re: #62 A Mom Anon
OK,so isn’t the actual purpose of the 2nd Amendment to provide for a militia to put down insurrection AGAINST the government? Because that was what I was taught in history and government classes. It’s not at all to fight the tyranny they keep railing against. I can’t figure out to this minute what the fuck they’re talking about because they obviously have not read a single damned document they hold sacred.
In fairness, one of the original reasons was to be armed against a tyrannical government. While there are a lot of sources, the frequently mentioned Federalist Paper #46 by Publius (aka Madison) is fairly clear. Unfortunately for the people using it, they haven’t read the full argument.
See, #46 says that the arguments against the constitution by the anti-federalists are silly, because the individual states will always have power to oppose the federal government. Obviously, he says, no intelligent public will be so foolish as to let the federal government establish a large standing army, and for this reason the respective states can form much larger militias from their armed populaces and oppose the federal government.
Yeah, really.
The armed people, by the way, are to rally with their neighbors to oppose State tyranny, their STATE government to oppose federal tyranny, and their FEDERAL government to oppose external tyranny.
That ship sailed back in the late 1860s.