No the second amendment was put in place to protect OUR government from outside forces, hence the word militia... Many of the founding fathers did not approve of having a standing Army..

No the second amendment was put in place to protect OUR government from outside forces, hence the word militia

That's not correct Retread. We can debate the meaning of the 2nd Amendment all day or you can just read what the people who wrote it thought about it.

The 2nd amendment was written for two reasons: 1) protect ourselves in the event OUR government turned on us and 2) protect ourselves in the event our government was over run by outside forces. (think of the movie Red Dawn)

Certainly they figured if they called up an army, most of the soldier’s would bring their own weapons. As late as the civil war when Grant accepted surrender, he let the South keep their weapons.
No doubt things have changed as a few citizens could never combat a fully armed modern army. however, as we've seen in Afghanistan, armed citizens can hold off an entire nation when motivated.

I hate that argument.
The government has much more powerful weaponry. Then what is everyone so afraid of?


--Steve

I am correct in what I said about the 2nd amendment.

Paraquat wrote on 03/01/13 at 06:17:04:


No one from the govt is afraid you're going to overthrow them ... They are afraid you'd shoot your neighbor ... or worse yet, your kid finds it and shoots another kid. The govt isn't trying to save itself by gun control. They are trying to stop one trigger happy crackhead from blowing away 30 people @ the convenience store to steal 10 bucks from the register.

Cool.
Srinath.

Retread wrote on 03/01/13 at 09:59:48:



Oh yea ... that will be de-cried by the NRA and the republicons as a "goverment take over of the second amendment".

And it still doesn't address the issue of one person's guns being "co-opted" by someone else cos they leave it in easy access.

Cool.
Srinath.

Without intending to insult any of our members in certain parts of the country, marriage licenses were designed to do a few things, all good:
Frist, to make sure that couples are of the required age.
Second, to try to keep forks growing in family trees.  As Jeff Foxworthy says, you know you're a redneck if your family tree has no forks.
And third, in the days of rampant venerial diseases that weren't treatable, to get the couple a blood test, but this requirement has fairly well faded away.
Sorry JOG, no grand conspiracy here - just good reasons.