There are three important things to remember about the Second Amendment. First, it doesn’t give people the right to own guns. Second, it is an implicit acknowledgement that the U.S. government is the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people. Third, the rationale for enacting the Second Amendment was to ensure that the American citizenry retained the means to violently resist tyranny by the federal government.
People’s rights come from God or nature. As Jefferson pointed out in the Declaration of Independence, the purpose of government is simply to protect people in their exercise of such fundamental, preexisting rights.
The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to expressly prohibit the federal government from taking away the fundamental, God-given, natural rights of the people.
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