dksuddeth

On 2 August 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest, open elections. For years they had asked for state or Federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud -- forged ballots, secret ballot counts, and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies -- by the local political boss. They got no help.

These Americans' absolute refusal to knuckle-under had been hardened by service in World War II. Having fought to free other countries from murderous regimes, they rejected vicious abuse by their county government. These Americans had a choice. Their state's Constitution - Article 1, Section 26 - recorded their right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. Few "gun control" laws had been enacted.

http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm

For those that argue that only the government and law enforcement should have guns, or that the second amendment is intended to be a states right to maintain an armed militia, should open their minds and throw off their anit-gun/armed civilian notions and remember this lesson well.

The second amendment was intended to protect the INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms and, if necessary, overcome corrupt governments like that which was in Athens 60 years ago.

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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."