Guys, need yr help. Maybe this is clearer to american members.
What people mean when they threat to use the 2nd Amendment
remedy? I know the Amendment is about protecting the rights
of the people to keep guns and all, but I don't get this "remedy" thing.
They mean they are going to shoot people?
Why would that be a remedy? Tks for any help.
I've never heard the "remedy" claim, but I've known and am related to people who have talked abstractly about armed uprisings against the government. Fortunately, they can't find a night when a favorite CIS or Law & Order program isn't on TV so they can coordinate the uprising.
There are some people who think we have the right to bear arms so that no government, not even our own, can make us do something we don't wanna do. I think the provision of a well-armed militia being essential to public safety refers to the fact that at the time the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written and enacted, a lot of US residents lived on the frontier where a militia of neighbors with their own weapons was the prime if not only protection against thieving "white men" and raiding Indians.
A militia of inexperienced kids with no military training and fat old men armed with hunting rifles and shotguns today would play hell going up against professional soldiers with tanks, artillery, aircraft, bombs and automatic weapons. Not to mention drones and smart bombs.
Most people who talk of armed action against our own government have never even seen dead people, much less a war. They're like the Southern "Fire-eaters" in 1860 that were encouraging the South to secede from the Union. They downplayed the risk that the "money-grubbing store clerks" up North would give up a day's profit to go to war against the South over secession. And if they did, the war would be short and a total victory for the South since any Southerner could whip 10 Yankees. One of these loudmouth propagandist claimed he would "drink all the blood spilt" in a war between the North and South.
Well, our Civil War ended once and for all the practice of slavery in this country and it also settled the debate over whether a state can lawfully secede from the Union--it can't. It also should have taught US citizens another major lesson: We must never again go to war against each other because we're too damn good at it. More Americans died in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 than in all of the other wars this country ever fought all put together.