The Second Amendment and Liberal Logic

According to Constitutional scholars at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), James Madison’s first draft of the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms read, “The Right of the People to Bear Arms Shall Not be Infringed; A Well-Armed and Regulated Militia Being the Best Security of a Free Country,” but was later reversed for clarity. It read, “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.” The meaning is clear and is not subject to gray areas created by the specious logic of liberals who want to disarm hard-working American citizens. 

This Amendment proposed by James Madison in 1791 gave Americans the freedom and power to counteract a dictatorial Federal government by allowing them to own firearms if only muskets and flintlock pistols. In drafting the Virginia Constitution in 1776 Jefferson wrote, “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his lands and tenements.” The language and meaning could not be clearer.  And considering the liberal push to disarm Americans, blaming the weapon instead of the criminal, Franklin’s dictum that “they who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 

Hence, the present Congressional gun bills being considered by liberal do-gooders are intended to give the Central government power over a disarmed populace. Congressman Raskin, who often cites the mythical “separation of church and state” in the Constitution, recently used his liberal logic to refer to a “government militia,” the opposite of what Jefferson, Madison, and Patrick Henry meant when they wrote, “Right of the People to arm itself against the threat of “tyranny Shall Not be Infringed.” 

This was the original meaning before Lincoln and the “radical Republicans” created a centralized tyranny over the States, thereby destroying States’ rights and the Framer’s notion of “concurrent” rule, i.e., having equal authority or jurisdiction. Given the rise in crime in our major cities due to liberal attempts to defund the police, the intent of the Second Amendment, the Right of the People to Bear Arms, is now clearly established in the minds of patriotic Americans, and despite the specious arguments of power-hungry liberals such as Raskin and Nadler that right shall remain.