With all the controversy over legislating gun laws it is worth revisiting why the 2nd Amendment exists:
Dr. Suzanna Gratia had both of her parents executed in a 1991 massacre along with 21 other people in a Texas restaurant. A gunman plowed his pickup truck through the restaurant window and then opened fire with a Glock 17 pistol and later a Ruger P89. Gratia’s father charged the gunman and was mortally wounded by a shot to the chest. His wife refused to flee and crawled over to her husband of 47 years at which point she was shot in the head while cradling her husband’s body.
Dr. Gratia relates that she had a pistol less than 100 yards away in her car, but due to concealed weapons laws in Texas at the time, was not allowed to carry the firearm on her person. Without that law, she says, her parents and dozens of others in that restaurant could have survived.
Addressing the Texas legislature, Dr. Gratia dismisses some common beliefs that firearms are intended for sport, and says why the 2nd Amendment really exists:
“I’m not going to make very many friends saying this, but it’s about our rights, all of our rights, to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.”
The text of the Second Amendment:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
This is a statement relinquishing the federal government from the ability to regulate weapons. There is controversy over interpretation-many feel as though the term “militia” implies that the federal government has authority to regulate firearms amongst individuals, but not state militias.
The purpose of the law is to restrict the federal government from regulating weapons, period. Militias were, and in many cases are, comprised of individuals who retain their own weapons. The intent of the law is to restrict federal authority and provide a check on power-the people are supposed to maintain the right to physically remove federal authority should they find it unacceptable.
At the time of the creation of the law states maintained full sovereignty, exercising greater latitude of authority than the federal government. It was never envisioned that states would be subordinate to the central authority. Now they are.
After the civil war beat states into submission, and nearly an hundred years of accepting federal handouts, states no longer retain comparable authority to limit federal power. The final check on the central bureaucrats has always been, and still remains, the people. As such, it is perverse to think the federal government has the right to disarm its populace.
In order to remain free, a people must have the right to self-armament with weapons that are at least comparable to that which federal troops possess.
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