Are You Concerned About Your Constitutional Rights Being Taken?

I'm thinking some people in this thread are just trolling. The Constitution is permissive, meaning it can only grant power to the federal government. The first 10 amendments were amending the federal powers by LIMITING them. There is a big difference between organized and unorganized militias. Some people might think the national guard is a militia, but legally, it's just another federal organization. Some states still have organized militias (Biggest one I can think of that is often used is Texas), but an unorganized militia is generally every able body man who knows how to use a rifle. Some older state constitutions elaborate this. Georgia, in particular, every county has a white pillar centrally located in the county where the unorganized militias are supposed to muster in time of war.

Further more, the Federalist Papers elaborate on what terms and other concepts meant. The Constitution is over two centuries old, many words have changed their meanings over time. As far as arms go, we used state of the art weaponry to fight the rebellion against the crown. To simply think that only common men and women were ONLY allowed to have muskets and pistols is completely false and inaccurate. Common citizens had cannons, sailing ships of war, and our Congress can STILL issue Letters or Marque, commissioning private citizens to wage war against other countries.

 

The 2nd amendment was to ensure a revolution by the people could be done again, if needed. Anyone remember the Articles of Confederation? We screwed up as a country on creating a federal government, so the States got back together to start over, and it still works (subject to opinion). Our current federal government can still be undone (legally), if the States so do choose. Our federal government is NOT absolute.

As far as America having a 2nd American Revolution, it cannot be done by service members; otherwise, this new government would have zero credibility like some third world country military coup. It has to be done by the ordinary citizens and veterans of the states. It is a government of The People, by the People, thus it has to be the People. That is why every American citizen needs to be armed, so they can abolish their tyrant governments if they so choose, by force if necessary.