The sad state of the US people.

[steven787]

TheRealMafoo said:
it's funny how people look at the Constitution, and see different things.

When I see it telling the american people that you have the right to weapons for the purpose of uprising against an unjust government, I assume they meant to allow me the tools needed to get the job done.

I don't think they would want me to still have a musket. I think they would want me to have whatever is needed. I don't think nukes are needed, but missiles, tanks, automatic weapons... whatever we would need to replace the government.

The entire point was for government to realize that if they start removing out liberties, there were real consequences. I think it's obvious that today there aren't any.

 

The constitution wasn't written with that intention, if you look at the state constitutions (KY words it very well) or the wirtings of the time period they worded it more specifically, the state could revolt against the federal government and the people could hold arms for property protection.

Individuals were not intended to overthrow the government.  Why would a government legally allow itself to be overthrown.  If the individuals are revolting then they wouldn't care very much about the laws of the country the were revolting against.  That argument fails on both fronts.