SouthernBoy
Regular Member
Keep in mind folks that all too often, contemporary thinking gets caught up in ideas and concepts that while in today's climate are sensitive and visceral in nature, were nothing of the sort in the late 1700's when our Bill of Rights was created as a formal document and part of the founding of the nation.
For example, the issues of hunting and self defense as they relate to the Second Amendment. It seems when the need for and reason of the Second Amendment is debated, the arguments of hunting rights and those of self defense most always are raised. But at the time of the founding of the nation, no one in their right mind would have questioned the need for an Article to appear in the Bill of Rights to guarantee these freedoms. Hunting to feed yourself and your family and using your arms to defend both as well was unquestionable and as natural as breathing. Which means that there were other reasons for the inclusion of the Second Amendment. And there were.
The Founders addressed those reasons in their writings on a number of occasions so it is very easy to see what they were thinking with the Second Amendment. And it wasn't hunting or self defense they were concerned about. It was the security of the nation (Note: the word "State" is capitalized) and its several states, AND as a guard against a government gone evil because there is another little-known fact that the Founders gave their American posterity.
We are the only nation in the history of the world that at its founding, a most fundamental right was cast in writing in our founding document that is absolutely imperative for the continuation of a free people. We have the right, the Duty, to alter or abolish our government* through any means when it becomes destructive of our "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". In all of history, this is the core of what makes America so unique.
* (Ref: the Declaration of Independence)
For example, the issues of hunting and self defense as they relate to the Second Amendment. It seems when the need for and reason of the Second Amendment is debated, the arguments of hunting rights and those of self defense most always are raised. But at the time of the founding of the nation, no one in their right mind would have questioned the need for an Article to appear in the Bill of Rights to guarantee these freedoms. Hunting to feed yourself and your family and using your arms to defend both as well was unquestionable and as natural as breathing. Which means that there were other reasons for the inclusion of the Second Amendment. And there were.
The Founders addressed those reasons in their writings on a number of occasions so it is very easy to see what they were thinking with the Second Amendment. And it wasn't hunting or self defense they were concerned about. It was the security of the nation (Note: the word "State" is capitalized) and its several states, AND as a guard against a government gone evil because there is another little-known fact that the Founders gave their American posterity.
We are the only nation in the history of the world that at its founding, a most fundamental right was cast in writing in our founding document that is absolutely imperative for the continuation of a free people. We have the right, the Duty, to alter or abolish our government* through any means when it becomes destructive of our "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". In all of history, this is the core of what makes America so unique.
* (Ref: the Declaration of Independence)
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