Gun Control Now - Fact Driven Rant

[sarisataka]

24. The founders had just finished

leading a successful armed rebellion against their rightful King. The impetus for the rebellion centered around taxation.
While the founders had clear ideas as to how the People's rights should not be abused they could envision futuer leaders who would not be so noble. Even among themselves they had disputes about limits of power.

IMO the 2A is included as a fail-safe against such a future need. There are laws against treason so it is clear they did not intend government overthrow to be a yearly event, but by the 2A they authorized such action in extremis.

There are other implications based on the language of the Constitution against a standing army. That we have chose to ignore their advice about an army and have not availed ourselves of our right of rebellion does not change what their meaning was.

Could we contact the founders via Ouija board I think they would admire our ability to maintain the rule of law and effect change through elections. They would also ask why we have not rebelled against the government several times already...