2nd Amendment

[dw1911]

At the time of our Constitution, we had just won our independence, violating all the rules of winning, refusing to line up toe to toe face to face with the greatest Army in the world, and instead, we used our wits, our wisdom, we knew we were the weaker, and we refused to lose.



While Britain used muskets, we used rifles, and we shot them a hundred yards and more before they could even expect to get decent aim. They shot at all of us, we shot their officers and NCO's, knowing well, we could fight as individuals, because of our personal independence, they were a machine, which didn't work when the head was cut off.
We are free and independent because we, the "mere colonists" chose to win, not to fight their battle.
Our founders knew the few cannon, the tons of powder and ball, the tons of canister shot, shrapnel and chai...n shot, everything we had at those two armories, at Lexington and at Concord, were at best, a candle to the sun, but we had decided our lives were worth nothing in chains, and everything if we were free.



That second amendment was the "enumeration" of what we knew to be our Natural Right to not only have "life" as a right, but of the full absolute Right to keep that life by defending it, in war, in the wilderness, and just as equally, in any jungle Man makes as well.
If we don't have the "Unalienable right to life", we are not free. If we have such a right, how is it "unalienable" if we don't have the full and complete right to its absolute defense? The establishment of Endowed or Natural Rights is by the force of reason, to quote Orianna Fallaci, the fact we all are born absolutely without a chance of living, but we are in the arms of our mother and father makes every person born equal.
Having established absolute equality across the board by equal status at birth, we have the right to life, or no one does. Being born is the beginning of this right, and the security our family gives us, with the full right to kill to keep our infant selves alive is beyond any reasoned doubt.
If this must be true, how can we not have the absolute right to continue that defense of our life, when we are both capable and responsible?
If we are willing to deny anyone their absolute right to life at any time, for any reason, how can we ever hold that right as our own? We fight a group of people who recognize only the force of power as legitimate, and against such, reason has no force.



The world has never been absent such, is not the story of Cain and Able the fact of our right to life?
That we even must argue over this shows the evil intent which is so common, and the reason we must secure our rights, by force when necessary.