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Originally Posted by Hood
You really think individual US citizens are empowered?
How?
As I read it the right to bear arms is that so you can help defend the nation, not yourself.
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WONG! This is my major
Let me set you straight. That is exactly its intent - to defend yourself. Since you play IL-2 Cliffs of Dover (of I assume you do) it should be pretty easy for you to answer - who in history during this period of time this game is set - was a tyrant that was elected to office by a free society?
The constitution / bill of rights is a charter if negative liberties aimed squarely at the government with maximum freedom to the individual - written in such a way as to say what the government will NOT do for you. NOT what it will do for you.
The second amendment is not only to defend the nation from foreign aggression. But domestic and the government from becoming tyrannical.
The founders specifically meant that sometimes when the people don't get their way at the ballot box, there has to be another method to make change.
Thus the second amendment remedy was born.
This is from the federalist papers.
James Madison wrote "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."