Wild Revolution

second amendment was made during the revolution times and wild savage Indians.do we need it in modern times.?

Public Comments

1. everybody trying to change the constitution.whats wrong with you.you trying to make us comunizum country or what?change this change that.next thing you know one thing leads to another and boom no more constitution.that means free speech.SO SHUT UP ALREADY
2. You could apply that argument to the first amendment as well. But more importantly the Second Amendment wasn't about duck-hunting or Indian 'management'. It was about self-defense on individual and collective levels. And as much as I would like to believe there are no "savages" around any more, recent tragic events indicate otherwise. Like any police officer will tell you, "we show up after the crime happens."
3. As much as I would like to say no , the answer is yes ! The only way to ensure we remain a democracy is to have the ability to defend it. As much as we would like to think not , there are those both internally and externally that would end our democracy if they could. Our ability to rise up against our own government if necessary is a last safeguard that our founding fathers built into the constitution. That being said , I would also add that congress rightly has an ability and an obligation to regulate the types of arms available and who may purchase them. It is this failing that has brought the 2nd amendment into disrepute !!
4. Yes. The founding fathers were concerned that any future government in the U.S. may become just like the British government, that is, controlling/dictating to the people instead of the people controlling the government. Kind of hard for any government to dictate/control the people when the people are armed. Look at what has happened to people in different countries such as Germany, Russia and more recently, China (Tinnian Square) when the people are unarmed.
5. In my opinion, yes. We as Americans have the right to protect ourselves as few other countries do. The restriction of arms in other countries exists for better control of the populous. Our government sees no need to control the rights of dutiful citizens. Gun control takes guns away from good people and emboldens criminals. And the gun control we have in place now doesn't even work! Look at the massacre NIU. Illinois has some of the most restrictive, and damn near unconstitutional gun laws in the union, and the attacker got his arms LEGALLY! Background checks should be enough. If you have a mental deficiency or disorder, I'm sorry, you don't get a gun. If you have a violent past or you are an ex-convict, I'm sorry, you don't get a gun. If you want to protect your family from the ex-cons and mentally deranged people that could hurt them and you pass all the tests, I would be a son of a bitch to tell you you don't have the right to do that. The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing.
6. The purpose of the second amendment was not to allow the citizenry to augment the army, it was to allow the citizenry protection FROM the army! All the founding fathers came from countries ruled by kings, princes, and things of this nature. All these tyrants had a very important rule: ordinary people were NOT allowed to have weapons! Only aristocrats (who supported the royalty) were deemed trustworthy enough to have weapons. That's why you see movies where the ordinary people are armed with pitchforks, scythes and shovels. That's all they had! The army, with its' modern firearms, can easily quell a popular uprising when ordinary people are thus armed. It's easy. The US founding fathers wanted to make sure that Americans always had the means to resist their government. Experience and History (which leaders used to actually learn!) had taught the founding fathers that the government would eventually get so full of itself that it would begin to forget that the power to rule is from the consent of the people. It would begin to represent not the people who enable the government, other powers, other people. The US founding fathers felt so strongly about the ability to resist the government that they made the freedom to bear arms second in the Bill of Rights, right after freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly. "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamine Franklin
7. The second amendment was primarily intended to prevent attack from within, rather than from foreign armies. Yes it used to help and was essential, but in the modern day the second amendment is there to prevent bad government. Now a government such as bush's which has no problems invading iraq, and locking people up under a new status which leaves them without anything, is a big reason why the 2A is very important for the US.