is the right to bear arms meant as a protection from our government as well as invading forces?

Question

does that justify public ownership of assault rifles, and other weapons of war?

Answer 1

Yes it was.
A gun is a gun, what should it matter what kind it is.

Answer 2

Yes it does.

The primary intent of the 2nd Amendment was to ensure that the citizenry could resist a move toward tyranny by force if necessary.

To suggest that that could somehow be possible with single shot rifles and .22 pistols when the government troops have assault rifles and tanks is ridiculous.

The 2nd doesn't say "keep and bear certain types of guns that the government isn't afraid of", it just say "keep and bear arms".

To JRome - your position is a joke. It was fine for citizens to have only muskets when the governments troops ALSO only had muskets. For the armed citizenry to act as a meaningful brake on any government excesses, that citizenry MUST e able to stand up to the governments troops - and that does NOT mean "hunting rifles".

Richard

Answer 3

The original right to bear arms was when only musketts existed and it was meant to prevent gov't from bullying the citizens. It most definitely does not justify ownership of assault weapons of today and the fact that lawmakers on the Republican side site the 2nd Amendment really sickens me. The NRA is the biggest lobbyist in the country and they continue to pay off the GOP. It's digusting that nobody has the balls to challenge them and do what's right. Tell Charlton Heston and his boys to shove their rifles up their azz.
Btw, I am a Republican. I have no problem with hanguns and hunting rifles but that's all. Everything else really needs to be BANNED like yesterday! The founding fathers must be rolling in their graves.

Answer 4

no offense jrome but uhh...being a republican u should be much more knowledgeable..the NRA is a lobbyist that actually fights for our rights to bear arms however they are not actively seeking for us to own assault rifles altho i think it should be legal and anyone who uses them against another person for anything other good reason plain and simple should be put to death period...no wasting our taxes on keeping there dumbasses alive... just get it over with and get rid of the mentally incompetent...in any case if our government keeps going the way it is you'll be wishing we could own assault rifles because they'll be coming for our guns 1st... its way too hard to rule a person with a gun versus ruling a person trying to hug you...the huggers will just follow what they are told to do....we know this already....I'm not an advocate of owning assault rifles altho id like to however if i ever used it against anyone wrongfully then i should be taken off the planet

Answer 5

But here is the kicker, it's 2007 and NO ONE WOULD INVADE AMERICA. They'd have to be crazy & it wouldn't last because the second they even thought about it, I'm sure someone would have already pressed the magic button. I don't think you or myself need a M-16 or whatever.

Our gov't is full of lazy bureaucrats; none of them are going to turn on us and try to take away all of our rights. Oh wait...hmm, I guess it doesn't matter that Bush could get my Amazon reading list...nothing to hide ;)

Answer 6

1 - Yup, that's it alright.

2 - Yup, you got that one, too. And the really cool thing about this fact is that no one is going to MAKE you own one. You only have one if you want one and are willing to pay for it.

Answer 7

yea