A Silly Argument: the Second
Amendment Insurrectionist Purpose
Heading of the Bill of Rights from Congress
By Dean Weingarten. Aug 7, 2023
One of the silliest arguments about the purposes of the Second Amendment is put forward this way. The newly formed Constitutional government would never have created an amendment with the purpose of destroying the government just created. Here is an example from the far-left eugeneweekly.com:
That newly created narrative included the supposed purpose of arming citizens in order to enable them to rebel against the very constitutional government which the Founders were establishing with its checks and balances. This despite the Founders having defined treason as taking up arms against that very government.
But this glaring contradiction persisted and found a home within the halls of the Supreme Court, whose collective wisdom may have suffered from the influx of unreported gifts by billionaires to a number of justices weighing in on the question.
The writer does not appear to have read the history of the Revolutionary War, the Federalist Papers, the arguments surrounding the Bill of Rights, the rudiments of the political theories the Constitution is based on, or the Constitution itself. Knowledge of any one of these fields provides ample refutation of the argument above.
One of the principle causes of the Revolutionary war was the attempt by the Government of England, specifically the King, to disarm the American colonists. The proximate start of the war resulted from an attempt by the Crown to confiscate privately and publicly owned weapons, resulting in the battles of Lexington and Concord. During the war, a British minister proposed disarming all the colonists, in perpetuity. Having just defeated a government bent on their disarmament, the successful revolutionaries were not about to grant such a power to the newly formed government of the Constitution.
During the argument about ratification of the Constitution in the Federalist papers, those who were concerned about the centralization of power in the federal government, demanded more checks and balances on the newly formed government.
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