Why was 2nd amendment written?

[SmarterthanYou]

Actually, no one has been able to definitively answer that question, no Supreme Court, not even Scalia, that is why he skipped over the prefatory clause, so much for his whacky "orginialism" charade

since the courts did not write nor ratify the 2nd Amendment, it isn't their prerogative to define it...........

however, if you'd like to skip the so called 'modern' definition, I refer you to a Senate subcommittee hearing on the 2nd Amendment....

https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html

 

[SmarterthanYou]

It was written to confuse idiots like you that think you are some kind of a militia and that we are still under threat that the King of England is going to attack us again- WHICH WERE THE REAL CONCERNS OF OUR FOREFATHERS WHEN THEY WROTE THAT AMENDMENT!

It was written before we actually created A US Military that replaced militias!

Hey! You asked! I answered!

wrong

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Second Amendment was written because there was no standing army.

As usual, right wingers are 100% ignorant of US history.

wrong

 

[SmarterthanYou]

No, I don’t, but millennials and younger will, it’s coming...

and they can defend themselves with their dildos as we kill them...........or we can actually implement sort of a handmaids tale and just imprison the best looking liberal women to be sex slaves and provide entertainment in our brothels

 

[Phantasmal]

and they can defend themselves with their dildos as we kill them...........or we can actually implement sort of a handmaids tale and just imprison the best looking liberal women to be sex slaves and provide entertainment in our brothels

You’ll be at work and the others will run out of snacks.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

You’ll be at work and the others will run out of snacks.

once you come to my area, i'll be on the line...........and that would mean once you're within 500 yards of me, I have you in my sights and will kill you.

 

[Phantasmal]

once you come to my area, i'll be on the line...........and that would mean once you're within 500 yards of me, I have you in my sights and will kill you.

Well, I wasn’t speaking of me in particular. I have no interest in taking your gun if you aren’t a nutcase and can show proficiency at handling it. Are you afraid you won’t qualify?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Second Amendment was written because there was no standing army.

As usual, right wingers are 100% ignorant of US history.

No, you are. The US has always had a standing army. It was usually small in size. For most of US history, the standing army consisted of 12 to 15 regiments of infantry, 2 to 6 regiments of dragoons or cavalry, and supporting arms like artillery and engineers. One of the largest branches traditionally in the US Army has been Coast Defense. Up through 1945, this was pretty consistently the US Army except in wartime. During a war, the Army expanded massively based on a combination of volunteers and draftees.

The US Navy was kept rather small on the whole more because of parsimony and unwillingness to fund it by Congress than any other reason. In Jefferson's time, a gunboat navy based largely on militia was disastrously tried.

You might also note that the Constitution limits funding of an Army to two years at a time while there is no corresponding limitation on a Navy.

It is you that is 100% ignorant of history here.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Well, I wasn’t speaking of me in particular. I have no interest in taking your gun if you aren’t a nutcase and can show proficiency at handling it. Are you afraid you won’t qualify?

5 time marine corps expert..............pretty sure i'm qualified...........so what you're saying is you're too cowardly to come for my weapon, you'll send hired mercenaries..i.e. cops to come get my weapon????

 

[Phantasmal]

5 time marine corps expert..............pretty sure i'm qualified...........so what you're saying is you're too cowardly to come for my weapon, you'll send hired mercenaries..i.e. cops to come get my weapon????

I don’t own a gun. I don’t do violence. If there are laws passed and you don’t comply, then if you are discovered, you will suffer the consequences, at least let your wife and kids leave the house, okay.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I don’t own a gun. I don’t do violence. If there are laws passed and you don’t comply, then if you are discovered, you will suffer the consequences, at least let your wife and kids leave the house, okay.

there will be no compliance. the best part of it's going to be the look on your face when you realize that i'm just one of thousands...........more cops will die than those of us..........at that point, the best you can hope for is we don't find your identity

 

[Diogenes]

there will be no compliance. the best part of it's going to be the look on your face when you realize that i'm just one of thousands...........more cops will die than those of us..........at that point, the best you can hope for is we don't find your identity

Your terrorist threats have been logged and reported for future action by the appropriate authorities.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Your terrorist threats have been logged and reported for future action by the appropriate authorities.

oh, i'm so scared..............NOT!!!!!!!!

troll

 

[votebiden]

No, you are. The US has always had a standing army. It was usually small in size. For most of US history, the standing army consisted of 12 to 15 regiments of infantry, 2 to 6 regiments of dragoons or cavalry, and supporting arms like artillery and engineers. One of the largest branches traditionally in the US Army has been Coast Defense. Up through 1945, this was pretty consistently the US Army except in wartime. During a war, the Army expanded massively based on a combination of volunteers and draftees.

The US Navy was kept rather small on the whole more because of parsimony and unwillingness to fund it by Congress than any other reason. In Jefferson's time, a gunboat navy based largely on militia was disastrously tried.

You might also note that the Constitution limits funding of an Army to two years at a time while there is no corresponding limitation on a Navy.

It is you that is 100% ignorant of history here.

False.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

False.

you're wrong, as usual. are you the typical democrat? or are you one of the smarter democrats?

 

[Phantasmal]

there will be no compliance. the best part of it's going to be the look on your face when you realize that i'm just one of thousands...........more cops will die than those of us..........at that point, the best you can hope for is we don't find your identity

Seek help, but your big talk, last time there was a revolution, you stayed home.

 

[votebiden]

you're wrong, as usual. are you the typical democrat? or are you one of the smarter democrats?

just shut up. I have contempt for Trump supporters.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Seek help, but your big talk, last time there was a revolution, you stayed home.

ROFL, if you considered that tiny resistance at the bird sanctuary a revolution.............you best prepare yourself in the future for violence you are not going to survive

 

[SmarterthanYou]

just shut up. I have contempt for Trump supporters.

I have contempt for idiots........like you. you have zero facts concerning the history of the constitution, only to what you've been told by the force feeding liberal media...........that will be your undoing

 

[T. A. Gardner]

False.

Then prove it. I used the US Army lineage series as the basis for my comments. What are you basing your position on?

https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/als.html

Particularly:

https://history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-3-1/cmhPub_60-3-1.pdf
https://history.army.mil/books/Lineage/arcav/arcav.htm

You see, I actually am a military historian so I know this stuff quite well.