Second Amendment 101 -
"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."
This is the easy part...We've all seen this many times, but...
If you go back and look at some of the state constitutions and notice the subtle differences sometimes in the substitutions of the part about, "security of a free State"...
I propose this for further reflection...When we look at the snippet there, some "states" in our Union refer to this as, "security of THE State"...This could not be farther from the original point...
The State is not the state, as in a geographical bounded area with lines drawn on a map...The State are the people! And the people therefore have been inalienably given the right to be "free"...
Thus, it could have been written, but when the intent was to ensure the security of a free state, it was meant to be the security of a free people...
How does this apply here???
Well, when you are walking down the street with your dogs in tow...And oppression gives your freedom a "challenge"...You are certainly given the ability to either be enslaved to that oppression, or fight it as a free person, because your security is an inalienable right endowed upon you by your creator...
It really is that simple...
The man who shot those criminals should not be given a medal for protecting himself...He should be commended for protecting our right to be secure and be free men...
