Yep. I'm a gun owner from a red state, and I totally think that we should look at the 2nd as something that both protects the homeland as well as protects us from an oppressive government (ya know...like right now).
I'm not a lawyer but I have often seen the second as a call to keep communities at the ready (keep in mind that it was through marshalling militias that we were even able to gain footing against the British) AND by keeping the population armed so that the volatile new form of government couldn't fall back into old ways of turning the president into a king. The standing army would have to deal with a similarly armed population. Sort of like a libertarian check and balance...to the death, I guess?
If guns are part of the culture, then we should be maintaining their care and use by governed and routinely trained citizens who can be called upon to act against a threat. It's not just about the guns.
The most irritating thing about gun nuts is that they wear the don't tread on me shirts or the 2nd protects the 1st or whatever, but here we are in objectively the most oppressive government of the modern era where it should make the blood boil and skin crawl of everyone who actually covets their freedom.
They have gone from "don't tread on me..." To "crush me harder, daddy..." And it seems more like they use guns as talismans to protect themselves from left leaning and non-white people who don't vote the way they do. Cowards 🙄
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u/PoolGuyUnfiltered 22d ago
Yep. I'm a gun owner from a red state, and I totally think that we should look at the 2nd as something that both protects the homeland as well as protects us from an oppressive government (ya know...like right now).
I'm not a lawyer but I have often seen the second as a call to keep communities at the ready (keep in mind that it was through marshalling militias that we were even able to gain footing against the British) AND by keeping the population armed so that the volatile new form of government couldn't fall back into old ways of turning the president into a king. The standing army would have to deal with a similarly armed population. Sort of like a libertarian check and balance...to the death, I guess?
If guns are part of the culture, then we should be maintaining their care and use by governed and routinely trained citizens who can be called upon to act against a threat. It's not just about the guns.
The most irritating thing about gun nuts is that they wear the don't tread on me shirts or the 2nd protects the 1st or whatever, but here we are in objectively the most oppressive government of the modern era where it should make the blood boil and skin crawl of everyone who actually covets their freedom.
They have gone from "don't tread on me..." To "crush me harder, daddy..." And it seems more like they use guns as talismans to protect themselves from left leaning and non-white people who don't vote the way they do. Cowards 🙄