The Second Amendment Doesn’t Protect Anything

By Donald Frame

By Donald Frame

The question was recently posed, “Does the Second Amendment Protect the Rest?” It’s a great question, and increasingly timely. My answer: of course not . . .

The 2A is a great thing, part of the Constitution of the United States, a wonderful document that is the flower of political writing. In it, those “certain inalienable rights” were expressed as never before in history.

The Declaration of Independence [above] was signed in 1776, and the Constitution was ratified in 1788. Between those two dates we had the Revolutionary War. Fighting began in 1775 at Concord, MA, and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

For seven years, We The People waged war “to dissolve the political bands” which connected us with England “and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them” People killed and were killed and fortunes were lost. Homes were destroyed and innocents died, as they always do in war.

In the end, We The People prevailed. We didn’t prevail because of the words on the paper. We won because the men and women that fought to give those words meaning were …read more

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