Friday, February 04, 2011

An Easy Understanding of the 2nd Amendment

An Easy Understanding of the 2nd Amendment

Seeing recent (today) Facebook gun owner posts, I figured this to be an appropriate rant.

The 2nd amendment to the US Constitution simply states: 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.

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The founders were quite scared of a standing army in the US; they wanted the states to form local militias that would be activated when necessary. In order to maintain this idea of not having a standing army, we needed the right of the people to keep an bear arms.

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