I don't think you're just "looking" deeper into it. It seems like you're "reading" things into it that are not there.AEA wrote:Looking deeper into that quote, I believe this is a prime example of the "theory" that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a GOD GIVEN RIGHT. Otherwise, how would the people be capable of their revolutionary right?KBCraig wrote:With a total lack of irony, Abraham Lincoln delivered this as part of his first inaugral address (4 March 1861):
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Lincoln doesn't mention God or God given rights. Just constitutional rights.
Guns might be one way of driving a revolution, but they are far from the only way. Look at how the people did away with the communist governments of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for instance. They sure didn't use guns.