When the 2nd amendment was first written, states were fearful that they would lose their power and thus created a set of rules to restrict the power of the federal government.
It started with the first one...Congress shall make no law.....binding the federal government from establishing official religion, though they the state government could establish an official religion if they so desire. Now this of course change after the civil war with the passing of the 14th amendment.
The next one they made was to protect their states, in the event they needed to fight a war against any enemy including the federal government aka the US Army.
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.
Being a fan of the late Justice Scalia, I often interpret the constituion based on originalism.
This clause meant that if California were to call us up to join the militia, they were hopeful that we would already have arms in our homes to defend the state from the federal government.
Realistically, this meant that we need to have weapons that can match that of the US Army. In the 18th century, a musket would be fine enough. But in the 21st century, arms should include tanks, fighter jets, submarines in our home garages for us to have any realistic chance of taking on the US Army if our state required us to do so.
There is currently a conspiracy to keep us armed only to the point of a hunting gun or a machine gun. Arms has to include tanks and missiles for our potential militia should the California government call us up to defend the state.
It started with the first one...Congress shall make no law.....binding the federal government from establishing official religion, though they the state government could establish an official religion if they so desire. Now this of course change after the civil war with the passing of the 14th amendment.
The next one they made was to protect their states, in the event they needed to fight a war against any enemy including the federal government aka the US Army.
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.
Being a fan of the late Justice Scalia, I often interpret the constituion based on originalism.
This clause meant that if California were to call us up to join the militia, they were hopeful that we would already have arms in our homes to defend the state from the federal government.
Realistically, this meant that we need to have weapons that can match that of the US Army. In the 18th century, a musket would be fine enough. But in the 21st century, arms should include tanks, fighter jets, submarines in our home garages for us to have any realistic chance of taking on the US Army if our state required us to do so.
There is currently a conspiracy to keep us armed only to the point of a hunting gun or a machine gun. Arms has to include tanks and missiles for our potential militia should the California government call us up to defend the state.
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