The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution serves six functions:
- It acknowledges the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as a preexisting right, i.e., existing prior to the ratification of the Constitution.
- The Amendment operates to forbid the government from “infringing” (tampering, usurping, violating) this intrinsic and inherent right.
3 It acts as a requirement — an obligation — that having just won a war for independence, a militia must be available and ready to defend against another invasion.
- It acts as an implied warning to the people to rely upon themselves, rather than the government, for self-protection and personal security.
- This amendment confirms the ability of each citizen to enforce their other rights, such as the rights to: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, be presumed innocent, be left alone, own property….
6) The Second Amendment functions to reinforce that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is an individual right, e.g., it doesn’t say the right of the state or federal government… it specifically says “…the right of the people….” Had it been contained in Articles I or IV, it would mean the government’s RKBA could not be infringed upon.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
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