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Your interpretation of militia is a common misconception but the framers were pretty clear what they meant by the militia. >Rep. Tenche Coxe of Pennsylvania: “

Your interpretation of militia is a common misconception but the framers were pretty clear what they meant by the militia. >Rep. Tenche Coxe of Pennsylvania: “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788. >Thomas Jefferson:“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”, Proposal for a Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950) > George Mason: “I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” (Elliott, Debates, 425-426) https://www.quora.com/What-do-the-terms-%E2%80%98arms%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98well-regulated%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98militia%E2%80%99-mean-in-the-Second-Amendment https://www.quora.com/What-do-the-terms-%E2%80%98arms%E2%80%... I believe it is a human right which comes necessarily from your right to self defense.

scamwich 8y ago
Even if overthrowing a government is impossible, making the police who enforce unjust laws hesitate before, lets say, rounding up millions of people for deportation, that's a good brake. You slow down the bad processes just long enough to survive until the next election, when all the combined reactance against the unjust government can flush it clean. If the police have no fear and don't hesitate enough to prioritize what they enforce, they will stretch a tyrannical law to its conclusion. I see it like this: If your state passes a law allowing ICE agents to come into schools and take kids with little to no justification, and having armed teachers can make them hesitate enough to only invade 3 schools instead of 4, that's a minor success. Just enough of a brake to spare one immigrant family long enough for Trump to be ousted.

scamwich 8y ago

Even if overthrowing a government is impossible, making the police who enforce unjust laws hesitate before, lets say, rounding up millions of people for deportation, that's a good brake. You slow down the bad processes just long enough to survive until the next election, when all the combined reactance against the unjust government can flush it clean. If the police have no fear and don't hesitate enough to prioritize what they enforce, they will stretch a tyrannical law to its conclusion. I see it like this: If your state passes a law allowing ICE agents to come into schools and take kids with little to no justification, and having armed teachers can make them hesitate enough to only invade 3 schools instead of 4, that's a minor success. Just enough of a brake to spare one immigrant family long enough for Trump to be ousted.