{"id":14572,"date":"2013-09-29T21:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T01:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2013-09-29T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T01:32:44","slug":"how-fake-2nd-amendment-history-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/29\/how-fake-2nd-amendment-history-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fake 2nd Amendment History Kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Consortium New<\/em>s has the article, How Fake 2nd Amendment History Kills<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The whole idea of the Constitution \u2013 with its mix of voting, elected representatives and checks and balances \u2013 was to create a political structure that made violence unnecessary. As the Preamble states, two key goals were to \u201cpromote the general Welfare\u201d and to \u201cinsure domestic Tranquility.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, the Framers weren\u2019t encouraging violent uprisings against the republic that they were founding. To the contrary, they characterized violence against the constitutional system as \u201ctreason\u201d in Article III, Section 3. They also committed the federal government to protect each state from \u201cdomestic Violence,\u201d in Article IV, Section 4.<\/p>\n

And one of the first uses of the new state militias formed under the Second Amendment and the Militia Acts was for President Washington to lead a federalized force of militiamen against the Whiskey Rebellion, a tax revolt, in western Pennsylvania in 1794.<\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s true that many Americans owned a musket or rifle in those early years especially on the frontier, regulations on munitions were still common in cities where storing of gunpowder, for instance, represented a threat to the public safety. As the nation spread westward, so did common-sense restrictions on gun violence. Sheriffs in some of the wildest of Wild West towns enforced gun bans that today would prompt a recall election financed by the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n

This history was well understood both by citizens and courts. For generations, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Second Amendment as a collective right, allowing Americans to participate in a \u201cwell-regulated Militia,\u201d not as an individual right to buy the latest weaponry at a gun show or stockpile a military-style arsenal in the basement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article addresses the issue that many gun rights activists claim is the reason why the Second Amendment is important.\u00a0 They feel the need to be armed in case they must rise up against a tyranical government that takes over this country.<\/p>\n

They claim that if we want to change what the Second Amendment says, we ought to pass a Constitutional Amendment.<\/p>\n

The above article says<\/p>\n

In the late Eighteenth Century, the meaning of \u201cbearing\u201d arms also referred to a citizen being part of a militia or army<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is the reason we must argue over history.\u00a0 If the Second Amendment only recognizes the bearing of arms in a “well regulated militia”, then it is up to the gun rights advocates to pass a Constitutional Amendment to change what the Constitution says about this issue.<\/p>\n

Of course there is always the problem of our side finding rights implied by the Constitution that were never intended.\u00a0 Although there is a difference between a\u00a0 right that was never explicitly considered, right to privacy and therefore abortion, versus a right that was considered and rejected under the meaning that existed of words when the words were written..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Consortium News has the article, How Fake 2nd Amendment History Kills. The whole idea of the Constitution \u2013 with its mix of voting, elected representatives and checks and balances \u2013 was to create a political structure that made violence unnecessary. As the Preamble states, two key goals were to \u201cpromote the general Welfare\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14575,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}