rosecarmel
Its my belief that the right to carry arms was presented as a way for citizens to protect themselves from tyrannical government- But from where I sit, it appears guns might be used to protect such a government- And are on "stand by"-
Those that were planning to abduct the 2 Democratic governors thought the same .. And view the Democrats as a threat ..
23 3The 'tyrannical government' was the British government. The American war of Independence was fought on the American side by what was basically a 'citizen army' built from local militia groups. The fledgling republic needed to legitimise the carrying of arms. I have no doubt that they were worried that Britain might try to regain its colony by military means. I doubt if the Founding Fathers envisaged civil war or gun carrying nutters massacring fellow citizens whose beliefs they didn't share.
Although our route to it has been different, I suspect that the bill currently going through parliament, should they think it expedient, legalises potential armed defence of our own government against its citizens. As in the US, we have a great many very angry citizens who are aching to demonstrate against the current regime and a government which is openly working to frame demonstrators as 'illegal' and dangerous to the state.