{"id":16960,"date":"2013-01-16T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16960"},"modified":"2013-01-16T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:38:28","slug":"erickson-real-purpose-of-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16960\/erickson-real-purpose-of-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Erickson: Real Purpose of the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that President Barack Obama has announced the most sweeping gun control measures in generations<\/a>, RedState\u2019s Erick Erickson reminds us of what the Second Amendment is really about<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In all the talk that has happened and will happen, the press and the general public seem willing to ignore the actual purpose of the second amendment.<\/p>\n

The amendment is not about sports. It is not about recreation. It is not about hunting. It is only partly about defending yourself from a criminal.<\/p>\n

The second amendment is about ensuring a \u201cfree state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

The 2nd Amendment, contrary to much of today\u2019s conversation, has just as much to do with the people protecting themselves from tyranny as it does burglars. That is why there is so little common ground about assault rifles \u2014 even charitably ignoring the fact that there really is no such thing. If the 2nd Amendment is to protect the citizenry from even their own government, then the citizenry should be able to be armed.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of arguments and bodies to suggest that we might, as a nation, need to rethink this. The Founders gave us that option. We can amend the Constitution.<\/p>\n

In doing so, we should keep in mind that in the past 100 years Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, China, and other governments have turned on their people at various times and, in doing so, restricted freedoms starting often with gun ownership. You may think a 30 round magazine is too big. Under the real purpose of the second amendment, a 30 round magazine might be too small.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Erickson is right.\u00a0 If it\u2019s true that times have changed, and the Founders\u2019 method of ensuring a free state is no longer dependent on individual access to weapons that would repel tyranny, then there is a mechanism to do that.\u00a0 It\u2019s not unilaterally mandating twenty-three executive actions<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s amending the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that President Barack Obama has announced the most sweeping gun control measures in generations, RedState\u2019s Erick Erickson reminds us of what the Second Amendment is really about: In all the talk that has happened and will happen, the press and the general public seem willing to ignore the actual purpose of the second amendment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3720,2818,2645,1103,220],"class_list":["post-16960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-control","tag-erick-erickson","tag-guns","tag-red-state","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16964,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions\/16964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}