“That was a new and deeply disturbing line of thinking,” said Ari Freilich, the California policy director for the Giffords Law Center. Benitez, he said, seemed to suggest that the 2nd Amendment protects the right of “average people in a civilian militia to make war against their government.” [More]
Yeah, that's the idea. And seeing as how it was one of the selling points for garnering support for the Constitution, there's nothing new about it:
Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger.
As much as some rage against it, the creation doesn't get to call the shots for the Creator.
And it beats getting loaded into cattle cars, Ari.
[Via Michael G]
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“That was a new and deeply disturbing line of thinking,” said Ari Freilich, the California policy director for the Giffords Law Center. Benitez, he said, seemed to suggest that the 2nd Amendment protects the right of “average people in a civilian militia to make war against their government.”
No! Not to make war against our government -- against your government.
We have the right from our Creator to defend ourselves against the domestic enemy who have subverted what used to be our government.
When the enemy takes over our government - all three branches -- we have a duty to reclaim it as ours.
Our 'servants' can NOT disarm us!
“If we take that seriously, then there’s no limiting principle on the types of firearms that people should be allowed to possess, including tanks, anti-aircraft missiles and machine guns,” Freilich said.
Well, actually, yes!
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." -- Tench Coxe
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