2ND AMENDMENT CONTEXT: YOU CANNOT JUST SCREAM BAN GUNS

LETS PUT THE 2ND AMENDMENT INTO CONTEXT, NO LIBERAL DISCUSSES WHY WE HAVE IT.

>The gun control program that precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events that changed a situation of political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment.

>Furious at the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, Parliament in 1774 passed the Coercive Acts. The particular provisions of the Coercive Acts were offensive to Americans, but it was the possibility that the British might deploy the army to enforce them that primed many colonists for armed resistance. The Patriots of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved: "That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles." A South Carolina newspaper essay, reprinted in Virginia, urged that any law that had to be enforced by the military was necessarily illegitimate.

>The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, had forbidden town meetings from taking place more than once a year. When he dispatched the Redcoats to break up an illegal town meeting in Salem, 3000 armed Americans appeared in response, and the British retreated. Gage's aide John Andrews explained that everyone in the area aged 16 years or older owned a gun and plenty of gunpowder.

HERE IS THE KEY:
>***Military rule would be difficult to impose on an armed populace*** Gage had only 2,000 troops in Boston. There were thousands of armed men in Boston alone, and more in the surrounding area. One response to the problem was to deprive the Americans of gunpowder.

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Laws disarming people who have proven themselves to be a particular threat to public safety are not implicated by the 1774-76 experience. In contrast, laws that aim to disarm the public at large are precisely what turned a political argument into the American Revolution.

To the Americans of the Revolution and the Founding Era, the theory of some late-20th Century courts that the Second Amendment is a "collective right" and not an "individual right" might have seemed incomprehensible. The Americans owned guns individually, in their homes. They owned guns collectively, in their town armories and powder houses. They would not allow the British to confiscate their individual arms, nor their collective arms; and when the British tried to do both, the Revolution began. The Americans used their individual arms and their collective arms to fight against the confiscation of any arms. Americans fought to provide themselves a government that would never perpetrate the abuses that had provoked the Revolution.

Things weren't all that easy either after the revolution. Washington and the other founding fathers had a pretty hard time trying to keep the states united. Washington himself left after 2 terms because he became very unpopular, especially after the whiskey rebellion and his refusal to side with the French during the wars between Great Britain. It was only by chance we didn't become a divided nation before 1861 because many were focused on expanding out west and finding new homes, but once California was settled and new states were entering the Union there wasn't anymore avoiding it

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I just want people to understand the context of why the 2nd amendment was included in the bill of rights. It was HUGE. Think why its the 2nd, not the 10th, or 11th. 1st is freedom of speech and right after is right to bear arms. This wasn't just some benign thing, there was always purpose.

Increased gun control isn’t unconstitutional.

First, define "gun control" you are only allowed to have a single shot 17 caliber OR you cannot have 20mm auto cannons?

I think you need some education. See this post:

If it infringes on the right of US citizens to own militarily competitive firearms, it is.

Fuck off Wayne I will burn your trailer down with you in it

This, this is the entire point of the 2nd amendment, it keeps a government out of control in check by the population.

Dude, how can you read anything with that bright background?

Checked for shall not be infringed.

He pays children in the trailer park to read for him (and suck his dick)

trips of truth. 1776

- you are the faggot

see the pic, its related

This is a pretty comfy 2A thread

And you wouldnt have without the french. The french gave you your independence.

In fact it is according to the SCOTUS

nigger even we defeated the french armed with nothing but stick and stones

burgers won the moment they realized that winning a battle doesn't ensure victory, arming the populace does

This. The Brits tried to take our guns, this caused the war. They decided to never allow this to happen again, ensuring the population could keep the government in check by enshrining our right to own a gun into the constitution. If they try to take the right away, this is the SAME as the Brits who tried to take away the colonists guns which sparked the war. That was the tipping point. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

I get the principle of the pic but to compare a leftist soyboy to a Redcoat is very wrong as Redcoats were alpha as fuck.

No. The English would have steamrolled the colonists if France didnt help the colonists in america and threaten to invade England across the channel.
American independence is in its entirety owed to the French.

Its not an exact match, but I wouldnt say ALL redcoats were alpha. The culture then was a lot more proper & people had principles back then, globally we all seem to be stripped of that with the exception of some patriots & red pilled people. The red coats were just following orders, cucked by an overzealous king. A lot of them did not want to be there, their morale was devastated after the war.

>checked for truth

not at all friendo. The French didnt start the cause, they aided. A lot of French died for the cause, a lot of patriots died for the cause. It took both working together. We could also say that the British King over leveraging his country was the reason for the loss, but we all know it took a lot of factors together to cause the outcome. So no you cannot say it is owed entirely to the French or some other reason.

There's a deeper psychology at work here. The last two generations of Americans were deliberately raised without respect for the rule of law. They know they can't repeal the 2nd Amendment, yet, but they want to ban everything anyway. They want it ignored. You see the same thing with DACA and marijuana laws: they don't like the laws, but rather than respecting the process and their opposition, they want the laws to be ignored and their opposition is treated the way one treats a hostile foreigner, not a fellow countryman.

Contrast how they treat actual hostile foreigners. But I digress.

A generation of commie teachers have raised children to beg for anarcho-tyranny. They want a minority power in the government to simply be able to declare that certain laws won't be enforced or respected, even Constitutional ones, because it benefits them to do so now. No one has any concern for a generalized respect for the systems and process. An aspiring tyrant couldn't ask for a better subject population.

Fair point but I'm not just talking about the American revolution, I was also referring to the shit they were doing all over the world, they were BTFOing none-whites on multiple continents.

there were, but they were in severe debt, over stretched, it was the end of an era for the British, the end of the revolutionary war marked that time for the Brits. Then enter the eternal manlet

Exactly, and the only thing keeping them from that are the AMERICAN CITIZENS guns. Thats literally it. I know if we didnt have this right, things would look a hell of a lot different right now. We would be fucked and be powerless to do anything about it.

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Damn, I didn't know they had cameras back then, nice.

sad all the shill / slide threads prevail, yet one with facts & history to understand the current situation will be pruned. Absolute state of /pol