Most See Gun Rights As Protection Against Tyranny

This Rasmussen poll shows that most citizens understand the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is allow for a means to protect themselves from the government.  No doubt that the bureaucrats would have a different opinion, but being in the Constitution, a right granted by god, a obstruction that only can be removed by circumvention.

We have spent some time in the last weeks watching Piers Morgan, and his relentless application of hyperbole to cast guns rights supporters as selfish and worse demonic.  A common tactic being to ask a conservative if the freedom to protect themselves means they have the right to defend themselves with any weapon.  A second tactic is to set up the polarization of those who care for victims and those that are selfish with their pet Amendment.

The first of these tactics I thought about a great deal. My conclusion is this, the founders left the terms "arms" vague, because they understood that types evolve over time, therefore "arms" available should be equivalent  to the "arms" might by employed by the government against the individual.  By that I do not mean that nuclear equipment should be rightfully owned by individual, bombs are only, when employed, offensive weapons used in an unfocused manner intended as much to destroy property as life. 

If we get to the point where the government has the notion to apply weapons of mass destruction against its own citizens, the 2nd Amendment would already have become history. 

65% See Gun Rights As Protection Against Tyranny - Rasmussen Reports™

More