Importance of the Second Amendment

Why is the second amendment important?

The second amendment is important because if some terrorists attack people anyone in the country can protect or defend themselves with their own guns. If people were not allowed to own a gun a lot of them might get killed. The greatest purposes served is self-defence against a common criminal, and ensuring the safety of our rights against an overbearing government or tyrannical ruler.

What are the Federalist Papers and why are they important to the issue of the Second Amendment?

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays published in late 1777 and early 1778 by John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, all using the pseudonym Publius, explaining, expounding and seeking to persuade New York to ratify, the Constitution. To our knowledge, they have nothing whatsoever to do with the 2nd amendment because that was written by the first congress, after ratification, in 1789.

Why are the amendments important?

The amendments are important because each amendment literally becomes part of the United States Constitution. There are 27 amendments.

Without the people themselves owning their own guns and ammunition, the states would never have been able to form a militia — had the states not been able to form a militia, the United States would have never been born.

The founders knew the moment the state controls the ability of the citizenry to rebel and fight back, that would signal the end of the republic. They also knew that the right to protect one’s family is a natural right — given to us by birth from Nature’s God — they simply enshrined this universal truth in our constitution so the government, of the people, could never infringe upon it.

How is the Second Amendment important to the US?

Would be most important in times of Political unrest. People may be headed for that. A revolution in the United States, in a lifetime, is very possible.

"About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these

Nations always progressed through the following sequence

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 per cent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase."

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