GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Donovan]

That's a somewhat naive interpretation of the intent of the founders, almost as big a disservice as the interpretation that says the second amendment is a free pass to make everyone walk around like the main character in Call of Duty. The second amendment made no limits to guns or the technology at which they had to hold themselves. It was the assertion of an occupied country that it had the right and responsibility to maintain its own military force and standing militia. In short, we were demanding the right to self-govern with potential for military defense. And it was in direct response to one of the charges leveled against the colonies, that the act of forming a standing army was treason against the crown. The right of individual to stockpile to the teeth really had fuckall to do with it. The absolute truth is, much of the Constitution was framed to be a defense of our actions IN CASE WE FAILED or the fledgling country collapsed. Most of the founding fathers faced death if England came back or got the upper hand; they were preparing their argument for the rest of the world, because much of it was drafted while war was still going on.