Comments on: The Revolutionary Early American “Context” of the 2nd Amendment http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/10/27/the-revolutionary-early-american-context-of-the-2nd-amendment/ Arizona Politics, News, Commentary and Information with a Blatantly Conservative Worldview Presented by an Alliance of Writers, Activists, Consultants and Government Insiders. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wanumba http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/10/27/the-revolutionary-early-american-context-of-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-210455 wanumba Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:52:12 +0000 http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=5610#comment-210455 It's interesting that today politicians scurry and flutter about with the Constitutionality of "assault" weapons, rifles and handguns in the hands of the private citizens when 200 years ago private citizens owned 20 cannon warships, the powder, crews, ball, muskets, cutlasses and tomahawks to go with them. The "historical context" of the prevailing attitude of self-defense and citizen militias of that period goes much beyond Letters of Marque and reprisal, and lightyears past the usual offered up example of the needs of the "rural homesteader," used expressly to argue that the right to bear arms is no longer valid, that the Second Amendment was only influenced by colonial homesteading wilderness needs, not by anything else. . None of this is taught, mentioned, alluded to, hinted at in American education - for at least 40 years - a big blank in American history. Omitted. An inconvenient truth. It’s interesting that today politicians scurry and flutter about with the Constitutionality of “assault” weapons, rifles and handguns in the hands of the private citizens when 200 years ago private citizens owned 20 cannon warships, the powder, crews, ball, muskets, cutlasses and tomahawks to go with them.

The “historical context” of the prevailing attitude of self-defense and citizen militias of that period goes much beyond Letters of Marque and reprisal, and lightyears past the usual offered up example of the needs of the “rural homesteader,” used expressly to argue that the right to bear arms is no longer valid, that the Second Amendment was only influenced by colonial homesteading wilderness needs, not by anything else. .
None of this is taught, mentioned, alluded to, hinted at in American education – for at least 40 years – a big blank in American history. Omitted.
An inconvenient truth.

]]> By: JPJ http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/10/27/the-revolutionary-early-american-context-of-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-210352 JPJ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:22:26 +0000 http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=5610#comment-210352 This has more to do with the Congressional power to issue letters of marque and reprisal than it has to do with the second amendment. This has more to do with the Congressional power to issue letters of marque and reprisal than it has to do with the second amendment.

]]> By: Veritas Vincit http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/10/27/the-revolutionary-early-american-context-of-the-2nd-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-210263 Veritas Vincit Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:17:18 +0000 http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=5610#comment-210263 They didn't trust government but recognized that some limited government was a necessary evil. They wished the citizenry to be armed should government become a burden that wouldn't go away. Bottom line? Armed we are citizens, unarmed we are subjects. Think about it that way. They didn’t trust government but recognized that some limited government was a necessary evil.

They wished the citizenry to be armed should government become a burden that wouldn’t go away.

Bottom line? Armed we are citizens, unarmed we are subjects. Think about it that way.

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