Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
This one is easy:
How do you tell the rulers through out all of human history?
Simple
They are the ones with the arms.
The men who wrote our Constitution ( and yes oh pc they were men and oh horrors! white men) knew from reading history and personal experience that governments could turn bad. Recall that they had grown to manhood loving the king and thinking themselves British people living in HRH American Colonies.
If the KING could order the Royal army or navy to fire on British people living in America and they obey; that government and Army and Navy could simply not be trusted and if the KING's government could not be Trusted NO government could be trusted. They were not too worried about the town or even the state government; local people had control of those BUT the Federal Government?? If we could not trust the king and Parliament, why in the heck would we TRUST them?? So. It was clear. If the people were to remain free, the PEOPLE had to maintain the right of arms. At the time we were one of the few nations where the people were better armed than the government's army.
We still are...
This one is easy:
How do you tell the rulers through out all of human history?
Simple
They are the ones with the arms.
The men who wrote our Constitution ( and yes oh pc they were men and oh horrors! white men) knew from reading history and personal experience that governments could turn bad. Recall that they had grown to manhood loving the king and thinking themselves British people living in HRH American Colonies.
If the KING could order the Royal army or navy to fire on British people living in America and they obey; that government and Army and Navy could simply not be trusted and if the KING's government could not be Trusted NO government could be trusted. They were not too worried about the town or even the state government; local people had control of those BUT the Federal Government?? If we could not trust the king and Parliament, why in the heck would we TRUST them?? So. It was clear. If the people were to remain free, the PEOPLE had to maintain the right of arms. At the time we were one of the few nations where the people were better armed than the government's army.
We still are...
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