Because I want to be just as well armed as the government that will be trying to kill me. That's why. And that is the reason the Founders wrote the Amendment in the first place. It ain't about hunting dude, it's about being able to remove an illegitimate government.
It's about slave states being able to mount armed slave patrols.
Funny how you progressives will admit that the 1st Amendment through the 9th are all INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, but the 2nd, isn't. The 10th States that whatever is not an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT, is reserved for the individual States. See that INDIVIDUAL RIGHT wording? A State doesn't need a RIGHT, it is POWER. PEOPLE need RIGHTS. Not governments.
Whatever is not reserved as an Individual Right is reserved as a power to the States. Whatever is not reserved by the States goes to the Federal government. In its origin, the United STATES was intended that the STATES hold most of the power, and only those few global issues left such as border control, national security, etc., went to the Fed.
Jump 240 years later and now the Fed has usurped all kinds of powers never intended it, most of them stolen from the States. The Fed has made itself into this huge overlord under which the States must cower, when it is supposed to be the other way around. Is it any wonder the USA is now in this topsy turvy confusion? If not for the now bloated and vast spending of the Fed, we might actually have a balanced budget.
That is backwards - anything not reserved for the federal government goes to the states and anything not reserved for the states goes to the people. IOW, if it is not a power directly given to some level of government than that power belongs with the individual themselves.
That is backwards - anything not reserved for the federal government goes to the states and anything not reserved for the states goes to the people. IOW, if it is not a power directly given to some level of government than that power belongs with the individual themselves.
Right Ace, the Fed gets first pick of everything and gives the leftovers to the states, and the states to the people. We are lucky to get anything at all! And since our rights and powers are given by the Fed or the states, they are free to take them back, any time they want.
Where did you say you got your education?
NEVER MIND THAT the Declaration of Independence starts its first sentence talking about
PEOPLE, not states or Federal governments.
NEVER MIND THAT it begins talking of
God-given rights, of mankind, that certain truths be self-evidence, not rights granted by the states or the Federal gov.
NEVER MIND THAT it says that governments derive their powers from the consent of the
People.
NEVER MIND THAT if any government becomes destructive to the ends decreed by the DoI, that it is the
right of the People to abolish it!
NEVER MIND THAT the first thing the DoI lays out are the specific duties and
LIMITATIONS of the Federal Government to be only those duties common to all states and of a national interest.
NEVER MIND THAT the DoI declares that in the name of the
People of the colonies of the USA that the States are FREE and INDEPENDENT.
NEVER MIND THAT the US Constitution begins:
WE THE PEOPLE do establish this Constitution, whose first thing is to enumerate the duties and specific LIMITATIONS of the Federal government.
NEVER MIND THAT the Bill of Rights begins by delineating (to who? The Fed?, The States?, No, to the
PEOPLE) that in order to prevent misunderstanding or abuse of power of the government to who?
The People, no less than 26 specific, inalienable rights to The People; inalienable by who? The States and Federal Government!
NEVER MIND THAT in Article X of the BoR, it is declared that only those specific powers as delineated to the Fed by the Declaration of Independence and within said Constitution shall be construed, and that all other powers not limited to the Fed
are those of the People and of the States. Put another way, that means that all rights and powers are those of the People and the States, EXCEPT those few necessary to the Fed as the common duties to the protection and preservation of the USA as a whole:
Armies,
Trade to other nations,
Taxes and currency,
Borders and national defense, etc.
All other governing powers are given under the CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE to their States, and all Rights to the People.
THE POINT BEING that all powers come from
the People and THEIR CONSENT to be governed, under which all powers are granted the States except those of a common nature to all, such as national protection, trade, currency and the like.
The
MANY PEOPLE of the USA issued the laws by which THEY consent to be governed under free and individual states of a common union THEY CREATED, and under that common union the States decreed a federal governance under the People's Law for the dispensation of those limited specific common national duties.
The Fed is 525 elected people, elected by the CITIZENS.
The States are thousands of elected people, elected by the CITIZENS.
The Citizens are 320 Billion PEOPLE.
And if the government ever gets too far off track, it is THE PEOPLE who have the Right and Power to fix it, change it or abolish it as THEY see fit. And the Bill of Rights decrees by the people that they shall maintain a well-armed militia for said duty of limiting abusive government power. It is the PEOPLE who created the States and the government and ultimately it is the PEOPLE who can take it all back.
The only thing ass backwards here Dude is your HEAD.