Quote:I'm familiar with the whiskey rebellion, and the fact that Washington didn't want a nation where every couple of years someone was marching the capital to change regimes. No one wants that, and yet Washington and the founders still found it important to keep the balance of an armed populace to an armed government. The idea or the concept of the 2nd Amendment is not dead or outdated, in fact I'd argue it's more alive now than it was even 50 years ago.


You can regulate all you want so long as you don't alter the purpose of the right. And the purpose of the right is clear, an armed populace to counter an armed government. So we probably already have to many regulations on firearms, the solution isn't more of them, that would only further erode the concept of a counter balance of power.

Well, this is interesting... so from your perspective you see the 2nd more as a collective right, in so much as it's main intention is to protect against federal tyranny. Would you say that is correct?


I see the 2nd I terms of individual rights to protect one's home, family, and person from criminals...


An argument can be made for the merits of both out points.


However, would not common sense and the reality of our standing military make your position impossible. Arms no longer are a viable means of protecting against a tyrannical US government.


Imagine if Dr. King decided he and Malcolm X would organize all African Americans and supporters of civil rights to pick up their arms to fight against segregation. It would be a blood bath.


In the 18th century, when arms of the government and the arms of the people were the same, the collective concept of the 2nd as the founders would perceive them, would be valid.


But as the standing army has held, and as the technology of professional warfare had exponentially advanced, this collective concept no longer has any true meaning.


While I appreciate your ideology, I just don't find the logic in it anymore. In fact, dr. King's approach to revolution and changing the course of a tyrannical government is the only modern way of creating effective change.


That's my view on it...

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