Why does the 2nd amendment exist?

[MarkDuffy]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons.

So what's the problem?

Democrats win

 

[Votto]

But the Founding Fathers never intended the second amendment to mean we could bear arms, just militias.

They just forgot to enforce this for about 200 years or so.

You skipped English grammar and punctuation in school, didn't you?

Yes, I hate it when that happens. It can lead to misunderstandings.

 

[Crackerjack]

Real answer: The Second Amendment is proof that trusting government to recognize a fundamental right is a shitty idea.

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[Votto]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons.

So what's the problem?

Democrats win

Well the democrats always win. The GOP says they want to win, and the get voted into office only to say that they changed their minds, much like Obamacare.

Really there is no opposition party.

 

[Vastator]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

The 2nd exists primarily to ensure the people, have the ability to throw off an oppressive government, whose consent to govern has been revoked by the people.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

The real unspoken objection to the right to bear arms coming from the left is that by and large firearms are being used by the left to commit crimes on/against one another.

 

[Crackerjack]

The 2nd exists primarily to ensure the people, have the ability to throw off an oppressive government, whose consent to govern has been revoked by the people.

In other words, we're trusting the government to protect the right of the people to violently overthrow it.

 

[MarkDuffy]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons.

So what's the problem?

Democrats win

Well the democrats always win. The GOP says they want to win, and the get voted into office only to say that they changed their minds, much like Obamacare.

Really there is no opposition party.

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

 

[Votto]

Real answer: The Second Amendment is proof that trusting government to recognize a fundamental right is a shitty idea.

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Look, just because the Federal government locked up innocent Japanese Americans in no way means they can't be trusted to recognize our fundamental rights under the Constitution. It's just that they don't care.

 

[Votto]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons.

So what's the problem?

Democrats win

Well the democrats always win. The GOP says they want to win, and the get voted into office only to say that they changed their minds, much like Obamacare.

Really there is no opposition party.

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Yes, the deep state with shallow brains.

Enjoy speaking Russian and/or Chinese.

 

[MarkDuffy]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

The 2nd exists primarily to ensure the people, have the ability to throw off an oppressive government, whose consent to govern has been revoked by the people.

That worked so well in the 1860s

 

[Crackerjack]

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Balls deep.

Just no more Weiners.

 

[Votto]

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Balls deep.

Just no more Weiners.

Speaking of which, he is probably up to his eye balls in wieners now.

Sick bastard is probably enjoying it.

 

[MarkDuffy]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
.
.
.
.
it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons.

So what's the problem?

Democrats win

Well the democrats always win. The GOP says they want to win, and the get voted into office only to say that they changed their minds, much like Obamacare.

Really there is no opposition party.

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Yes, the deep state with shallow brains.

Enjoy speaking Russian and/or Chinese.

trump will be overthrown before that happens. A Democrat will save us.

 

[Flash]

Actually it gives the reason in the amendment "being necessary for the security of a free state"

 

[pismoe]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
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.
.
.
it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

The 2nd exists primarily to ensure the people, have the ability to throw off an oppressive government, whose consent to govern has been revoked by the people.

----------------------------------------------------25 posts but you WIN Vastator !!

 

[MarkDuffy]

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Balls deep.

Just no more Weiners.

At least with him, it was members of the opposite sex.

You republicans are led by perverts

Former Speaker Hastert released from prison

 

[Vastator]

The 2nd exists primarily to ensure the people, have the ability to throw off an oppressive government, whose consent to govern has been revoked by the people.

In other words, we're trusting the government to protect the right of the people to violently overthrow it.

Not quite. The founders sure didn’t. They were giving the citizens a chance to fight back. Unfortunately half our fellow citizens want that chance taken from all of us; so they can run rough shod over the people of this country without fear of being killed.

 

[Votto]

The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that this right applies to individuals, not merely to collective militias, it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons. Requested by several states during the Constitutional ratification debates, the amendment reflected the lingering resentment over the widespread efforts of the British to confiscate the colonists' firearms at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry had rhetorically asked, shall we be stronger, "when we are totally disarmed, and when a British Guard shall be stationed in every house?"
.
.
.
.
it's so liberal to not see the big picture.

They are emotional and hand wringers....fuck facts.

it has also held that the government may regulate or place some limits on the manufacture, ownership and sale of firearms or other weapons.

So what's the problem?

Democrats win

Well the democrats always win. The GOP says they want to win, and the get voted into office only to say that they changed their minds, much like Obamacare.

Really there is no opposition party.

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Yes, the deep state with shallow brains.

Enjoy speaking Russian and/or Chinese.

trump will be overthrown before that happens. A Democrat will save us.

Well you tried to assassinate the entire GOP Congress.

I guess that was the warm up.

 

[Crackerjack]

Don't tell anyone

we are the Deep State

Balls deep.

Just no more Weiners.

Speaking of which, he is probably up to his eye balls in wieners now.

Sick bastard is probably enjoying it.

Nah, he's doing his time in solitary.

Mind fuck or ass fuck is an unenviable choice. Not that I feel sorry for him ...