Context of the Second Amendment
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 7 months ago
Tench Coxe, delegate to the continental congress.
The power of the sword, say the minority…, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. 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 has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.
Notice that whatever the minority was saying, whether it be that the right of military weaponry was limited to the state, or that the continental congress should be in control of the militia, or whatever else, they were in the minority. The minority.
This is the context when the second amendment was ratified. End of discussion. This allows for no control over weaponry owned and used by the common man because common men are the soldiers, using every terrible implement in order to ameliorate tyranny.
He should know. He was there. 21st century progressives were not.
On April 10, 2023 at 11:15 pm, Dan said:
Anyone with the IQ of a soap bubble knows what the Second says, what it means and what it was intended for by those who wrote it. The criminal commie left simply does not care. They want us disarmed and they will do anything and everything possible to achieve that goal. The law, the Constitution and the will of the people is irrelevant to them. There can be no compromise with the left, no coexistence. They refuse to accept anything but THEIR total control over everything and everyone.