The founding fathers designed the Constitution to deal with the eternal truth that national government USUALLY accumulate and abuse power and wanted the citizenry to have the ability to resist threats to their liberties. There is no mention nor even spirit in the language of the Constitution or Federalist Papers that law-abiding citizens be limited to weapons inferior to that of the military. There is AMPLE evidence that the founders wanted the citizenry to be able to DEFEAT a regular army (not to mention the paramilitaries of the blue windbreaker agencies FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS, etc. whose very existence would have chapped their @ss) if used to infringe on civil liberties. If you find such language, please feel free to share it.
Amen!
Government excess is happening before our eyes, but the “supposed” fourth leg of our democracy, the liberal progressive media, ignores this fact.
We are doomed if this willful blindness and the liberal progressive indoctrination of our youth continues unabated.
Gotta love these decrepit old high court judges willing to let the cat out of the bag, or, as it were, freely point out and discuss the elephant in the room that their fellow radicals want desperately to ignore!
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Remember Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s similar “senior moment” in 2009, astonishingly admitting the truth about the pro-abort movement? ( When she said she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”)
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Well, here we go again!
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John Paul Stevens:
Repeal the Second Amendment
New York Times
March 27, 2018
JOHN PAUL STEVENS
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“Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.
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“That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.
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“Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.”