On our Second Amendment
Our Bill of Rights is a very powerful and concise set of ten rules that define the role of the Federal Government, the States and the Citizens. They address the limits of power that the Federal Government can have over the States and over the Citizens. Our founders were well aware of how easy it is for a 'good' government to slip into tyranny.
There is a
discussion over at Oleg Volk's -- here is an excerpt from one of the comments:
The Second Amendment is not a quick word about hunting in between nine other rights that limit government powers. The founders recognized man�s greed for power, and set up balance of power in the Constitution, between the three branches of the federal government, between the federal government and the states, and between government and the people via the Second Amendment. To deter tyranny, people must be able to balance governmental power, and hunting rifles cannot do that. �Assault� is the name of a crime given to inanimate objects by those with an agenda to mislead and bias those who are uneducated about firearms, when they are talking about essentially all semi-automatic firearms, which are 90% of firearms in the United States.
Read
the whole thread.
Posted by DaveH at January 6, 2013 1:14 PM