ND AMENDMENT, Whats Its Purpose?
It is clear from the statements of the founders of our country that the second amendment was intended for private citizens to own weapons including firearms to protect themselves from the government if that ever became necessary. I realize that many of my friends in the Democratic Party and some of my friends in the Republican party say the purpose of that amendment was only to protect the right of Americans to own firearms to hunt animals for food. They often then go on to say that with our modern economy and the social security system and the welfare system that it is no longer necessary to hunt animals for food and they conclude that therefore the second amendment is an outdated anachronism. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the Soviets were reprted to have rejected the possibility of ever invading the United States because of the large number of people with firearms. If an enemy had successfully invaded the United States, the milliions of Americans with firearms wou
The second amendment is what insures we can have the 1st amendment….. Sorry Champ…you’re wrong.. “Court dumps D.C. gun ban Federal appeals judges’ opinion declares 2nd Amendment grants individual right.” In a major decision addressing interpretation of the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court today overturned the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, declaring the constitutional right to bear arms is not limited to militias as the city had argued. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTI… The majority opinion in the 2-1 decision said activities protected by the Second Amendment “are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual’s enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued intermittent enrollment in the militia.” The judges also ruled unconstitutional the city’s requirement that registered firearms be kept unloaded, disassembled and under trigger lock.
