational than
making decisions based on emotional responses that have been fed to us
by those that seek to dismantle our great nation; unless you include
following laws that are passed, not through the full body of congress
but by executive order in the middle of the night when there is no one
present to oppose them.
I don’t expect people who are not
American to understand our way of thinking; I am not naïve enough to
believe that they will be okay with our decisions. It is not about their
country it is about America and the principles that allow us to protect
ourselves from all threats foreign and domestic. Use of US military
assets by President Barrack Obama by executive order in the 2011-2012
overthrow of Khadafi in Libya was never approved by any Congressional
resolution, the one exceptional case in US history. America does not
support dictators and will not allow our constitution to be shredded by a
regime that believes they are above the law. We will not be made
vulnerable to foreign nations through false promises of protection! We
will not fail the constitution and our fore fathers by allowing the
government to strip us of our god given rights!
