Why the second amendment?

This country was founded by righteous treason, in a crucible of violent rebellion. Our Forefather’s had just finished a violent revolution against the world’s greatest military power led by a tyrannical king. That experience formed the mindset regarding the construction of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

What came out of that experience was our Constitution that incorporated the lessons of that rebellion, the need to protect our Faith, that our rights are endowed by a Creator and inalienable, and a sincere and well justified distrust of government. This distrust was expressed by the limitations upon the power of government expressed in the Constitution and by the Bill of Rights. Something that the courts and Congress have since ignored.

Until the SCOTUS decision in Heller, the argument was that the Second Amendment only applied to the organized militia and not to the private citizen. The arguments in Heller were thoroughly researched finding that English Common Law provided for the common man being required to maintain arms for both self-defense and defense of the realm as far back as the 12th century. Heller further found that those firearms in common use could not be banned. The AR15 was such a firearm; there are over 16 million AR15s in private ownership today.

The AR15 is also suitable for militia duty.

For the citizens of the 13 Colonies prior to Independence, it was English law that required them to maintain arms to be used for militia duty against attack by a foreign power (France, Spain) and hostile tribes.

In the discussions and arguments of the Framers one finds distrust of government as a central theme. The smaller colonies were concerned that the larger colonies would exert influence with the new government and have their militias disarmed. Or, that a tyrannical federal government may disarm the state militias in favor of a federal standing army. The overwhelming concern was the power and reach of government.

These concerns are just as valid today, more so, given the rise of Marxist thought within the Democratic Party.

The compromise? Article 1§ 8, and the Second Amendment. Article 1 § 8 provides for an army that has to be re-authorized by Congress every 2 years. The federal government was authorized a standing national militia, which eventually, became the National Guard. The states would provide the officers and manpower, the federal government the discipline and funding.

The keep and bear arms clause of the Second Amendment recognizes the fact of two militias being created. The second militia is the unorganized militia–We the People, all able bodied citizens who are not part of the active duty military, Naval Militia or the National Guard. The Second Amendment insures that the members of the unorganized militia will always be armed. The unorganized militia is the defense against a tyrannical government. This is the motivation behind the clause “ . . . the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

There are two levels of militia. One is federal as described above, and the other is state.

10 USC §311(b) states that the federal militia is comprised of two classes, one is the organized militia consisting of the National Guard and Naval Militia, and the other is the unorganized militia–We the People. The President can call up the federal organized and the federal unorganized militia.

AS 26.05.010(b) defines the two classes of the Alaska state militia. There is a state organized militia comprising the National Guard, the 32 USC §109© Alaska State Defense Force, and the Naval Militia. The state unorganized militia is the rest of us not excused by law.

AS 26.05.110 provides for a governor to call up the state’s unorganized militia.

We the People comprise the unorganized militia, both state and federal.

You want to be “safe”? You have the right to armed self-defense, and you have a duty as a citizen regarding ownership of arms suitable for militia duty.

Politicians who want to disarm the law abiding openly advocate doing so, because we vote; the criminal does not. Their motivation is not safety, it is power. To achieve their Orwellian, Marxist goal, they must disarm the law abiding and end the Constitution. The Second Amendment prevents this from happening.

We are the only people in the world whose freedom and rights are protected by a rule of law and who have the right to armed rebellion against a tyrannical and overreaching government.

We the People, by virtue of the Second Amendment, are the sword against the throat of an encroaching tyranny.