<As well as providing for defense of the country from an outside attack, the second amendment provides a means for the citizenry to overthrow the government if it oversteps its bounds. I think the founding fathers had this in mind when writing the second amendment--after all they just finished a revolutionary war with their “former government.”

Not many people voice this opinion for fear of being labeled a “nut case” or “paranoid”.



...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,



--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.